CC Antya 15.42

Antya-līlā, Chapter 15, Text 42

উত্তর না পাঞা পুনঃ ভাবেন অন্তরে ।
‘এহ — কৃষ্ণদাসী, ভয়ে না কহে আমারে’ ॥ ৪২ ॥

uttara nā pāñā punaḥ bhāvena antare
‘eha — kṛṣṇa-dāsī, bhaye nā kahe āmāre’

Word by word

uttara — reply; nā — not; pāñā — getting; punaḥ — again; bhāvena — think; antare — within their minds; eha — these; kṛṣṇa-dāsī — maidservants of Kṛṣṇa; bhaye — out of fear; nā kahe — do not speak; āmāre — to us.

Translation

When they still received no reply, the gopīs thought, “These plants are all Kṛṣṇa’s maidservants, and out of fear they will not speak to us.’ ”