Original
Sanskrit
Source: BhP_10.21.001
Speaker: śrī-śuka uvāca
itthaṃ śarat-svaccha-jalaṃ padmākara-sugandhinā / nyaviśad vāyunā vātaṃ sa -go-gopālako 'cyutaḥ
English translation
Śrī Śuka said: In this way Acyuta, accompanied by the cows and cowherd boys, entered the autumn forest, where the water was clear and the breeze carried the fragrance of lotus-filled lakes.
Original
Sanskrit
Source: BhP_10.21.002
kusumita-vanarāji-śuṣmi-bhṛṅga dvija-kula-ghuṣṭa-saraḥ-sarin-mahīdhram / madhupatir avagāhya cārayan gāḥ saha-paśu-pāla-balaś cukūja veṇum
English translation
Entering the forest, whose blossoming trees rang with intoxicated bees and whose lakes, rivers and mountains echoed with flocks of birds, the Lord of sweetness grazed the cows with Balarāma and the cowherd boys and began to play His flute.
Original
Sanskrit
Source: BhP_10.21.003
tad vraja-striya āśrutya veṇu-gītaṃ smarodayam / kāścit parokṣaṃ kṛṣṇasya sva-sakhībhyo 'nvavarṇayan
English translation
Hearing that flute-song awaken love, some of the women of Vraja privately began describing Kṛṣṇa to their intimate friends.
Original
Sanskrit
Source: BhP_10.21.004
tad varṇayitum ārabdhāḥ smarantyaḥ kṛṣṇa-ceṣṭitam / nāśakan smara-vegena vikṣipta-manaso nṛpa
English translation
O King, as they began describing Him and remembered Kṛṣṇa's movements, the force of love scattered their minds and they could not continue.
Original
Sanskrit
Source: BhP_10.21.005*
Witness note: Starred reading in the GRETIL source
barhāpīḍaṃ naṭa-vara-vapuḥ karṇayoḥ karṇikāraṃ / bibhrad vāsaḥ kanaka-kapiśaṃ vaijayantīṃ ca mālām randhrān veṇor adhara-sudhayāpūrayan gopa-vṛndair / vṛndāraṇyaṃ sva-pada-ramaṇaṃ prāviśad gīta-kīrtiḥ
English translation
Wearing a peacock-feather crown, the body of the finest dancer, karṇikāra flowers upon His ears, a golden-yellow garment and the Vaijayantī garland, Kṛṣṇa filled the holes of His flute with the nectar of His lips. His glory sung by the cowherd boys, He entered Vṛndāvana, made charming by His footprints.
Original
Sanskrit
Source: BhP_10.21.006
iti veṇu-ravaṃ rājan sarva-bhūta-manoharam / śrutvā vraja-striyaḥ sarvā varṇayantyo 'bhirebhire
English translation
O King, hearing that flute sound, which enchants every living being, all the women of Vraja embraced one another as they described it.
Original
Sanskrit
Source: BhP_10.21.007*
Witness note: Starred reading in the GRETIL source
Facsimile correction: Reading verified against the controlled Gita Press Sanskrit mūla
Speaker: śrī-gopya ūcuḥ
akṣaṇvatāṃ phalam idaṃ na paraṃ vidāmaḥ / sakhyaḥ paśūn anaviveśayator vayasyaiḥ vaktraṃ vrajeśa-sutayor anaveṇu-juṣṭaṃ / yair vā nipītam anurakta-kaṭākṣa-mokṣam
English translation
The gopīs said: Friends, we know no greater fulfillment for those who possess eyes than to drink the faces of Vraja's two princes as They enter the forest with Their friends, driving the animals before Them, holding flutes to Their lips and casting loving sidelong glances.
Original
Sanskrit
Source: BhP_10.21.008
cūta-pravāla-barha-stabakotpalābja mālānupṛkta-paridhāna-vicitra-veśau / madhye virejatur alaṃ paśu-pāla-goṣṭhyāṃ raṅge yathā naṭa-varau kvaca gāyamānau
English translation
Their unusual costumes mingled garlands of mango shoots, peacock feathers, flower clusters, blue lotuses and water lilies with Their garments. Singing here and there amid the gathering of cowherd boys, They shone like the finest actors upon a stage.
Original
Sanskrit
Source: BhP_10.21.009*
Witness note: Starred reading in the GRETIL source
gopyaḥ kim ācarad ayaṃ kuśalaṃ sma veṇur / dāmodarādhara-sudhām api gopikānām bhuṅkte svayaṃ yad avaśiṣṭa-rasaṃ hradinyo / hṛṣyat-tvaco 'śru mumucus taravo yathāryaḥ
English translation
Gopīs, what auspicious deed has this flute performed? It drinks by itself the nectar of Dāmodara's lips that truly belongs to us, leaving only a trace behind. The rivers tremble with joy and shed tears, while the trees, like noble elders, display ecstatic emotion.
Original
Sanskrit
Source: BhP_10.21.010*
Witness note: Starred reading in the GRETIL source
Facsimile correction: Reading verified against the controlled Gita Press Sanskrit mūla
vṛndāvanaṃ sakhi bhuvo vitanoti kīṛtiṃ / yad devakī-suta-padāmbuja-labdha-lakṣmi govinda-veṇum anu matta-mayūra-nṛtyaṃ / prekṣyādri-sānv-avaratānya-samasta-sattvam
English translation
Friend, Vṛndāvana spreads the earth's glory, for it has received the treasure of Devakī's son's lotus footprints. When Govinda plays His flute, intoxicated peacocks dance, and every other creature upon the mountain slopes becomes still and watches.
Original
Sanskrit
Source: BhP_10.21.011*
Witness note: Starred reading in the GRETIL source
Facsimile correction: Reading verified against the controlled Gita Press Sanskrit mūla
dhanyāḥ sma mūḍha-gatayo 'pi hariṇya etā / yā nanda-nandanam upātta-vicitra-veśam ākarṇya veṇu-raṇitaṃ saha-kṛṣṇa-sārāḥ / pūjāṃ dadhur viracitāṃ praṇayāvalokaiḥ
English translation
Though merely animals, these does are truly blessed. Hearing the flute of Nanda's beautifully adorned son, they approach with their black-deer mates and worship Him through lovingly fashioned glances.
Original
Sanskrit
Source: BhP_10.21.012*
Witness note: Starred reading in the GRETIL source
Facsimile correction: Reading verified against the controlled Gita Press Sanskrit mūla
kṛṣṇaṃ nirīkṣya vanitotsava-rūpa-śīlaṃ / śrutvā ca tat-kvaṇita-veṇu-vivikta-gītam devyo vimāna-gatayaḥ smara-nunna-sārā / bhraśyat-prasūna-kabarā mumuhur vinīvyaḥ
English translation
Seeing Kṛṣṇa, whose beauty and nature are a festival for women, and hearing the distinct song sounded by His flute, the goddesses traveling in celestial vehicles are pierced by love. Their flowers fall from their hair, their waistbands loosen, and they lose awareness.
Original
Sanskrit
Source: BhP_10.21.013*
Witness note: Starred reading in the GRETIL source
Facsimile correction: Reading verified against the controlled Gita Press Sanskrit mūla
gāvaś ca kṛṣṇa-mukha-nirgata-veṇu-gīta / pīyūṣam uttabhita-karṇa-puṭaiḥ pibantyaḥ śāvāḥ snuta-stana-payaḥ-kavalāḥ sma tasthur / govindam ātmani dṛśāśru-kalāḥ spṛśantyaḥ
English translation
The cows lift the cups of their ears and drink the nectar of flute-song flowing from Kṛṣṇa's mouth. Their calves stand still with mouthfuls of milk streaming from their mothers' udders, touching Govinda within their hearts through tear-filled eyes.
Original
Sanskrit
Source: BhP_10.21.014*
Witness note: Starred reading in the GRETIL source
Facsimile correction: Reading verified against the controlled Gita Press Sanskrit mūla
prāyo batāmba vihagā munayo vane 'smin / kṛṣṇekṣitaṃ tad-uditaṃ kala-veṇu-gītam āruhya ye druma-bhujān rucira-pravālān / śṛṇvanti mīlita-dṛśo vigatānya-vācaḥ
English translation
Mother, the birds in this forest must mostly be sages. They climb the trees' branches, bright with fresh shoots, and listen with closed eyes and all other speech silenced to the sweet flute-song uttered by Kṛṣṇa and filled with His glance.
Original
Sanskrit
Source: BhP_10.21.015*
Witness note: Starred reading in the GRETIL source
Facsimile correction: Reading verified against the controlled Gita Press Sanskrit mūla
nadyas tadā tad upadhārya mukunda-gītam / āvarta-lakṣita-manobhava-bhagna-vegāḥ āliṅgana-sthagitam ūrmi-bhujair murārer / gṛhṇanti pāda-yugalaṃ kamalopahārāḥ
English translation
When the rivers hear Mukunda's song, their currents break under love's influence and their whirlpools reveal their agitation. With wave-arms arrested in an embrace, they grasp Murāri's two feet and offer Him lotuses.
Original
Sanskrit
Source: BhP_10.21.016*
Witness note: Starred reading in the GRETIL source
Facsimile correction: Reading verified against the controlled Gita Press Sanskrit mūla
dṛṣṭvātape vraja-paśūn saha rāma-gopaiḥ / sañcārayantam anu veṇum udīrayantam prema-pravṛddha uditaḥ kusumāvalībhiḥ / sakhyur vyadhāt sva-vapuṣāmbuda ātapatram
English translation
Seeing Kṛṣṇa beneath the hot sun, grazing Vraja's animals with Rāma and the cowherd boys while continually playing His flute, a cloud swelled with love. Rising overhead with rows of flowers, it made its own body a parasol for its friend.
Original
Sanskrit
Source: BhP_10.21.017*
Witness note: Starred reading in the GRETIL source
Facsimile correction: Reading verified against the controlled Gita Press Sanskrit mūla
pūrṇāḥ pulindya urugāya-padābja-rāga / śrī-kuṅkumena dayitā-stana-maṇḍitena tad-darśana-smara-rujas tṛṇa-rūṣitena / limpantya ānana-kuceṣu jahus tad-ādhim
English translation
The Pulinda women attain complete fulfillment from the vermilion that colored the lotus feet of the widely praised Lord after first adorning His beloveds' breasts and then marking the grass. Seeing it awakens love's pain, but by smearing it upon their faces and breasts they cast off that torment.
Original
Sanskrit
Source: BhP_10.21.018*
Witness note: Starred reading in the GRETIL source
Facsimile correction: Reading verified against the controlled Gita Press Sanskrit mūla
hantāyam adrir abalā hari-dāsa-varyo / yad rāma-kṛṣṇa-caraṇa-sparaśa-pramodaḥ mānaṃ tanoti saha-go-gaṇayos tayor yat / pānīya-sūyavasa-kandara-kandamūlaiḥ
English translation
Oh, gentle friends, this mountain is the best of Hari's servants! Delighted by the touch of Rāma and Kṛṣṇa's feet, it honors Them and Their herds of cows with drinking water, tender grass, caves, fruits, roots and tubers.
Original
Sanskrit
Source: BhP_10.21.019*
Witness note: Starred reading in the GRETIL source
Facsimile correction: Reading verified against the controlled Gita Press Sanskrit mūla
gā gopakair anu-vanaṃ nayator udāra / veṇu-svanaiḥ kala-padais tanu-bhṛtsu sakhyaḥ aspandanaṃ gati-matāṃ pulakas taruṇāṃ / niryoga-pāśa-kṛta-lakṣaṇayor vicitram
English translation
Friends, how wondrous are the two brothers, distinguished by the ropes and straps used in tending the cows. As They lead the cows with the cowherd boys from forest to forest and play generous, sweetly measured flute-notes, moving creatures become motionless and the trees tremble in ecstasy.
Original
Sanskrit
Source: BhP_10.21.020
evaṃ-vidhā bhagavato yā vṛndāvana-cāriṇaḥ / varṇayantyo mitho gopyaḥ krīḍās tan-mayatāṃ yayuḥ
English translation
Describing to one another such pastimes of Bhagavān as He wandered through Vṛndāvana, the gopīs became completely absorbed in Him.