śrī-draupady uvāca
he vaidarbhy acyuto bhadre
he jāmbavati kauśale
he satyabhāme kālindi
śaibye rohiṇi lakṣmaṇe
he kṛṣṇa-patnya etan no
brūte vo bhagavān svayam
upayeme yathā lokam
anukurvan sva-māyayā
sri-draupadi uvaca -- Sri Draupadi said; he vaidarbhi -- O daughter of Vaidarbha (Rukmini); acyutah -- Lord Krishna; bhadre -- O Bhadra; he jambavati -- O daughter of Jambavan; kausale -- O Nagnajiti; he satyabhame -- O Satyabhama; kalindi -- O Kalindi; saibye -- O Mitravinda; rohini -- O Rohini (one of the sixteen thousand queens married after the killing of Narakasura); lakshmane -- O Lakshmana; he krishna-patnyah -- O (other) wives of Krishna; etat -- this; nah -- to us; brute -- please speak; vah -- you; bhagavan -- the Supreme Lord; svayam -- Himself; upayeme -- married; yatha -- how; lokam -- ordinary society; anukurvan -- imitating; sva-mayaya -- by His own mystic power.
Sri Draupadi said: O Vaidarbhi, Bhadra and Jambavati, O Kausala, Satyabhama and Kalindi, O Saibya, Rohini, Lakshmana and other wives of Lord Krishna, please tell me how the Supreme Lord Acyuta, imitating the ways of this world by His mystic power, came to marry each of you.
The Rohini addressed here by Draupadi is not Lord Balarama's mother but another Rohini, the foremost of the sixteen thousand princesses Lord Krishna rescued from the prison of Bhaumasura. Draupadi turns to her as the representative of all sixteen thousand, and as a virtual equal to Sri Krishna's eight chief queens.
