An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s3.425

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Draupadī warned her against using drugs, incantations, etc., which were used by wicked women, and said that she kept aloof from vanity and served the Pāndavas with devotion, etc. Formerly, in the palace of Yudhishthira at Indraprastha, food was daily given to 8,000 brahmans, 80,000 snātakas with thirty serving-maids assigned to each, 10,000 yatis; he had 100,000 well-dressed serving-maids with bracelets, etc., all skilled in singing and dancing; 100,000 maidservants who day and night used to feed guests; 100,000 horses, and 100,000 elephants. And it was Draupadī who had the supervision of all this; she knew the names and features of all the girls, and knew everything about them, and even about the cowherds and shepherds. She alone knew the income and expenditure of the king and what their whole wealth was, bearing hunger and thirst, and being the first to wake up and the last to go to bed (III, 233). Draupadī said that for women there is no god equal to the husband, as it is from him the wife obtains offspring, articles of enjoyment, fame, and heaven itself hereafter. In order to attract the heart of Krshna, Satyabhāmā ought to let him understand that she adored him with all her heart by promptly, when she saw him enter her chamber, offering him a seat and water to wash his feet; and even if he ordered a maidservant to do anything, she ought to get up and do it herself; not to blab of whatever he should speak before her; feed those that were dear to him, and keep herself aloof from those that were hostile to him; not to stay or converse in private even with her sons Pradyumna and Çāmba; and shun wicked women (III, 234). —§ 511: Then Krshna bade farewell to the Pāndavas and to Mārkandeya, etc., and called for Satyabhāmā. Satyabhāmā comforted Draupadī, saying that she would soon recover her ancient happiness, and relenting of Prativindhya, Çrutasoma, and Çrutakarman (her son by Arjuna), and Çatānīka (her son by Nakula), and Çrutasena (her son by Sahadeva), that they were well and skilled in weapons and, like Abhimanyu, delighted with staying at Dvāravatī, and were loved by Subhadrā, Pradyumna, Krshna, with his son Bhānu, etc., and her mother-in-law, and all the Andhakas and Vrishnis, with Rāma, etc. Then Satyabhāmā mounted the chariot of Krshna and they set out for his city (III, 235).