Gopalacampu 1.20.62

1.20.62

[30] atha kṛṣṇaḥ sa-smayam āha sma-na nagnā etāḥ pāthasi magnāḥ | tad idaṃ tu mayā parihasitam eva | dṛṣṭaṃ bhavadbhir duṣṭhu-prakṛtīnām ākṛti-mātra-suṣṭhutā-yutānām āsām anuṣṭhitam; yan madīyāny eva śastāni vastrāṇi vihārataḥ samasta-vyastatayā yatra tatra visrastāni | tāny etā daridrāṇāṃ kanyāḥ sphuṭam anyāyatayā paricitya ca vicitya paridadhānā, mādṛśas tu dṛśaḥ sakāśād gopanaṃ kāmayamānā bāḍhaṃ jalam evāvagāḍhāḥ | yāni khalv atisvacchānāṃ tigma-cchavi-kanyā-jalānām antar apracchannāny eva lakṣyante, yāny eva cāsāṃ jala-magna-pratyaṅga-lagnāni svarṇa-savarṇa-varṇāni varṇā iva nirvarṇyante | tasmāt plavanta eva bhavantaḥ pratyekam etāḥ kara-gṛhīta-karāḥ samānayantām |

Then Kṛṣṇa said with a smile: “These [girls] immersed in the water are not naked. This was only my joke. You have seen what was done by these whose nature is wicked though endowed with beauty in mere form; for my own fine garments, dropped here and there in playing, collectively and individually, have slipped away. Clearly recognizing and collecting them unjustly, wearing them, these daughters of paupers, wishing to hide from the sight of someone like me, have indeed plunged into the water. For they are seen quite unveiled within the waters of the daughter of the sun, which are exceedingly clear; and clinging to every limb of theirs immersed in the water, their colours, having the hue of gold, are observed like letters [in an inscription]. Therefore, swimming out, take hold of each of them by the hand and bring them back!”