श्रीशुक उवाच अथोद्धवो निशम्यैवं कृष्णदर्शनलालसा: । सान्त्वयन् प्रियसन्देशैर्गोपीरिदमभाषत ॥ २२ ॥
śrī-śuka uvāca athoddhavo niśamyaivaṁ kṛṣṇa-darśana-lālasāḥ sāntvayan priya-sandeśair gopīr idam abhāṣata
- śrī-śukaḥ uvāca
- Śukadeva Gosvāmī said
- atha
- then
- uddhavaḥ
- Uddhava
- niśamya
- having heard
- evam
- thus
- kṛṣṇa-darśana
- after the sight of Kṛṣṇa
- lālasāḥ
- who were hankering
- sāntvayan
- pacifying
- priya
- of their beloved
- sandeśaiḥ
- with the messages
- gopīḥ
- to the cowherd girls
- idam
- this
- abhāṣata
- he said
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Having heard this, Uddhava then tried to pacify the gopīs, who were most eager to see Lord Kṛṣṇa. He thus began relating to them the message of their beloved.