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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[ Canto 4, Ch. 3 ]
word  sva-nilayābhyāśe  indicates that they were passing right near her residential quarters. The dresses and bodily features of the wives of the heavenly denizens are very nicely described here. Their eyes moved; their earrings and other ornaments glittered and glared, their dresses were the nicest possible, and all of them had special lockets on their necklaces. Each woman was accompanied by her husband. Thus they looked so beautiful that  Satī ,  Dākṣāyaṇī , was impelled to dress similarly and go to the sacrifice with her husband. That is the natural inclination of a woman.
TEXT 8
सत्युवाच
प्रजापतेस्ते श्वशुरस्य साम्प्रतं
निर्यापितो यज्ञमहोत्सवः किल ।
वयं च तत्राभिसराम वाम ते
यद्यर्थितामी विबुधा व्रजन्ति हि ॥ ८ ॥
saty uvāca
prajāpates te śvaśurasya sāmpratami
niryāpito yajña-mahotsavaḥ kila
vayani ca tatrābhisarāma vāma te
yady arthitāmī vibudhā vrajanti hi
satī uvāca — Satī  said;  prajāpateḥ —of  Dākṣa ;  te —your;  śvaśurasya —of your father-in-law;  sāmpratam —nowadays;  niryāpitaḥ —has been started;  yajña-mahotsavaḥ —a great sacrifice;  kila —certainly;  vayam —we;  ca —and;  tatra —there;  abhisarāma —may go;  vāma —O my dear Lord Śiva;  te —your;  yadi —if;  arthitā —desire;  amī —these;  vibudhāḥ —demigods;  vrajanti —are going;  hi —because.
TRANSLATION
Satī  said: My dear Lord Śiva, your father-in-law is now executing great sacrifices, and all the demigods, having been invited by him, are going there. If you desire, we may also go.
PURPORT
Satī  knew of the tension between her father and her husband, but still she expressed to her husband,  Lord Śiva , that since such sacrifices were going on at her father's house and so many demigods were going, she also desired to go. But she could not express her willingness directly, and so