CC Adi 10.137
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 137
- mādhavī-devī—śikhi-māhitira bhaginī
- śrī-rādhāra dāsī-madhye yāṅra nāma gaṇi
SYNONYMS
mādhavī-devī — Mādhavīdevī; śikhi-māhitira — of Śikhi Māhiti; bhaginī — sister; śrī-rādhāra — of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī; dāsī-madhye — amongst the maidservants; yāṅra — whose; nāma — name; gaṇi — count.
TRANSLATION
Mādhavīdevī, the seventeenth of the prominent devotees, was the younger sister of Śikhi Māhiti. She is considered to have formerly been a maidservant of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī.
PURPORT
In the Antya-līlā of Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Chapter Two, verses 104-106, there is a description of Mādhavīdevī. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu considered her one of the maidservants of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. Within this world, Caitanya Mahāprabhu had three and a half very confidential devotees. The three were Svarūpa Gosāñi, Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya and Śikhi Māhiti, and Śikhi Māhiti’s sister, Mādhavīdevī, being a woman, was considered the half. Thus it is known that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had three and a half confidential devotees.