त्रीणि गुल्मान्यतीयाय तिस्र: कक्षाश्च सद्विज: । विप्रोऽगम्यान्धकवृष्णीनां गृहेष्वच्युतधर्मिणाम् ॥ १६ ॥ गृहं द्वयष्टसहस्राणां महिषीणां हरेर्द्विज: । विवेशैकतमं श्रीमद् ब्रह्मानन्दं गतो यथा ॥ १७ ॥
trīṇi gulmāny atīyāya tisraḥ kakṣāś ca sa-dvijaḥ vipro ’gamyāndhaka-vṛṣṇīnāṁ gṛheṣv acyuta-dharmiṇām gṛhaṁ dvy-aṣṭa-sahasrāṇāṁ mahiṣīṇāṁ harer dvijaḥ viveśaikatamaṁ śrīmad brahmānandaṁ gato yathā
- trīṇi
- three
- gulmāni
- contingents of guards
- atīyāya
- passing
- tisraḥ
- three
- kakṣāḥ
- gateways
- ca
- and
- sa-dvijaḥ
- accompanied by brāhmaṇas
- vipraḥ
- the learned brāhmaṇa
- agamya
- impassable
- andhaka-vṛṣṇīnām
- of the Andhakas and Vṛṣṇis
- gṛheṣu
- between the houses
- acyuta
- Lord Kṛṣṇa
- dharmiṇām
- who follow faithfully
- gṛham
- residence
- dvi
- two
- aṣṭa
- times eight
- sahasrāṇām
- thousands
- mahiṣīṇām
- of the queens
- hareḥ
- of Lord Kṛṣṇa
- dvijaḥ
- the brāhmaṇa
- viveśa
- entered
- ekatamam
- one of them
- śrī-mat
- opulent
- brahma-ānandam
- the bliss of impersonal liberation
- gataḥ
- attaining
- yathā
- as if
The learned brāhmaṇa, joined by some local brāhmaṇas, passed three guard stations and went through three gateways, and then he walked by the homes of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s faithful devotees, the Andhakas and Vṛṣṇis, which ordinarily no one could do. He then entered one of the opulent palaces belonging to Lord Hari’s sixteen thousand queens, and when he did so he felt as if he were attaining the bliss of liberation.