Samkalpakalpadruma 14.9

14.9

api smaratha naḥ sakhyaḥ svānām arthaṃ4 cikīrṣayā |
gatāṃś cirāyitān śatrupakṣakṣapaṇacetasaḥ ||216|| 5
mayi bhaktir hi bhūtānām amṛtatvāya kalpate |
diṣṭyā yad āsīn matsneho bhavatīnāṃ madāpanaḥ ||217||6
yas tātkālikaśāntyarthe tathāpi jñānam ādiśat |
āhūś cety7ādike padye prārthitas tābhir anyathā ||218||

"Do you, O female companions, remember us, who went away wishing to act for the sake of our kin / and were delayed, our minds set on destroying the opposing party of enemies?
For devotion unto Me brings about immortality for living beings; / by fortune your affection for Me has arisen, which grants Me unto you."
Who, nonetheless, taught knowledge for the sake of their temporary composure, / yet was prayed to otherwise by them in the verse beginning "āhuś ca...";