This my companion is my maid, she will go wherever I shall go. She is Sharmishtha, the daughter of the Asura king, Vrishaparva.
इयं च मे सखी दासी यत्राहं तत्र गामिनी। दुहिता दानवेन्द्रस्य शर्मिष्ठा वृषपर्वणः॥