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Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi · Chapter 14

Enduring Love

Unit 14 of 1514.114.233233 source entries

14.1

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स्थायि-भावो’त्र शृङ्गारे कथ्यते मधुरा रतिः ॥१॥

sthāyi-bhāvo’tra śṛṅgāre kathyate madhurā ratiḥ ||1||

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The enduring emotion in romantic rasa is here described as sweet attraction.

14.2

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सा, यथा गोविन्द-विलासे- कालाहि-वक्त्र-विलसद्-रसनाग्रजाग्रद्- गोपी-दृग्-अञ्चल-चमत्कृति-बिद्ध-मर्मा । शर्मादिशत्व् अरुण-घूर्णित-लोचनान्तः- सञ्चार-चूर्णित-सती-हृदयो मुकुन्दः ॥२॥

sā, yathā govinda-vilāse- kālāhi-vaktra-vilasad-rasanāgrajāgrad- gopī-dṛg-añcala-camatkṛti-biddha-marmā | śarmādiśatv aruṇa-ghūrṇita-locanāntaḥ- sañcāra-cūrṇita-satī-hṛdayo mukundaḥ ||2||

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That attraction, as in Govinda-vilāsa: Mukunda's vital core is pierced by the wonder of the corner of the gopī's eye, alert like the tip of a tongue playing within a black serpent's mouth. May he bestow happiness, for the movement of his reddish, rolling glance crushes the hearts of faithful women.

14.3

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यथा वा दान-केलि-कौमुद्याम् (३०)- गोवर्धन-गिरिम् उपेत्य कटाक्ष-बाणान् कर्ण-स्फुरन्-मणि-शिलोपरि सङ्क्षुवाना । का भ्रू-धनुर्-धुवन-सूचित-लुञ्चनेयꣳ व्यग्रीकरोत्य् अहह माम् अपि सम्भ्रमेण ॥३॥

yathā vā dāna-keli-kaumudyām (30)- govardhana-girim upetya kaṭākṣa-bāṇān karṇa-sphuran-maṇi-śilopari saṅkṣuvānā | kā bhrū-dhanur-dhuvana-sūcita-luñcaneyaṁ vyagrīkaroty ahaha mām api sambhrameṇa ||3||

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Or, as in Dāna-keli-kaumudī 30: Who is this woman approaching Govardhana, sharpening the arrows of her sidelong glances upon the jeweled stone shining at her ear and announcing plunder by the movement of her bow-like eyebrows? Alas, she throws even me into agitated distraction.

14.4

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अभियोगाद् विषयतः सम्बन्धाद् अभिमानतः । सा तदीय-विशेषेभ्य उपमातः स्वभावतः । रतिर् आविर्भवेद् एषाम् उत्तमत्वꣳ यथोत्तरम् ॥४॥

abhiyogād viṣayataḥ sambandhād abhimānataḥ | sā tadīya-viśeṣebhya upamātaḥ svabhāvataḥ | ratir āvirbhaved eṣām uttamatvaṁ yathottaram ||4||

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Attraction may manifest from personal appeal, sense objects, relationship, resolute identification, special things belonging to the beloved, comparison, or natural disposition. Each successive cause produces a more excellent form.

14.5

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तत्र अभियोगः- अभियोगो भवेद् भाव-व्यक्तिः स्वेन परेण च ॥५॥

tatra abhiyogaḥ- abhiyogo bhaved bhāva-vyaktiḥ svena pareṇa ca ||5||

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Personal appeal: Personal appeal is the expression of emotion either by oneself or by another.

14.6

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तत्र स्वेनाभियोगाद्, यथा- मद्-अधर-विलुठद्-विलोचनान्तꣳ मृदुल-लता-नव-पल्लवꣳ दशन्तम् । सखि हरिम् अवलोक्य भानुजाया- स्तट-विपिने स्फुटद्-अन्तरास्मि जाता ॥६॥

tatra svenābhiyogād, yathā- mad-adhara-viluṭhad-vilocanāntaṁ mṛdula-latā-nava-pallavaṁ daśantam | sakhi harim avalokya bhānujāyā- staṭa-vipine sphuṭad-antarāsmi jātā ||6||

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From one's own appeal: Friend, seeing Hari in the riverside forest upon Yamunā's bank, the corner of his eye rolling over my lips as he bit a fresh and tender vine shoot, I have become split open within.

14.7

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यथा वा- कुवलय-विपिनान्य् असौ सृजन्ती दिशि दिशि लोचन-चापलाच् चलाक्षी । हरति तरणिजा-तटे पुरः का सुबल बलान् मम चित्त-चञ्चरीकम् ॥७॥

yathā vā- kuvalaya-vipināny asau sṛjantī diśi diśi locana-cāpalāc calākṣī | harati taraṇijā-taṭe puraḥ kā subala balān mama citta-cañcarīkam ||7||

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Or, for example: Subala, who is this restless-eyed woman before me on the sun-god's daughter's bank? Through the play of her eyes she creates blue-lotus forests in every direction and forcibly steals the bee of my heart.

14.8

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परेणाभियोगाद्, यथा- त्वदीयम् आपीय गतावलम्बा सꣳवाद-माध्वीकम् अतीव साध्वी । आघूर्णमाना व्रज-राज-सूनो नीवीꣳ स्खलन्तीꣳ न विदाञ्चकार ॥८॥

pareṇābhiyogād, yathā- tvadīyam āpīya gatāvalambā saṁvāda-mādhvīkam atīva sādhvī | āghūrṇamānā vraja-rāja-sūno nīvīṁ skhalantīṁ na vidāñcakāra ||8||

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From another's appeal: Son of Vraja's king, drinking the honey-wine of news about you, that exceedingly virtuous girl lost all support. As she reeled, she did not even notice her waist-knot slipping.

14.9

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अथ विषयाः- शब्द-स्पर्शादयः पञ्च विषयाः किल विश्रुताः ॥९॥

atha viṣayāḥ- śabda-sparśādayaḥ pañca viṣayāḥ kila viśrutāḥ ||9||

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Now the sense objects: The five sense objects are famously sound, touch, form, taste, and fragrance.

14.10

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तत्र शब्दाद्, यथा विदग्ध-माधवे (१.३४)- नादः कदम्ब-विटपान्तरतो विसर्पन् को नाम कर्ण-पदवीम् अविशन् न जाने । हा हा कुलीन-गृहिणी-गण-गर्हणीयाꣳ येनाद्य काम् अपि दशाꣳ सखि लम्भितासि ॥१०॥

tatra śabdād, yathā vidagdha-mādhave (1.34)- nādaḥ kadamba-viṭapāntarato visarpan ko nāma karṇa-padavīm aviśan na jāne | hā hā kulīna-gṛhiṇī-gaṇa-garhaṇīyāṁ yenādya kām api daśāṁ sakhi lambhitāsi ||10||

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From sound, as in Vidagdha-mādhava 1.34: I do not know what sound, spreading from within the branches of the kadamba tree, entered the path of your ear. Alas, friend, it has brought you today into some condition condemned by assemblies of respectable wives.

14.11

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यथा वा, तत्रैव (२.२)- एकस्य श्रुतम् एव लुम्पति मतिꣳ कृष्णेति नामाक्षरꣳ सान्द्रोन्माद-परम्पराम् अपनयत्य् अन्यस्य वꣳशी-कलः । एष स्निग्ध-घन-द्युतिर् मनसि मे लग्ना सकृद्-वीक्षणात् कष्टꣳ धिक् पुरुष-त्रये रतिर् अभून् मन्ये मृतिः श्रेयसी ॥११॥

yathā vā, tatraiva (2.2)- ekasya śrutam eva lumpati matiṁ kṛṣṇeti nāmākṣaraṁ sāndronmāda-paramparām apanayaty anyasya vaṁśī-kalaḥ | eṣa snigdha-ghana-dyutir manasi me lagnā sakṛd-vīkṣaṇāt kaṣṭaṁ dhik puruṣa-traye ratir abhūn manye mṛtiḥ śreyasī ||11||

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Or, as in the same work, 2.2: Merely hearing the syllables of the name 'Kṛṣṇa' steals my intelligence; another man's delicate flute music removes every boundary in a succession of dense madness; and a third, radiant like a soft rain cloud, entered my heart from a single sight. Alas, shame! I seem to have fallen in love with three men. Death would be better.

14.12

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स्पर्शाद्, यथा- व्रजꣳ मुष्टि-ग्राह्ये तमसि निगिरत्य् अङ्गम् इह मे सखि स्पर्शꣳ दैवाद् यद्-अवधि परꣳ कस्यचिद् अगात् । गृहीता जागर्या तद्-अवधि सदैवाङ्गज-गणैः स-शङ्कैर् या पश्य क्षणम् अपि न साद्याप्य् उपरता ॥१२॥

sparśād, yathā- vrajaṁ muṣṭi-grāhye tamasi nigiraty aṅgam iha me sakhi sparśaṁ daivād yad-avadhi paraṁ kasyacid agāt | gṛhītā jāgaryā tad-avadhi sadaivāṅgaja-gaṇaiḥ sa-śaṅkair yā paśya kṣaṇam api na sādyāpy uparatā ||12||

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From touch: Friend, as fist-thick darkness swallowed Vraja, by fate my body received the touch of someone. From that moment, sleeplessness seized me, together with suspicious hosts born of Love, and see - even now it has not ceased for a moment.

14.13

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रूपाद्, यथा हꣳसदूते (७७)- कृताकृष्टि-क्रीडꣳ किम् अपि तव रूपꣳ मम सखी सकृद् दृष्ट्वा दूराद् अहित-हित-बोधोज्झित-मतिः । हता सेयꣳ प्रेमानलम् अनु विशन्ती सरभसꣳ पतङ्गीवात्मानꣳ मुरहर मुहुर् दाहितवती ॥१३॥

rūpād, yathā haṁsadūte (77)- kṛtākṛṣṭi-krīḍaṁ kim api tava rūpaṁ mama sakhī sakṛd dṛṣṭvā dūrād ahita-hita-bodhojjhita-matiḥ | hatā seyaṁ premānalam anu viśantī sarabhasaṁ pataṅgīvātmānaṁ murahara muhur dāhitavatī ||13||

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From form, as in Haṁsadūta 77: Destroyer of Mura, my friend once saw from afar your indescribable form playing the game of attraction. Her intelligence abandoned awareness of benefit and harm, and the ruined girl rushed into the fire of love like a moth, repeatedly burning herself.

14.14

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रसाद्, यथा- पुलकयति यद् अङ्गꣳ सेवते गात्र-भङ्गꣳ वहति हृदि तरङ्गꣳ सद्य एवाद्य मुग्धा । तद् अघदमन-वक्त्रोद्गीर्ण-ताम्बूलम् अल्पꣳ स्फुटम् अविदितम् आस्ये न्यस्तम् अस्यास् त्वयालि ॥१४॥

rasād, yathā- pulakayati yad aṅgaṁ sevate gātra-bhaṅgaṁ vahati hṛdi taraṅgaṁ sadya evādya mugdhā | tad aghadamana-vaktrodgīrṇa-tāmbūlam alpaṁ sphuṭam aviditam āsye nyastam asyās tvayāli ||14||

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From taste: Friend, you clearly and unknowingly placed in this innocent girl's mouth a little betel cast from Agha's destroyer's mouth. At once it made her body erupt in horripilation, her limbs bend, and a wave rise within her heart.

14.15

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गन्धाद्, यथा- विभ्राजन्ते क्व सखि सुखिनः शाखिनो मोहनास् ते येषाꣳ पुष्पैर् इयम् अनुपमा वैजयन्ती कृतास्ति । पश्याकृष्ट-भ्रमर-पटला यात-यामापि कामꣳ या भूयोभिर् मम परिमलैः स्तम्भयत्य् अद्य चेतः ॥१५॥

gandhād, yathā- vibhrājante kva sakhi sukhinaḥ śākhino mohanās te yeṣāṁ puṣpair iyam anupamā vaijayantī kṛtāsti | paśyākṛṣṭa-bhramara-paṭalā yāta-yāmāpi kāmaṁ yā bhūyobhir mama parimalaiḥ stambhayaty adya cetaḥ ||15||

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From fragrance: Friend, where do those fortunate and enchanting trees shine, from whose flowers this incomparable Vaijayantī garland was made? Look! Though worn for a full watch and surrounded by swarms of attracted bees, its abundant fragrances still bring my heart to a standstill today.

14.16

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लोकोत्तर-पदार्थानाꣳ प्रभावः को’प्य् अनर्गलः । रतिꣳ तद्-विषयꣳ चासौ भासयेत् तूर्णम् एकदा ॥१६॥

lokottara-padārthānāṁ prabhāvaḥ ko’py anargalaḥ | ratiṁ tad-viṣayaṁ cāsau bhāsayet tūrṇam ekadā ||16||

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Extraordinary objects possess a certain unrestricted power. At a single moment, that power can swiftly illuminate attraction directed toward them.

14.17

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अथ सम्बन्धः- सम्बन्धः कुल-रूपादि-सामग्री-गौरवꣳ भवेत् ॥१७॥

atha sambandhaḥ- sambandhaḥ kula-rūpādi-sāmagrī-gauravaṁ bhavet ||17||

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Now relationship: Relationship means reverence for the entire excellence of the beloved's lineage, form, and other attributes.

14.18

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ततो यथा- वीर्यꣳ कन्दुकिताद्रि-रूपम् अखिल-क्ष्मा-मण्डली-मण्डनꣳ जन्माभीर-पुरन्दरस्य भवने पारे-परार्धꣳ गुणाः । लीला क्वापि जगच्-चमत्कृति-करीत्य् एतस्य लोकोत्तरा वृत्तिर् वेणु-धरस्य दुर्मुखि धृतिꣳ कस्याः क्षणꣳ रक्षति ॥१८॥

tato yathā- vīryaṁ kandukitādri-rūpam akhila-kṣmā-maṇḍalī-maṇḍanaṁ janmābhīra-purandarasya bhavane pāre-parārdhaṁ guṇāḥ | līlā kvāpi jagac-camatkṛti-karīty etasya lokottarā vṛttir veṇu-dharasya durmukhi dhṛtiṁ kasyāḥ kṣaṇaṁ rakṣati ||18||

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From that, for example: His strength turns a mountain into a ball; his form ornaments the whole circle of the earth; his birth took place in the house of the cowherd king; his virtues extend beyond innumerable universes; and his play somewhere astonishes the world. Ill-faced girl, whose composure can the extraordinary conduct of this flute-bearer preserve for even a moment?

14.19

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अथ अभिमानः- सन्तु रम्याणि भूरीणि प्रार्थ्यꣳ स्याद् इदम् एव मे । इति यो निर्णयो धीरैर् अभिमानः स उच्यते ॥१९॥

atha abhimānaḥ- santu ramyāṇi bhūrīṇi prārthyaṁ syād idam eva me | iti yo nirṇayo dhīrair abhimānaḥ sa ucyate ||19||

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Now resolute identification: The firm conclusion, 'Let there be many lovely objects, yet this alone is what I desire,' is called resolute identification by the wise.

14.20

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ततो यथा- स्फुरन्तु बहवः क्षितौ मधुरिमोर्मि-धौरेयका विदग्ध-मणयो गुणावलि-पतिꣳ-वराभिर् वृताः । न यस्य शिखि-चन्द्रꣳ शिरसि नैव वेणुर् मुखे न धातु-रचना तनौ सखि तृणाय मन्ये न तम् ॥२०॥

tato yathā- sphurantu bahavaḥ kṣitau madhurimormi-dhaureyakā vidagdha-maṇayo guṇāvali-patiṁ-varābhir vṛtāḥ | na yasya śikhi-candraṁ śirasi naiva veṇur mukhe na dhātu-racanā tanau sakhi tṛṇāya manye na tam ||20||

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From that, for example: Let many crest-jewels of clever lovers shine upon the earth, leaders in waves of sweetness and surrounded by the finest hosts of virtues. Friend, if a man does not bear a peacock-feather moon upon his head, a flute at his mouth, and patterns of mineral pigment upon his body, I value him no more than a blade of grass.

14.21

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अथ तदीय-विशेषाः- तदीयानाꣳ विशेषाः स्युः पद-गोष्ठ-प्रियादयः ॥२१॥

atha tadīya-viśeṣāḥ- tadīyānāṁ viśeṣāḥ syuḥ pada-goṣṭha-priyādayaḥ ||21||

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Now special things belonging to him: Special things belonging to the beloved include his footprints, cowherd settlement, dear associates, and others.

14.22

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तत्र पदानि- पदान्य् अत्र पदाङ्काः स्युः ॥२२॥

tatra padāni- padāny atra padāṅkāḥ syuḥ ||22||

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First, the footprints: The word 'feet' here means the marks of his feet.

14.23

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ततो यथा- स्फुरति सखि रथाङ्गाम्भोज-दम्भोलि-भाजाꣳ तट-भुवि विशदेयꣳ कस्य पङ्क्तिः पदानाम् । हृदयम् अघृण-घूर्णाघ्रातम् उद्घाटयन्ती मम तनु-लतिकायाꣳ कुड्मलꣳ या तनोति ॥२३॥

tato yathā- sphurati sakhi rathāṅgāmbhoja-dambholi-bhājāṁ taṭa-bhuvi viśadeyaṁ kasya paṅktiḥ padānām | hṛdayam aghṛṇa-ghūrṇāghrātam udghāṭayantī mama tanu-latikāyāṁ kuḍmalaṁ yā tanoti ||23||

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From them, for example: Friend, whose clear row of footprints shines upon the riverbank, bearing the wheel, lotus, thunderbolt, and other marks? It opens my heart, seized by a merciless whirl, and produces buds upon the vine of my body.

14.24

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अथ गोष्ठम्- गोष्ठꣳ वृन्दावनाश्रितम् ॥२४॥

atha goṣṭham- goṣṭhaṁ vṛndāvanāśritam ||24||

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Now the cowherd settlement: The cowherd settlement is the land centered upon Vṛndāvana.

14.25

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ततो, यथा- मदयति हृदयꣳ सखि व्रजो’यꣳ मधुरिमभिः क्वचिद् अप्य् अदृष्ट-पूर्वैः । इह विहरति को’पि नागरेन्दरस् त्रिभुवन-मण्डल-मूर्तिर् इत्य् अवेहि ॥२५॥

tato, yathā- madayati hṛdayaṁ sakhi vrajo’yaṁ madhurimabhiḥ kvacid apy adṛṣṭa-pūrvaiḥ | iha viharati ko’pi nāgarendaras tribhuvana-maṇḍala-mūrtir ity avehi ||25||

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From it, for example: Friend, this Vraja intoxicates my heart with sweetness never seen anywhere before. Know that some prince of sophisticated lovers, the embodied form of the three worlds, sports here.

14.26

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अथ प्रिय-जनः- प्रौढ-भावानुबिद्धो यस् तस्य प्रिय-जनो’त्र सः ॥२६॥

atha priya-janaḥ- prauḍha-bhāvānubiddho yas tasya priya-jano’tra saḥ ||26||

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Now a dear person: A person thoroughly suffused with mature emotion for him is considered his dear person here.

14.27

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ततो, यथा- गुरुभिर् अपि निषिद्धा ताम् अहꣳ यावद् अक्ष्णोः पदम् अनयम् अनन्त-श्रेयसाꣳ सद्म राधाम् । तृषितम् इव मनो मे प्रेक्षते तन्वि तावद् दिशि दिशि विहरन्तीꣳ श्यामलाꣳ शालभञ्जीम् ॥२७॥

tato, yathā- gurubhir api niṣiddhā tām ahaṁ yāvad akṣṇoḥ padam anayam ananta-śreyasāṁ sadma rādhām | tṛṣitam iva mano me prekṣate tanvi tāvad diśi diśi viharantīṁ śyāmalāṁ śālabhañjīm ||27||

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From such a person, for example: Though my elders forbade me, I brought Rādhā, the abode of limitless auspiciousness, within the range of my eyes. Slender girl, from that moment my thirsty mind beholds in every direction a dark śālabhañjikā figure wandering about.

14.28

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अथ उपमा- यथा कथञ्चिद् अप्य् अस्य सादृश्यम् उपमोदिता ॥२८॥

atha upamā- yathā kathañcid apy asya sādṛśyam upamoditā ||28||

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Now comparison: Any resemblance to him, however it may arise, is called comparison.

14.29

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ततो, यथा- नवाम्बुधर-माधुरी स्फुरति मूर्तिर् उर्वी-तले कृशोदरि दृशोर् इयात् पथि किम् ईदृशो वा युवा । पुरः सुमुखि गोपतेः सदै सन्निविष्टस्य मे पितुर् वितनुते नटो यम् अनुकृत्य नृत्य-क्रमम् ॥२९॥

tato, yathā- navāmbudhara-mādhurī sphurati mūrtir urvī-tale kṛśodari dṛśor iyāt pathi kim īdṛśo vā yuvā | puraḥ sumukhi gopateḥ sadai sanniviṣṭasya me pitur vitanute naṭo yam anukṛtya nṛtya-kramam ||29||

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From it, for example: Slender-waisted girl, has sweetness in the form of a fresh rain cloud appeared upon the earth, or has a young man such as this entered the path of my eyes? Lovely-faced girl, an actor standing before my father in the cowherd king's assembly always extends his dance by imitating that person.

14.30

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यथा वा- स्फुरत्य् एष प्रेयान् इव नव-घनस् तस्य सुभगे शिखण्डीनाꣳ श्रेणीꣳ तुलयति सुरेन्द्रायुधम् इदम् । असौ वासो लक्ष्मीर् इव विहरते विद्युद् इति सा निशम्योदस्राक्षी त्वयि निहित-बुद्धिर् निवसति ॥३०॥

yathā vā- sphuraty eṣa preyān iva nava-ghanas tasya subhage śikhaṇḍīnāṁ śreṇīṁ tulayati surendrāyudham idam | asau vāso lakṣmīr iva viharate vidyud iti sā niśamyodasrākṣī tvayi nihita-buddhir nivasati ||30||

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Or, for example: Fortunate girl, this fresh cloud shines like the beloved; Indra's bow resembles his line of peacock feathers; and lightning sports like the splendor of his garment. Hearing this, she remains with her mind fixed upon you and her eyes streaming tears.

14.31

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अथ स्वभावः- भैर् हेत्व्-अनपेक्षी तु स्वभावो’र्थः प्रकीर्तितः । निसर्गश् च स्वरूपꣳ चेत्य् एषो’पि भवति द्विधा ॥३१॥

atha svabhāvaḥ- bhair hetv-anapekṣī tu svabhāvo’rthaḥ prakīrtitaḥ | nisargaś ca svarūpaṁ cety eṣo’pi bhavati dvidhā ||31||

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Now natural disposition: An object that does not depend upon external causes is celebrated as natural disposition. It is of two kinds, ingrained nature and essential nature.

14.32

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अत्र निसर्गः- निसर्गः सुदृढाभ्यास-जन्यः सꣳस्कर उच्यते । तद्-उद्बोधस्य हेतुः स्याद् गुण-रूप-श्रुतिर् मनाक् ॥३२॥

atra nisargaḥ- nisargaḥ sudṛḍhābhyāsa-janyaḥ saṁskara ucyate | tad-udbodhasya hetuḥ syād guṇa-rūpa-śrutir manāk ||32||

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Ingrained nature: Ingrained nature is the disposition produced by deeply established practice. Even a slight hearing of the beloved's qualities or form can awaken it.

14.33

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ततो, यथा- स तर्जतु बताग्रजस् त्यजतु माꣳ सुहृन्-मण्डलः पिता किल विलज्जताꣳ घन-दृग्-अम्बुर् अम्बास्तु मे । मनः सखि समीहते श्रुत-गुण-श्रियꣳ सर्वथा तम् एव यदु-पुङ्गवꣳ न तु कदापि चैद्यꣳ नृपम् ॥३३॥

tato, yathā- sa tarjatu batāgrajas tyajatu māṁ suhṛn-maṇḍalaḥ pitā kila vilajjatāṁ ghana-dṛg-ambur ambāstu me | manaḥ sakhi samīhate śruta-guṇa-śriyaṁ sarvathā tam eva yadu-puṅgavaṁ na tu kadāpi caidyaṁ nṛpam ||33||

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From it, for example: Let my elder brother rebuke me, let my circle of friends abandon me, let my father be ashamed, and let my mother shed dense tears. Friend, my mind desires in every way that foremost Yadu whose glorious virtues I have heard, and never King Caidya.

14.34

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यथा वा- असुन्दरः सुन्दर-शेखरो वा गुणैर् विहीनो गुणिनाꣳ वरो वा । द्वेषी मयि स्यात् करुणाम्बुधिर् वा श्यामः स एवाद्य गतिर् ममायम् ॥३४॥

yathā vā- asundaraḥ sundara-śekharo vā guṇair vihīno guṇināṁ varo vā | dveṣī mayi syāt karuṇāmbudhir vā śyāmaḥ sa evādya gatir mamāyam ||34||

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Or, for example: Whether he is ugly or the crown of beauty, devoid of qualities or foremost among the virtuous, hostile toward me or an ocean of compassion, that same dark one alone is my refuge today.

14.35

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अथ स्वरूपम्- अजन्यस् तु स्वतः-सिद्धः स्वरूपꣳ भाव इष्यते । एतत् तु कृष्ण-ललनोभय-निष्ठतया त्रिधा ॥३५॥

atha svarūpam- ajanyas tu svataḥ-siddhaḥ svarūpaṁ bhāva iṣyate | etat tu kṛṣṇa-lalanobhaya-niṣṭhatayā tridhā ||35||

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Now essential nature: A self-established emotion that has not been externally produced is accepted as essential nature. According to whether it rests in Kṛṣṇa, the young woman, or both, it is threefold.

14.36

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अथ कृष्ण-निष्ठम्- कृष्ण-निष्ठꣳ स्वरूपꣳ स्याद् अदैत्यैः सुगमꣳ जनैः ॥३६॥

atha kṛṣṇa-niṣṭham- kṛṣṇa-niṣṭhaṁ svarūpaṁ syād adaityaiḥ sugamaṁ janaiḥ ||36||

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Essential nature centered upon Kṛṣṇa: Essential nature centered upon Kṛṣṇa is readily perceived by persons free from envy.

14.37

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ततो, यथा- इयꣳ व्यक्तिर् गोपी न भवति पुरः किन्तु कुतुकी हरिर् नारी-वेशो यद् अखिल-सुर-स्त्रीर् धुवति नः । जगन्-नेत्र-श्रेणी-तिमिर-हरणायाम्बर-मणिꣳ विना कस्यान्यस्य प्रिय-सखि भवेद् औपयिकता ॥३७॥

tato, yathā- iyaṁ vyaktir gopī na bhavati puraḥ kintu kutukī harir nārī-veśo yad akhila-sura-strīr dhuvati naḥ | jagan-netra-śreṇī-timira-haraṇāyāmbara-maṇiṁ vinā kasyānyasya priya-sakhi bhaved aupayikatā ||37||

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From it, for example: The figure before us is not a gopī; it is playful Hari in a woman's dress, for he agitates all the heavenly women. Dear friend, who other than the sun jewel could be fit to remove the darkness from the rows of the world's eyes?

14.38

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अथ ललना-निष्ठम्- स्वरूपꣳ ललना-निष्ठꣳ स्वयम् उद्बुद्धताꣳ व्रजेत् । अदृष्टे’प्य् अश्रुते’प्य् उच्चैः कृष्णे कुर्याद् द्रुतꣳ रतिम् ॥३८॥

atha lalanā-niṣṭham- svarūpaṁ lalanā-niṣṭhaṁ svayam udbuddhatāṁ vrajet | adṛṣṭe’py aśrute’py uccaiḥ kṛṣṇe kuryād drutaṁ ratim ||38||

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Essential nature centered upon the young woman: This nature awakens by itself and swiftly produces deep attraction for Kṛṣṇa even when he has neither been seen nor heard about.

14.39

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ततो, यथा- जिहीते यः कक्षाꣳ क्वचिद् अलम् अदृष्टाश्रुत-चर- त्रिलोक्याम् अस्तीति क्षणम् अपि न सम्भावन-मयीम् । घन-श्यामꣳ पीताम्बरम् अहह सङ्कल्पयद् अमुꣳ जनꣳ कञ्चिद् गोष्ठे सखि मम वृथा दीर्यति मनः ॥३९॥

tato, yathā- jihīte yaḥ kakṣāṁ kvacid alam adṛṣṭāśruta-cara- trilokyām astīti kṣaṇam api na sambhāvana-mayīm | ghana-śyāmaṁ pītāmbaram ahaha saṅkalpayad amuṁ janaṁ kañcid goṣṭhe sakhi mama vṛthā dīryati manaḥ ||39||

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From it, for example: Friend, nowhere in the three worlds has anyone ever seen or heard of a person who enters the smallest possibility of being such as this. Yet imagining some dark-cloud-colored man in yellow garments within the cowherd settlement, my mind uselessly breaks apart.

14.40

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अथ उभय-निष्ठम्- तत् स्याद् उभय-निष्ठꣳ यत् स्वरूपꣳ कृष्ण-सुभ्रुवोः ॥४०॥

atha ubhaya-niṣṭham- tat syād ubhaya-niṣṭhaṁ yat svarūpaṁ kṛṣṇa-subhruvoḥ ||40||

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Essential nature centered upon both: Essential nature that rests in both Kṛṣṇa and the beautiful-browed woman is centered upon both.

14.41

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ततो, यथा ललित-माधवे (२.१२)- सहचरि हरिर् एष ब्रह्म-वेशꣳ प्रपन्नः किम् अयम् इतरथा मे विद्रवत्य् अन्तरात्मा । शशधर-मणि-वेदी स्वेद-धाराꣳ प्रसूते न किल कुमुद-बन्धोः कौमुदीम् अन्तरेण ॥४१॥

tato, yathā lalita-mādhave (2.12)- sahacari harir eṣa brahma-veśaṁ prapannaḥ kim ayam itarathā me vidravaty antarātmā | śaśadhara-maṇi-vedī sveda-dhārāṁ prasūte na kila kumuda-bandhoḥ kaumudīm antareṇa ||41||

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From it, as in Lalita-mādhava 2.12: Companion, this must be Hari dressed as a brāhmaṇa. Otherwise, why does my inner self melt? A platform made of moonstone never produces a stream of moisture without the moon's light.

14.42

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प्रोक्ता अत्राभियोगाद्या विलासाधिक्य-हेतवे । रतिः स्वभावजैव स्यात् प्रायो गोकुल-सुभ्रुवाम् ॥४२॥

proktā atrābhiyogādyā vilāsādhikya-hetave | ratiḥ svabhāvajaiva syāt prāyo gokula-subhruvām ||42||

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The causes beginning with personal appeal have been described to account for the abundance of playful variation. The attraction of Gokula's beautiful-browed women generally arises from natural disposition alone.

14.43

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साधारणी निगदिता समञ्जसासौ समर्था च । कुब्जादिषु महिषीषु च गोकुल-देवीष्ण्ड् च क्रमतः ॥४३॥

sādhāraṇī nigaditā samañjasāsau samarthā ca | kubjādiṣu mahiṣīṣu ca gokula-devīṣṇḍ ca kramataḥ ||43||

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Attraction is successively called common in Kubjā and similar women, congruous in the queens, and fully capable in the goddesses of Gokula.

14.44

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मणिवच्-चिन्तामणिवत्-कौस्तुभ-मणिवत् त्रिधाभिमता । नातिसुलभेयम् अभितः सुदुर्लभा स्याद् अनन्य-लभ्या च ॥४४॥

maṇivac-cintāmaṇivat-kaustubha-maṇivat tridhābhimatā | nātisulabheyam abhitaḥ sudurlabhā syād ananya-labhyā ca ||44||

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These three are compared respectively to an ordinary jewel, a wish-fulfilling jewel, and the Kaustubha jewel. The first is not excessively difficult to obtain, the second is extremely rare, and the third is attainable by no other.

14.45

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तत्र साधारणी- नातिसान्द्रा हरेः प्रायः साक्षाद् दर्शन-सम्भवा । सम्भोगेच्छा-निदानेयꣳ रतिः साधारणी मता ॥४५॥

tatra sādhāraṇī- nātisāndrā hareḥ prāyaḥ sākṣād darśana-sambhavā | sambhogecchā-nidāneyaṁ ratiḥ sādhāraṇī matā ||45||

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Common attraction: Common attraction is generally not very deep, arises from directly seeing Hari, and has the desire for union as its cause.

14.46

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यथा श्री-दशमे (१०.४८.९)- सहोष्यताम् इह प्रेष्ठ दिनानि कतिचिन् मया । रमस्व नोत्सहे त्यक्तुꣳ सङ्गꣳ ते’म्बुरुहेक्षण ॥४६॥

yathā śrī-daśame (10.48.9)- sahoṣyatām iha preṣṭha dināni katicin mayā | ramasva notsahe tyaktuṁ saṅgaṁ te’mburuhekṣaṇa ||46||

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As in Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.48.9: Dearest lotus-eyed one, stay here with me for a few days and enjoy. I cannot bear to abandon your company.

14.47

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असान्द्रत्वाद् रतेर् अस्याः सम्भोगेच्छा विभिद्यते । एतस्या ह्रासतो ह्रासस् तद्-धेतुत्वाद् रतेर् अपि ॥४७॥

asāndratvād rater asyāḥ sambhogecchā vibhidyate | etasyā hrāsato hrāsas tad-dhetutvād rater api ||47||

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Because this attraction lacks density, the desire for union remains separate from it. When that desire diminishes, the attraction also diminishes because the desire is its cause.

14.48

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अथ समञ्जसा- पत्नी-भावाभिमानात्मा गुणादि-श्रवणादिजा । क्वचिद् भेदित-सम्भोग-तृष्णा सान्द्रा समञ्जसा ॥४८॥

atha samañjasā- patnī-bhāvābhimānātmā guṇādi-śravaṇādijā | kvacid bhedita-sambhoga-tṛṣṇā sāndrā samañjasā ||48||

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Now congruous attraction: Congruous attraction consists of identification with the role of wife, arises from hearing the beloved's qualities and similar causes, is deep, and yet sometimes remains distinct from thirst for union.

14.49

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यथा तत्रैव (१०.५२.३८)- का त्वा मुकुन्द महती कुल-शील-रूप- विद्या-वयो-द्रविण-धामभिर् आत्म-तुल्यम् । धीरा पतिꣳ कुलवती न वृणीत कन्या काले नृ-सिꣳह नर-लोक-मनो-’भिरामम् ॥४९॥

yathā tatraiva (10.52.38)- kā tvā mukunda mahatī kula-śīla-rūpa- vidyā-vayo-draviṇa-dhāmabhir ātma-tulyam | dhīrā patiṁ kulavatī na vṛṇīta kanyā kāle nṛ-siṁha nara-loka-mano-’bhirāmam ||49||

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As in Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.52.38: Mukunda, what noble, steady, and marriageable princess would not choose you at the proper time as her husband, when you equal her in lineage, character, beauty, learning, age, wealth, and influence, lion among men, and delight the minds of humankind?

14.50

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समञ्जसातः सम्भोग-स्पृहाया भिन्नता यदा । तदा तद्-उत्थितैर् भावैर् वश्यता दुष्करा हरिः ॥५०॥

samañjasātaḥ sambhoga-spṛhāyā bhinnatā yadā | tadā tad-utthitair bhāvair vaśyatā duṣkarā hariḥ ||50||

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When thirst for union remains distinct from congruous attraction, Hari is difficult to bring under control through the emotions arising from that attraction.

14.51

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तथा हि तत्रैव (१०.६१.४)- स्मायावलोक-लव-दर्शित-भाव-हारि- भ्रू-मण्डल-प्रहित-सौरत-मन्त्र-शौण्डैः । पत्न्यस् तु षोडश-सहस्रम् अनङ्ग-बाणैर् यस्येन्द्रियꣳ विमथितुꣳ करणैर् न शेकुः ॥५१॥

tathā hi tatraiva (10.61.4)- smāyāvaloka-lava-darśita-bhāva-hāri- bhrū-maṇḍala-prahita-saurata-mantra-śauṇḍaiḥ | patnyas tu ṣoḍaśa-sahasram anaṅga-bāṇair yasyendriyaṁ vimathituṁ karaṇair na śekuḥ ||51||

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Thus, as in the same work, 10.61.4: His sixteen thousand wives could not disturb his senses with the arrows of Love, though they were expert in amorous mantras sent by the movements of their eyebrows and stole the heart through feelings revealed by the slightest smiling glance.

14.52

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अथ समर्था- कꣳचिद् विशेषम् आयन्त्या सम्भोगेच्छा ययाभितः । रत्या तादात्म्यम् आपन्ना सा समर्थेति भण्यते ॥५२॥

atha samarthā- kaṁcid viśeṣam āyantyā sambhogecchā yayābhitaḥ | ratyā tādātmyam āpannā sā samartheti bhaṇyate ||52||

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Now fully capable attraction: Attraction in which the desire for union acquires a certain distinctive character and becomes completely identified with the attraction itself is called fully capable.

14.53

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स्व-स्वरूपात् तदीयाद् वा जाता यत्-किꣳचिद्-अन्वयात् । समर्था सर्व-विस्मारि-गन्धा सान्द्रतमा मता ॥५३॥

sva-svarūpāt tadīyād vā jātā yat-kiṁcid-anvayāt | samarthā sarva-vismāri-gandhā sāndratamā matā ||53||

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Whether arising from its own essential nature or from some slight connection with something belonging to him, fully capable attraction is considered the most concentrated and carries a fragrance that makes everything else forgotten.

14.54

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यथा- प्रेक्ष्याशेषे जगति मधुराꣳ स्वाꣳ वधूꣳ शङ्कया ते तस्याः पार्श्वे गुरुभिर् अभितस् त्वत्-प्रसङ्गो न्यवारि । श्रुत्वा दूरे तद् अपि भवतः सा तुला-कोटि-नादꣳ हा कृष्णेत्य् अश्रुत-चरम् अपि व्याहरन्त्य् उन्मदासीत् ॥५४॥

yathā- prekṣyāśeṣe jagati madhurāṁ svāṁ vadhūṁ śaṅkayā te tasyāḥ pārśve gurubhir abhitas tvat-prasaṅgo nyavāri | śrutvā dūre tad api bhavataḥ sā tulā-koṭi-nādaṁ hā kṛṣṇety aśruta-caram api vyāharanty unmadāsīt ||54||

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For example: Fearing that she would mistake every sweet object in the world for her own beloved, her elders completely forbade any mention of you near her. Yet hearing from afar the sound of your balance scale, though she had never heard it before, she cried, 'Ah, Kṛṣṇa!' and became mad.

14.55

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सर्वाद्भुत-विलासोर्मि-चमत्कार-कर-श्रियः । सम्भोगेच्छा-विशेषो’स्या रतेर् जातु न भिद्यते । इत्य् अस्याꣳ कृष्ण-सौख्यार्थम् एव केवलम् उद्यमः ॥५५॥

sarvādbhuta-vilāsormi-camatkāra-kara-śriyaḥ | sambhogecchā-viśeṣo’syā rater jātu na bhidyate | ity asyāṁ kṛṣṇa-saukhyārtham eva kevalam udyamaḥ ||55||

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In fully capable attraction, the special desire for union, whose beauty produces the wonder of waves of every astonishing play, is never separate from the attraction itself. Therefore all endeavor within it is solely for Kṛṣṇa's happiness.

14.56

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पूर्वस्याꣳ स्व-सुखायापि कदाचित् तत्र सम्भवेत् ॥५६॥

pūrvasyāṁ sva-sukhāyāpi kadācit tatra sambhavet ||56||

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In the preceding, congruous attraction, endeavor may sometimes also be for one's own happiness.

14.57

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इयम् एव रतिः प्रौढा महाभाव-दशाꣳ व्रजेत् । या मृग्या स्याद् विमुक्तानाꣳ भक्तानाꣳ च वरीयसाम् ॥५७॥

iyam eva ratiḥ prauḍhā mahābhāva-daśāṁ vrajet | yā mṛgyā syād vimuktānāṁ bhaktānāṁ ca varīyasām ||57||

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This very attraction, when mature, reaches the state of mahābhāva, which is sought by liberated souls and the most exalted devotees.

14.58

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यथा श्री-दशमे (१०.४७.५८)- एताः परꣳ तनु-भृतो भुवि गोप-वध्वो गोविन्द एव निखिलात्मनि रूढ-भावाः । वाञ्छन्ति यद् भव-भियो मुनयो वयꣳ च किꣳ ब्रह्म-जन्मभिर् अनन्त-कथारसस्य ॥५८॥

yathā śrī-daśame (10.47.58)- etāḥ paraṁ tanu-bhṛto bhuvi gopa-vadhvo govinda eva nikhilātmani rūḍha-bhāvāḥ | vāñchanti yad bhava-bhiyo munayo vayaṁ ca kiṁ brahma-janmabhir ananta-kathārasasya ||58||

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As in Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.47.58: Among embodied beings upon the earth, these cowherd women alone have attained perfection, for mature love for Govinda, the Soul of all, is firmly established within them. Sages who fear worldly existence and we ourselves desire that love. What use are births as Brahmā for one who has taste for the endless Lord's narrations?

14.59

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स्याद् दृढेयꣳ रतिः प्रेमा प्रोद्यन् स्नेहः क्रमाद् अयम् । स्यान् मानः प्रणयो रागो’नुरागो भाव इत्य् अपि ॥५९॥

syād dṛḍheyaṁ ratiḥ premā prodyan snehaḥ kramād ayam | syān mānaḥ praṇayo rāgo’nurāgo bhāva ity api ||59||

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When this attraction becomes firm it is love. As it progressively develops, it becomes affection, loving resentment, intimacy, passion, ever-new attachment, and finally bhāva.

14.60

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बीजम् इक्षुः स च रसः स गुडः खण्ड एव सः । स शर्करा सिता सा च सा यथा स्यात् सितोपला ॥६०॥

bījam ikṣuḥ sa ca rasaḥ sa guḍaḥ khaṇḍa eva saḥ | sa śarkarā sitā sā ca sā yathā syāt sitopalā ||60||

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The progression is like a seed becoming sugarcane, sugarcane becoming juice, juice becoming molasses, then raw sugar, refined sugar, white sugar, and finally rock candy.

14.61

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अतः प्रेम-विलासाः स्युर् भावाः स्नेहादयस् तु षट् । प्रायो व्यवह्रियन्ते’मी प्रेम-शब्देन सूरिभिः ॥६१॥

ataḥ prema-vilāsāḥ syur bhāvāḥ snehādayas tu ṣaṭ | prāyo vyavahriyante’mī prema-śabdena sūribhiḥ ||61||

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Thus the six states beginning with affection are expressions of love. Learned authorities generally refer to all of them by the single word love.

14.62

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यस्या यादृश-जातीयः कृष्णे प्रेमाभ्युदञ्चति । तस्याꣳ तादृश-जातीयः स कृष्णस्याप्य् उदीयते ॥६२॥

yasyā yādṛśa-jātīyaḥ kṛṣṇe premābhyudañcati | tasyāṁ tādṛśa-jātīyaḥ sa kṛṣṇasyāpy udīyate ||62||

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Whatever particular kind of love for Kṛṣṇa arises in a woman, love of that same kind for her arises within Kṛṣṇa as well.

14.63

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तत्र प्रेमा- सर्वथा ध्वꣳस-रहितꣳ सत्य् अपि ध्वꣳस-कारणे । यद्-भाव-बन्धनꣳ यूनोः स प्रेमा परिकीर्तितः ॥६३॥

tatra premā- sarvathā dhvaṁsa-rahitaṁ saty api dhvaṁsa-kāraṇe | yad-bhāva-bandhanaṁ yūnoḥ sa premā parikīrtitaḥ ||63||

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Love: The emotional bond between the young lovers that remains wholly indestructible even when causes for destruction are present is celebrated as love.

14.64

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यथा- शपे तुभ्यꣳ धर्म-स्थिति-मन्यु-सरन्त्या सखि मया विशुद्धाम् उग्राभिर् मुहुर् अपि निरस्तो भणितिभिः । स मुग्धे श्यामात्मा त्यजति न हि मे वर्त्म बत माꣳ जगारापद्-घोरा विरचयतु शास्तिꣳ गृह-पतिः ॥६४॥

yathā- śape tubhyaṁ dharma-sthiti-manyu-sarantyā sakhi mayā viśuddhām ugrābhir muhur api nirasto bhaṇitibhiḥ | sa mugdhe śyāmātmā tyajati na hi me vartma bata māṁ jagārāpad-ghorā viracayatu śāstiṁ gṛha-patiḥ ||64||

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For example: Friend, I swear to you by the current of anger that preserves dharma: I repeatedly drove away that pure, innocent dark one with fierce words, yet he does not abandon my path. Now let the master of the house impose a dreadful punishment upon me, the cause of this calamity.

14.65

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यथा वा- राधायाः सखि सद्-गुणैर् अनुदिनꣳ रूपानुरागादिभिः सान्द्राꣳ लब्धवतोर् अपि व्यसनिताꣳ व्याक्षिप्त-कान्तान्तरैः । प्राप क्वापि परस्परोपरि ययोर् न म्लानताꣳ यस् तयो- स्तꣳ चन्द्रावलि-चन्द्रकाभरणयोः को वेत्ति भाव-क्रमम् ॥६५॥

yathā vā- rādhāyāḥ sakhi sad-guṇair anudinaṁ rūpānurāgādibhiḥ sāndrāṁ labdhavator api vyasanitāṁ vyākṣipta-kāntāntaraiḥ | prāpa kvāpi parasparopari yayor na mlānatāṁ yas tayo- staṁ candrāvali-candrakābharaṇayoḥ ko vetti bhāva-kramam ||65||

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Or, for example: Friend, each day the good qualities of Rādhā, her beauty, attachment, and more, made his absorption dense, even as other beloveds distracted him. Yet their feeling for one another never withered anywhere. Who can understand the progression of emotion between Candrāvalī and the moon-crested Kṛṣṇa?

14.66

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स त्रिधा कथ्यते प्रौढ-मध्य-मन्द-प्रभेदतः ॥६६॥

sa tridhā kathyate prauḍha-madhya-manda-prabhedataḥ ||66||

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Love is described as threefold: mature, intermediate, and mild.

14.67

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तत्र प्रौढः- विलम्बादिभिर् अज्ञात-चित्त-वृत्तौ प्रिये जने । इतर-क्लेश-कारी यः स प्रेमा प्रौढ उच्यते ॥६७॥

tatra prauḍhaḥ- vilambādibhir ajñāta-citta-vṛttau priye jane | itara-kleśa-kārī yaḥ sa premā prauḍha ucyate ||67||

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Mature love: When delay or another circumstance makes the beloved's state of mind unknown and thereby causes the other lover distress, that love is called mature.

14.68

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यथा- गत्वा ब्रूहि निकुञ्ज-सद्मनि सखे खिन्नाꣳ मम प्रेयसीꣳ मा कालात्ययम् आकलय्य कमले मय्य् अप्रतीतिꣳ कृथाः । दुष्टꣳ दानवम् अत्र गोकुल-शिरः-शूलꣳ चिकित्सन्न् अहꣳ द्राग् एष प्रणयेन पल्लव-मयीꣳ लब्धो’स्मि शय्याꣳ तव ॥६८॥

yathā- gatvā brūhi nikuñja-sadmani sakhe khinnāṁ mama preyasīṁ mā kālātyayam ākalayya kamale mayy apratītiṁ kṛthāḥ | duṣṭaṁ dānavam atra gokula-śiraḥ-śūlaṁ cikitsann ahaṁ drāg eṣa praṇayena pallava-mayīṁ labdho’smi śayyāṁ tava ||68||

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For example: Friend, go to the bower dwelling and tell my distressed beloved, 'Lotus girl, do not lose trust in me because time has passed. I am treating a wicked demon here who is a thorn in Gokula's head. Through love I shall quickly reach your bed of fresh leaves.'

14.69

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अथ मध्यः- इतरानुभवापेक्षाꣳ सहते यः स मध्यमः ॥६९॥

atha madhyaḥ- itarānubhavāpekṣāṁ sahate yaḥ sa madhyamaḥ ||69||

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Intermediate love: Love that can tolerate consideration for another lover is intermediate.

14.70

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यथा- सर्वारम्भ-मनोहराꣳ सपदि मे चन्द्रावलीꣳ विन्दतो रङ्गः शारद-शर्वरी-समुचितः पर्याप्तिम् एवाययौ । ताꣳ कन्दर्प-चमू-चमत्कृति-कर-क्रीडोर्मि-किर्मीरिताꣳ राधाꣳ हन्त तथापि चित्तम् अधुना साक्षान् ममापेक्षते ॥७०॥

yathā- sarvārambha-manoharāṁ sapadi me candrāvalīṁ vindato raṅgaḥ śārada-śarvarī-samucitaḥ paryāptim evāyayau | tāṁ kandarpa-camū-camatkṛti-kara-krīḍormi-kirmīritāṁ rādhāṁ hanta tathāpi cittam adhunā sākṣān mamāpekṣate ||70||

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For example: Upon immediately meeting Candrāvalī, enchanting in every beginning of play, my delight reached the completeness suited to an autumn night. Yet even now my heart directly longs for Rādhā, mottled by waves of play that astonish Love's army.

14.71

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अथ मन्दः- सदा परिचितत्वादेः करोत्य् आत्यन्तिकात् तु यः । नैवोपेक्षाꣳ न चापेक्षाꣳ स प्रेमा मन्द उच्यते ॥७१॥

atha mandaḥ- sadā paricitatvādeḥ karoty ātyantikāt tu yaḥ | naivopekṣāṁ na cāpekṣāṁ sa premā manda ucyate ||71||

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Mild love: Because of constant familiarity or similar causes, love that produces neither complete neglect nor intense expectation is called mild.

14.72

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यथा- अनुनीय रूढ-मानाम् आनय भामाꣳ सखीम् अशोकलताम् । भवति प्रेमवतीनाꣳ मनाग् उपेक्षापि दोषाय ॥७२॥

yathā- anunīya rūḍha-mānām ānaya bhāmāṁ sakhīm aśokalatām | bhavati premavatīnāṁ manāg upekṣāpi doṣāya ||72||

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For example: Conciliate your companion Bhāmā, whose jealous anger has become deeply established, and bring her to the aśoka vine. Among loving women, even slight neglect becomes a fault.

14.73

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अथवा- प्रौढः प्रेमा स यत्र स्याद् विश्लेषस्यासहिष्णुता ॥७३॥

athavā- prauḍhaḥ premā sa yatra syād viśleṣasyāsahiṣṇutā ||73||

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Alternatively, mature love is that in which separation cannot be tolerated.

14.74

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यथा उद्धव-सन्देशे (५०)- निर्माय त्वꣳ वितर फलकम् हारि कꣳसारि-मूर्त्या वारꣳ वारꣳ दिशसि यदि माꣳ मान-निर्वाहनाय । यत् पश्यन्ती भवन-कुहरे रुद्ध-कर्णान्तराहꣳ साहꣳकारा प्रिय-सखि सुखम् यापयिष्यामि यामम् ॥७४॥

yathā uddhava-sandeśe (50)- nirmāya tvaṁ vitara phalakam hāri kaṁsāri-mūrtyā vāraṁ vāraṁ diśasi yadi māṁ māna-nirvāhanāya | yat paśyantī bhavana-kuhare ruddha-karṇāntarāhaṁ sāhaṁkārā priya-sakhi sukham yāpayiṣyāmi yāmam ||74||

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As in Uddhava-sandeśa 50: Dear friend, if you repeatedly instruct me to maintain jealous anger, then make and give me a panel bearing the enchanting form of Kaṁsa's enemy. Gazing upon it in the inner chamber with the openings of my ears sealed, I shall proudly and happily pass the watch.

14.75

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कृच्छ्रात् सहिष्णुता यत्र स तु मध्यम उच्यते ॥७५॥

kṛcchrāt sahiṣṇutā yatra sa tu madhyama ucyate ||75||

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Love in which separation can be tolerated only with difficulty is called intermediate.

14.76

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यथा- अवितथम् असौ किꣳ द्राघीयान् गमिष्यति वासरः सुमुखि स निशारम्भः किꣳवा समेष्यति मङ्गलः । स्मित-मुख-शशी गो-धूलिभिः करम्बित-कुन्तलः क्षपयति दृशाम् आर्तिꣳ यत्र व्रजेश्वर-नन्दनः ॥७६॥

yathā- avitatham asau kiṁ drāghīyān gamiṣyati vāsaraḥ sumukhi sa niśārambhaḥ kiṁvā sameṣyati maṅgalaḥ | smita-mukha-śaśī go-dhūlibhiḥ karambita-kuntalaḥ kṣapayati dṛśām ārtiṁ yatra vrajeśvara-nandanaḥ ||76||

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For example: Lovely-faced girl, will this long day truly pass? Will the auspicious beginning of night ever arrive, when the son of Vraja's king, his moonlike face smiling and his curls mixed with the dust of the cows, removes the pain of our eyes?

14.77

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स मन्दः कथितो यत्र भवेत् कुत्रापि विस्मृतिः ॥७७॥

sa mandaḥ kathito yatra bhavet kutrāpi vismṛtiḥ ||77||

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Love in which forgetfulness can sometimes occur is described as mild.

14.78

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यथा- प्रतिपक्ष-जनेर्ष्यया न मे स्मृतिर् आसीद् वन-माल्य-गुम्फने । सखि किꣳ करवै गवाꣳ पुरो घन-हम्बा-ध्वनिर् एष जृम्भते ॥७८॥

yathā- pratipakṣa-janerṣyayā na me smṛtir āsīd vana-mālya-gumphane | sakhi kiṁ karavai gavāṁ puro ghana-hambā-dhvanir eṣa jṛmbhate ||78||

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For example: Because of jealousy toward the opposing party, I forgot myself while stringing the forest garland. Friend, what shall I do? Before the cows a dense sound of lowing is now swelling.

14.79

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अथ स्नेहः- आरुह्य परमाꣳ काष्ठाꣳ प्रेमा चिद्-दीप-दीपनः । हृदयꣳ द्रावयन्न् एष स्नेह इत्य् अभिधीयते । अत्रोदिते भवेज् जातु न तृप्तिर् दर्शनादिषु ॥७९॥

atha snehaḥ- āruhya paramāṁ kāṣṭhāṁ premā cid-dīpa-dīpanaḥ | hṛdayaṁ drāvayann eṣa sneha ity abhidhīyate | atrodite bhavej jātu na tṛptir darśanādiṣu ||79||

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Now affection: Love that reaches its supreme limit, kindles the lamp of consciousness, and melts the heart is called affection. When it arises, no satisfaction can ever be obtained from seeing the beloved and similar experiences.

14.80

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यथा क्रम-दीपिकायाम् (३.२७)- तद्-अतिमधुर-रूप-कम्र-शोभा- मृत-रस-पान-विधान-लालसाभ्याम् । प्रणय-सलिल-पूर-वाहिनीनाम् अलस-विलोल-विलोचनाम्बुजाभ्याम् ॥८०॥

yathā krama-dīpikāyām (3.27)- tad-atimadhura-rūpa-kamra-śobhā- mṛta-rasa-pāna-vidhāna-lālasābhyām | praṇaya-salila-pūra-vāhinīnām alasa-vilola-vilocanāmbujābhyām ||80||

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As in Krama-dīpikā 3.27: Her languid and restless lotus eyes flow with a flood of loving water, eager to drink the nectar of the supremely sweet beauty and graceful splendor of his form.

14.81

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यथा वा- ज्योत्स्ना-शीधुꣳ हरि-मुख-विधोर् अप्य् अनल्पꣳ पिबन्तौ नान्तस् तृप्तिꣳ तव कथम् अपि प्राप्नुतो दृक्-चकोरौ । आघूर्णन्तौ मद-कलतया सुष्ठु मुग्धौ यद् एतौ भूयो भूयस् तम् इह वमतो बाष्प-पूर-च्छलेन ॥८१॥

yathā vā- jyotsnā-śīdhuṁ hari-mukha-vidhor apy analpaṁ pibantau nāntas tṛptiṁ tava katham api prāpnuto dṛk-cakorau | āghūrṇantau mada-kalatayā suṣṭhu mugdhau yad etau bhūyo bhūyas tam iha vamato bāṣpa-pūra-cchalena ||81||

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Or, for example: Your two cakora-like eyes drink abundant moonlight-wine from the moon of Hari's face, yet somehow they obtain no inward satisfaction. Reeling in sweet intoxication and utterly enchanted, they release that nectar again and again in the guise of floods of tears.

14.82

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अङ्ग-सङ्गे विलोके च श्रवणादौ च स क्रमात् । कनिष्ठो मध्यमः श्रेष्ठस् त्रिविधो’यꣳ मनोद्रवः ॥८२॥

aṅga-saṅge viloke ca śravaṇādau ca sa kramāt | kaniṣṭho madhyamaḥ śreṣṭhas trividho’yaṁ manodravaḥ ||82||

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This melting of the heart is threefold: lesser when produced by bodily contact, intermediate by seeing, and excellent by hearing and similar means.

14.83

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तत्र अङ्ग-सङ्गे, यथा- असि घन-रस-रूपस् त्वꣳ पाली लावण्य-सार-मय-मूर्तिः । माधव भवद्-आश्लेषे भविता नास्याः कथꣳ द्रवता ॥८३॥

tatra aṅga-saṅge, yathā- asi ghana-rasa-rūpas tvaṁ pālī lāvaṇya-sāra-maya-mūrtiḥ | mādhava bhavad-āśleṣe bhavitā nāsyāḥ kathaṁ dravatā ||83||

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From bodily contact: You are embodied concentrated rasa, and Pālī's form is made from the essence of grace. Mādhava, how could she fail to melt in your embrace?

14.84

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विलोके, यथा- अस्यास् त्वद्-वदने सरोज-सुहृदि व्यक्तिꣳ पुरस्ताद् गते नाश्चर्यꣳ द्रवताम् अविन्दत मनो-हैयङ्गवीनꣳ यदि । किन्त्व् आश्चर्यम् इदꣳ मुकुन्द मिलिते श्यामा-मुखेन्दौ भव- च्चेतश् चन्द्र-मणिर् द्रवन् जलतया भूयो बभूवाचलः ॥८४॥

viloke, yathā- asyās tvad-vadane saroja-suhṛdi vyaktiṁ purastād gate nāścaryaṁ dravatām avindata mano-haiyaṅgavīnaṁ yadi | kintv āścaryam idaṁ mukunda milite śyāmā-mukhendau bhava- ccetaś candra-maṇir dravan jalatayā bhūyo babhūvācalaḥ ||84||

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From seeing: If the fresh butter of her heart melted when your face, the friend of the lotus, appeared before her, that is no wonder. But this is astonishing, Mukunda: when the moon of Śyāmā's face arose, the moonstone of your heart melted, and through that very water became a mountain again.

14.85

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श्रवणे, यथा- श्रुति-परिसर-कक्षाꣳ याति नाम्नस् तवार्धे मुर-दमन दृग्-अम्भो-धारया धौत-गात्री । मदन-मद-मधूली-मुग्ध-मेधा-समृद्धिः स्खलति कुवलयाक्षी जृम्भते स्तम्भते च ॥८५॥

śravaṇe, yathā- śruti-parisara-kakṣāṁ yāti nāmnas tavārdhe mura-damana dṛg-ambho-dhārayā dhauta-gātrī | madana-mada-madhūlī-mugdha-medhā-samṛddhiḥ skhalati kuvalayākṣī jṛmbhate stambhate ca ||85||

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From hearing: Destroyer of Mura, when even half your name reaches the enclosure beside her ear, the lotus-eyed girl, her body bathed by a stream from her eyes and her intelligence enriched yet bewildered by Love's intoxicating honey, stumbles, stretches, and becomes rigid.

14.86

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आदि-शब्देन स्मरणे, यथा- कृष्ण-वर्त्मनि कृताभिनिवेशो साम्प्रतः त्वम् असि कम्पित-गात्री । स्नेह-पूर-परिपाक-मयꣳ ते किꣳ भविष्यति मनो न विलीनम् ॥८६॥

ādi-śabdena smaraṇe, yathā- kṛṣṇa-vartmani kṛtābhiniveśo sāmprataḥ tvam asi kampita-gātrī | sneha-pūra-paripāka-mayaṁ te kiṁ bhaviṣyati mano na vilīnam ||86||

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The word 'similar' includes remembrance, for example: You are now absorbed in the path of Kṛṣṇa, your body trembling. How could your mind, ripened by a flood of affection, fail to dissolve?

14.87

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स घृतꣳ मधु चेत्य् उक्तꣳ स्नेहो द्वेधा स्वरूपतः ॥८७॥

sa ghṛtaṁ madhu cety uktaṁ sneho dvedhā svarūpataḥ ||87||

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According to its intrinsic nature, affection is said to be of two kinds: ghee and honey.

14.88

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तत्र घृत-स्नेहः- आत्यन्तिकादर-मयः स्नेहो घृतम् इतीर्यते ॥८८॥

tatra ghṛta-snehaḥ- ātyantikādara-mayaḥ sneho ghṛtam itīryate ||88||

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Ghee-like affection: Affection composed of absolute respect is called ghee.

14.89

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भावान्तरान्वितो गच्छन् स्वादोद्रेकꣳ न तु स्वयम् । घनीभवेन् निसर्गाति-शीतलान् मिथ आदरात् । गाढादर-मयस् तेन स्नेहः स्याद् घृतवद् घृतम् ॥८९॥

bhāvāntarānvito gacchan svādodrekaṁ na tu svayam | ghanībhaven nisargāti-śītalān mitha ādarāt | gāḍhādara-mayas tena snehaḥ syād ghṛtavad ghṛtam ||89||

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Like ghee, it does not independently develop an abundance of flavor, but does so when joined with another emotion. It becomes solid through the naturally deep coolness of mutual respect. Therefore affection made of profound regard is called ghee-like.

14.90

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यथा- अभुत्थाय विदूरतो मधुभिदा याश्लिष्यते सादरꣳ या स्नेहेन वशीकरोति गुरुणा पावित्र्य-पूर्णेन तम् । क्षिप्रꣳ याति सितोपलेव विलयꣳ तत्-केलि-वृष्ट्या च या युक्ता हन्त कयोपमातुम् अपि सा चन्द्रावली मे सखी ॥९०॥

yathā- abhutthāya vidūrato madhubhidā yāśliṣyate sādaraṁ yā snehena vaśīkaroti guruṇā pāvitrya-pūrṇena tam | kṣipraṁ yāti sitopaleva vilayaṁ tat-keli-vṛṣṭyā ca yā yuktā hanta kayopamātum api sā candrāvalī me sakhī ||90||

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For example: Madhu's destroyer rises and respectfully embraces her even from afar; with weighty affection full of purity, she brings him under control; and under the rain of his play she swiftly melts like white sugar. Alas, to whom can my friend Candrāvalī be compared?

14.91

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यथा वा- निजम् अघरिपुणाꣳसे न्यस्तम् आकृष्य सव्यꣳ भुजम् इह निदधाना दक्षम् अस्रोक्षिताक्षी । पद-युगम् अपि बङ्कꣳ शङ्कया विक्षिपन्ती प्रतियुवति-वयस्याꣳ स्मेरयामास गौरी ॥९१॥

yathā vā- nijam agharipuṇāṁse nyastam ākṛṣya savyaṁ bhujam iha nidadhānā dakṣam asrokṣitākṣī | pada-yugam api baṅkaṁ śaṅkayā vikṣipantī pratiyuvati-vayasyāṁ smerayāmāsa gaurī ||91||

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Or, for example: Drawing back her own left arm that had been placed upon Agha's enemy's shoulder, the fair girl set down her right hand here, her eyes bathed in tears. Suspiciously placing her two feet crookedly, she made the rival's companion smile.

14.92

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आदरो गौरवोत्थः स्याद् इत्य् अन्योन्याश्रित-द्वयम् । रत्य्-आदौ सद् अपि स्नेहे सुव्यक्तत्वाद् इहोच्यते ॥९२॥

ādaro gauravotthaḥ syād ity anyonyāśrita-dvayam | raty-ādau sad api snehe suvyaktatvād ihocyate ||92||

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Respect arises from reverence; thus the two depend upon one another. Though present from attraction onward, it is described here because it becomes especially manifest in affection.

14.93

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मदीयतातिशय-भाक् प्रिये स्नेहो भवेन् मधु । स्वयꣳ प्रकट-माधुर्यो नाना-रस-समाहृतिः ॥९३॥

madīyatātiśaya-bhāk priye sneho bhaven madhu | svayaṁ prakaṭa-mādhuryo nānā-rasa-samāhṛtiḥ ||93||

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Honey-like affection: Affection for the beloved possessing an intense sense of 'he is mine,' whose sweetness manifests by itself and which gathers many flavors together, is called honey.

14.94

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मत्ततोष्म-धरः स्नेहो मधु-साम्यान् मधूच्यते ॥९४॥

mattatoṣma-dharaḥ sneho madhu-sāmyān madhūcyate ||94||

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Because this affection bears the heat of intoxication and resembles honey, it is called honey-like.

14.95

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यथा- राधा स्नेहमयेन हन्त रचिता माधुर्य-सारेण सा सौधीव प्रतिमा घनाप्य् उरु-गुणैर् भावोष्मणा विद्रुता । यन्-नामन्य् अपि धामनि श्रवणयोर् याति प्रसङ्गेन मे सान्द्रानन्द-मयी भवत्य् अनुपमा सद्यो जगद्-विस्मृति ॥९५॥

yathā- rādhā snehamayena hanta racitā mādhurya-sāreṇa sā saudhīva pratimā ghanāpy uru-guṇair bhāvoṣmaṇā vidrutā | yan-nāmany api dhāmani śravaṇayor yāti prasaṅgena me sāndrānanda-mayī bhavaty anupamā sadyo jagad-vismṛti ||95||

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For example: Alas, Rādhā was fashioned from affection and the essence of sweetness, like a solid image made of nectar. Yet she melts beneath the heat of emotion endowed with immense qualities. When even her name somehow enters the abode of my ears, an incomparable state filled with dense bliss immediately makes me forget the world.

14.96

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अथ मानः- स्नेहस् तूत्कृष्टतावाप्त्या माधुर्यꣳ मानयन् नवम् । यो धारयत्य् अदाक्षिण्यꣳ स मान इति कीर्त्यते ॥९६॥

atha mānaḥ- snehas tūtkṛṣṭatāvāptyā mādhuryaṁ mānayan navam | yo dhārayaty adākṣiṇyaṁ sa māna iti kīrtyate ||96||

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Now loving resentment: When affection reaches excellence, honors a fresh sweetness, and assumes a condition of discourtesy, it is celebrated as loving resentment.

14.97

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यथा- स्रवद्-अस्र-भरे कृते दृशौ मे तव गोधूलिभिर् एव गोप-वीर । अधुना वदनानिलैः किम् एभिर् विरमेति भ्रुकुटिꣳ बभार सुभ्रूः ॥९७॥

yathā- sravad-asra-bhare kṛte dṛśau me tava godhūlibhir eva gopa-vīra | adhunā vadanānilaiḥ kim ebhir virameti bhrukuṭiṁ babhāra subhrūḥ ||97||

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For example: 'Hero of the cowherds, the dust raised by your cows has already filled my eyes with streaming tears. What use now are these breaths from your mouth? Stop!' Speaking thus, the beautiful-browed girl frowned.

14.98

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उदात्तो ललितश् चेति मानो’यꣳ द्विविधो मतः ॥९८॥

udātto lalitaś ceti māno’yaṁ dvividho mataḥ ||98||

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Loving resentment is considered twofold: dignified and playful.

14.99

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तत्र उदात्तः- उदात्तः स्याद् घृत-स्नेहो धारयन् गहन-क्रमम् । दाक्षिण्य-भाग् अदाक्षिण्यꣳ वाम्य-गन्धꣳ च कुत्रचित् ॥९९॥

tatra udāttaḥ- udāttaḥ syād ghṛta-sneho dhārayan gahana-kramam | dākṣiṇya-bhāg adākṣiṇyaṁ vāmya-gandhaṁ ca kutracit ||99||

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Dignified loving resentment: Ghee-like affection that assumes a profound progression, combines courtesy with occasional discourtesy, and sometimes bears a trace of contrariness is dignified.

14.100

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तत्र दाक्षिण्योदात्तो, यथा- राधेति स्खलिताभिधे मयि हठाद् बिद्धान्तराप्य् आर्तिभिर् मद्-वैलक्ष्य-शमाय सा द्विगुणयन्त्य् आस्यारविन्दे स्मितम् । जल्पे च म्रदिमानुबिद्धम् अधिकꣳ माधुर्यम् आतन्वती चित्राणीव चकार मत्-प्रिय-सुहृद्-वृन्दानि चन्द्रावली ॥१००॥

tatra dākṣiṇyodātto, yathā- rādheti skhalitābhidhe mayi haṭhād biddhāntarāpy ārtibhir mad-vailakṣya-śamāya sā dviguṇayanty āsyāravinde smitam | jalpe ca mradimānubiddham adhikaṁ mādhuryam ātanvatī citrāṇīva cakāra mat-priya-suhṛd-vṛndāni candrāvalī ||100||

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Dignified resentment endowed with courtesy: When my tongue slipped and uttered 'Rādhā,' Candrāvalī was suddenly pierced within by pain. Yet to dispel my embarrassment she doubled the smile upon her lotus face and extended even greater sweetness, suffused with softness, in her speech. She left my circle of dear friends astonished.

14.101

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अथ वाम्य-गन्धोदात्तो, यथा श्री-विष्णु-पुराणे (५.१३.४५) - काचिद् भ्रू-भङ्गुरꣳ कृत्वा ललाट-फलकꣳ हरिम् । विलोक्य नेत्र-भृङ्गाभ्याꣳ पपौ तन्-मुख-पङ्कजम् ॥१०१॥

atha vāmya-gandhodātto, yathā śrī-viṣṇu-purāṇe (5.13.45) - kācid bhrū-bhaṅguraṁ kṛtvā lalāṭa-phalakaṁ harim | vilokya netra-bhṛṅgābhyāṁ papau tan-mukha-paṅkajam ||101||

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Now dignified resentment with a trace of contrariness, as in Viṣṇu Purāṇa 5.13.45: One woman formed a frown upon the surface of her forehead and, looking upon Hari, drank his lotus face with the bees of her eyes.

14.102

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यथा वा- अक्ष-सꣳसदि जितापि मृगाक्षी माधवेन परिरम्भ-पणेन । भुग्न-दृष्टिर् इह विप्रतिपन्नाꣳ तꣳ करणे रुरुधे परिरिप्सुम् ॥१०२॥

yathā vā- akṣa-saṁsadi jitāpi mṛgākṣī mādhavena parirambha-paṇena | bhugna-dṛṣṭir iha vipratipannāṁ taṁ karaṇe rurudhe pariripsum ||102||

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Or, for example: Though the doe-eyed girl lost to Mādhava in the dice assembly with an embrace as the stake, she lowered her gaze in disagreement and blocked him as he tried to collect his winnings.

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अथ ललितः- मधु-स्नेहस् तु कौटिल्यꣳ स्वातन्त्र्य-हृदयङ्गमम् । बिभ्रन्-नर्म-विशेषꣳ च ललितो’यम् उदीर्यते ॥१०३॥

atha lalitaḥ- madhu-snehas tu kauṭilyaṁ svātantrya-hṛdayaṅgamam | bibhran-narma-viśeṣaṁ ca lalito’yam udīryate ||103||

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Now playful loving resentment: Honey-like affection that bears crookedness pleasing to an independent heart and a distinctive playful humor is called playful.

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तत्र कौटिल्य-ललितो, यथा श्री-दशमे (१०.३२.६)- एका भ्रुकुटिम् आबद्ध्य प्रेम-सꣳरम्भ-विह्वला । घ्नतीवैक्षत् सन्दष्ट-दशन-च्छदा ॥१०४॥

tatra kauṭilya-lalito, yathā śrī-daśame (10.32.6)- ekā bhrukuṭim ābaddhya prema-saṁrambha-vihvalā | ghnatīvaikṣat sandaṣṭa-daśana-cchadā ||104||

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Playful resentment through crookedness, as in Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.32.6: One woman, overwhelmed by the agitation of love, bound her eyebrows in a frown, bit her lips, and looked at him as if she would strike him.

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यथा वा- अदत्त मे वर्त्मनि मन्मथोन्मदा स्वयꣳ ग्रहाश्लेषम् असौ सखी तव । इत्य् उक्तवन्तꣳ कुटिलीभवन् मुखी कृष्णꣳ वतꣳसेन जघान मङ्गला ॥१०५॥

yathā vā- adatta me vartmani manmathonmadā svayaṁ grahāśleṣam asau sakhī tava | ity uktavantaṁ kuṭilībhavan mukhī kṛṣṇaṁ vataṁsena jaghāna maṅgalā ||105||

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Or, for example: 'Mad with Love, your friend blocked my path and herself seized me in an embrace without permission.' As Kṛṣṇa said this, Maṅgalā crooked her face and struck him with her earring.

14.106

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यथा वा- चित्रꣳ चिर-स्पर्श-सुखाय चुचुके कुर्वन्तम् अक्षिप्रम् इयꣳ चलेक्षणा । स्विन्नाङ्गुलीकꣳ पुलकाञ्चित-श्रिया सव्येन चिक्षेप कुचेन केशवम् ॥१०६॥

yathā vā- citraṁ cira-sparśa-sukhāya cucuke kurvantam akṣipram iyaṁ calekṣaṇā | svinnāṅgulīkaṁ pulakāñcita-śriyā savyena cikṣepa kucena keśavam ||106||

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Or, for example: When Keśava swiftly tried to kiss her breast on the pretext of enjoying prolonged contact, the restless-eyed girl, her fingers perspiring, pushed him away with her left breast, whose beauty was edged with horripilation.

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अथ नर्म-ललितो, यथा दान-केलि-कौमुद्याम् (९०)- मिथ्या जल्पतु ते कथꣳ नु रसना साध्वी-सहस्रस्य या बिम्बोष्ठामृत-सेवनाद् अघरिपो पुण्या प्रयत्नाद् अभूत् । कस्माद् एव बल्ꣳत्-करोतु च करः सोढुꣳ क्षमः सुभ्रुवाꣳ रक्तः सुष्ठु न नीवि-बन्धम् अपि यः का वान्य-बन्धे कथा ॥१०७॥

atha narma-lalito, yathā dāna-keli-kaumudyām (90)- mithyā jalpatu te kathaṁ nu rasanā sādhvī-sahasrasya yā bimboṣṭhāmṛta-sevanād agharipo puṇyā prayatnād abhūt | kasmād eva balṁt-karotu ca karaḥ soḍhuṁ kṣamaḥ subhruvāṁ raktaḥ suṣṭhu na nīvi-bandham api yaḥ kā vānya-bandhe kathā ||107||

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Playful resentment through joking, as in Dāna-keli-kaumudī 90: How can your tongue speak falsely, Agha's enemy, when it became virtuous through carefully serving the nectar of a thousand faithful women's bimba lips? And why should your hand seize anything by force when, though deeply red, it cannot even endure the waist-knot of beautiful-browed women, what to speak of any other bond?

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अथ प्रणयः- मानो दधानो विश्रम्भꣳ प्रणयः प्रोच्यते बुधैः ॥१०८॥

atha praṇayaḥ- māno dadhāno viśrambhaṁ praṇayaḥ procyate budhaiḥ ||108||

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Now intimacy: Loving resentment that bears complete trust is called intimacy by the wise.

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यथा- कुचोपान्ते स्पृष्टा मुर-विजयिना तद्-भुज-शिर- स्तिरो-न्यस्त-ग्रीवा भ्रुवम् अनृजु-दृष्टिर् विभुजती । पटेनास्य म्लानीकृत-पुरट-भासा पुलकिनी प्रमोदास्रैर् धौतꣳ निज-मुखम् इयꣳ मार्ष्टि सुमुखी ॥१०९॥

yathā- kucopānte spṛṣṭā mura-vijayinā tad-bhuja-śira- stiro-nyasta-grīvā bhruvam anṛju-dṛṣṭir vibhujatī | paṭenāsya mlānīkṛta-puraṭa-bhāsā pulakinī pramodāsrair dhautaṁ nija-mukham iyaṁ mārṣṭi sumukhī ||109||

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For example: Touched beside her breast by Mura's conqueror, she rested her neck upon the top of his arm, arched her eyebrow with a crooked gaze, and used his cloth, whose golden radiance had faded, to wipe her own face, washed by joyful tears and covered in horripilation.

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स्वरूपꣳ प्रणयस्यास्य विश्रम्भः कथितो बुधैः । विश्रम्भो’पि द्विधा मैत्रꣳ सख्यꣳ चेति निगद्यते ॥११०॥

svarūpaṁ praṇayasyāsya viśrambhaḥ kathito budhaiḥ | viśrambho’pi dvidhā maitraṁ sakhyaṁ ceti nigadyate ||110||

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The wise describe complete trust as the essential nature of this intimacy. Trust itself is said to be twofold: respectful friendship and fearless familiarity.

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तत्र मैत्रꣳ- भावज्ञैः प्रोच्यते मैत्रꣳ विश्रम्भो विनयान्वितः ॥१११॥

tatra maitraṁ- bhāvajñaiḥ procyate maitraṁ viśrambho vinayānvitaḥ ||111||

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Respectful friendship: Those who understand emotion call trust joined with humility respectful friendship.

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यथा श्री-दशमे (१०.३२.४)- काचित् कराम्बुजꣳ शौरेर् जगृहे’ञ्जलिनाꣳ मुदा । काचिद् दधार तद्-बाहुम् अꣳसे चन्दन-रूषितम् ॥११२॥

yathā śrī-daśame (10.32.4)- kācit karāmbujaṁ śaurer jagṛhe’ñjalināṁ mudā | kācid dadhāra tad-bāhum aṁse candana-rūṣitam ||112||

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As in Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.32.4: One woman joyfully took Śauri's lotus hand between her joined palms, while another placed his arm, marked with sandalwood, upon her shoulder.

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यथा वा- न हि सङ्कुच पङ्कजेक्षणः पादयोस् ते निदधातु नूपुरौ । अनयोर् ध्वनिभिर् विलज्जताꣳ कलहꣳसीव विपक्ष-कामिनी ॥११३॥

yathā vā- na hi saṅkuca paṅkajekṣaṇaḥ pādayos te nidadhātu nūpurau | anayor dhvanibhir vilajjatāṁ kalahaṁsīva vipakṣa-kāminī ||113||

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Or, for example: Do not shrink away. Let the lotus-eyed one place ankle bells upon your feet. May the swan-like rival women become ashamed at their sound.

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अथ सख्यम्- विस्रम्भꣳ साध्वसोन्मुक्तः सख्यꣳ स्व-वशता-मयः ॥११४॥

atha sakhyam- visrambhaṁ sādhvasonmuktaḥ sakhyaṁ sva-vaśatā-mayaḥ ||114||

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Now fearless familiarity: Trust freed from all apprehension and filled with the sense that the beloved is under one's own control is fearless familiarity.

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यथा- सरभसम् अधिकण्ठम् अर्पिताभ्याꣳ दनुज-रिपोर् निज-बाहु-वल्लरीभ्याम् । निटिलम् अवनमय्य तस्य कर्णे सखि कथितꣳ किम् इव त्वया रहस्यम् ॥११५॥

yathā- sarabhasam adhikaṇṭham arpitābhyāṁ danuja-ripor nija-bāhu-vallarībhyām | niṭilam avanamayya tasya karṇe sakhi kathitaṁ kim iva tvayā rahasyam ||115||

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For example: Friend, suddenly placing both your vine-like arms around the demon's enemy's neck and bending down his forehead, what secret did you whisper into his ear?

14.116

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यथा वा श्री-विष्णु-पुराणे (५.३०.३४)- यदि ते तद्-वचः सत्यꣳ सत्यात्यर्थꣳ प्रियेति मे । मद्-गेह-निष्कुटार्थाय तदायꣳ नीयताꣳ तरुः ॥११६॥

yathā vā śrī-viṣṇu-purāṇe (5.30.34)- yadi te tad-vacaḥ satyaṁ satyātyarthaṁ priyeti me | mad-geha-niṣkuṭārthāya tadāyaṁ nīyatāṁ taruḥ ||116||

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Or, as in Viṣṇu Purāṇa 5.30.34: If your statement that Satyā is exceedingly dear to you is true, then bring this tree for the garden courtyard of my house.

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यथा वा- विन्यस्य वक्षोरुह-कोरक-द्वयीꣳ वक्षः-स्थले कꣳस-हरस्य हारिणीम् । पत्राङ्कुरꣳ कुङ्कुम-बिन्दु-नालिके लिखत्य् असौ चन्द्र-मुखी सखी मम ॥११७॥

yathā vā- vinyasya vakṣoruha-koraka-dvayīṁ vakṣaḥ-sthale kaṁsa-harasya hāriṇīm | patrāṅkuraṁ kuṅkuma-bindu-nālike likhaty asau candra-mukhī sakhī mama ||117||

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Or, for example: Placing the two enchanting buds of her breasts upon the chest of Kaṁsa's destroyer, my moon-faced friend draws a leaf pattern there with a tube tipped by a dot of kuṅkuma.

14.118

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यथा वा श्री-दशमे (१०.३०.३८)- ततो गत्वा वनोद्देशे दृप्ता केशवम् अब्रवीत् । न पारये’हꣳ चलितुꣳ नय माꣳ यत्र ते मनः ॥११८॥

yathā vā śrī-daśame (10.30.38)- tato gatvā vanoddeśe dṛptā keśavam abravīt | na pāraye’haṁ calituṁ naya māṁ yatra te manaḥ ||118||

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Or, as in Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.30.38: Going farther into the forest, the proud woman said to Keśava, 'I cannot walk. Carry me wherever you wish.'

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जनित्वा प्रणयः स्नेहात् कुत्रचिन् मानताꣳ व्रजेत् । स्नेहान् मानः क्वचिद् भूत्वा प्रणयत्वम् अथाश्नुते ॥११९॥

janitvā praṇayaḥ snehāt kutracin mānatāṁ vrajet | snehān mānaḥ kvacid bhūtvā praṇayatvam athāśnute ||119||

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After arising from affection, intimacy may sometimes become loving resentment. At other times loving resentment arises from affection and then attains intimacy.

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कार्य-कारणतान्यो’न्यम् अतः प्रणय-मानयोः । इत्य् अत्र पृथग् एवासौ विश्रम्भोदाहृतिः कृता ॥१२०॥

kārya-kāraṇatānyo’nyam ataḥ praṇaya-mānayoḥ | ity atra pṛthag evāsau viśrambhodāhṛtiḥ kṛtā ||120||

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Thus intimacy and loving resentment can each act as cause and effect of the other. For that reason, an example specifically illustrating trust has been given separately here.

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उदात्त-ललिताभ्याꣳ तु मैत्र्य-सख्ये सुसङ्गते । द्वे सुमैत्र्य-सुसख्याख्ये यथा-सङ्ख्यम् उदीरिते ॥१२१॥

udātta-lalitābhyāṁ tu maitrya-sakhye susaṅgate | dve sumaitrya-susakhyākhye yathā-saṅkhyam udīrite ||121||

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When dignified loving resentment combines fittingly with respectful friendship, the result is called excellent friendship; when playful loving resentment combines with fearless familiarity, it is called excellent familiarity.

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तत्र सुमैत्र्यम्- आली-पुरः कथयितुꣳ रजनी-रहस्यꣳ तत्रोद्यते मधुरिपौ मृदुला भ्रमद्-भ्रूः । उत्क्षिप्य तन् मुख-पुटावरणाय हस्तꣳ न्यञ्चन्-मुखी समवरिष्ट पुनर् वराक्षी ॥१२२॥

tatra sumaitryam- ālī-puraḥ kathayituṁ rajanī-rahasyaṁ tatrodyate madhuripau mṛdulā bhramad-bhrūḥ | utkṣipya tan mukha-puṭāvaraṇāya hastaṁ nyañcan-mukhī samavariṣṭa punar varākṣī ||122||

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Excellent friendship: When Madhu's enemy began to tell the night's secret before her friends, the gentle girl, her eyebrows moving, raised her hand to cover his mouth. Lowering her face, the beautiful-eyed girl stopped him again.

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यथा वा- क्षिप्ते वर्णक-भाजने तरणिजा-पुरे परीहासतः कृष्णेन भ्रुवम् आरचय्य कुटिलाम् आलोकयन्ती तिरः । तारा वक्षसि चित्रम् अर्ध-लिखितꣳ श्री-वत्स-विभ्राजिते काश्मीरेण घन-श्रिया निज-कुचाकृष्टेन पूर्णꣳ व्यधात् ॥१२३॥

yathā vā- kṣipte varṇaka-bhājane taraṇijā-pure parīhāsataḥ kṛṣṇena bhruvam āracayya kuṭilām ālokayantī tiraḥ | tārā vakṣasi citram ardha-likhitaṁ śrī-vatsa-vibhrājite kāśmīreṇa ghana-śriyā nija-kucākṛṣṭena pūrṇaṁ vyadhāt ||123||

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Or, for example: When Kṛṣṇa jokingly threw the bowl of pigment in the city upon Yamunā's bank, Tārā formed a crooked eyebrow and looked aside. She then used deep saffron drawn from her own breast to complete the half-drawn picture upon his chest, radiant with Śrīvatsa.

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अथ सुसख्यम्- द्यूते सकृत् पान-विधौ पणी-कृते जित्वा द्विरोष्ठꣳ पिबति स्वम् अच्युते । बबन्ध कण्ठे कुटिली-कृतेक्षणा तꣳ वामया दोर्लतयास्य वल्लवी ॥१२४॥

atha susakhyam- dyūte sakṛt pāna-vidhau paṇī-kṛte jitvā dviroṣṭhaṁ pibati svam acyute | babandha kaṇṭhe kuṭilī-kṛtekṣaṇā taṁ vāmayā dorlatayāsya vallavī ||124||

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Now excellent familiarity: When a single drink from her two lips was staked in a dice game and Acyuta won and drank his prize, the cowherd woman crooked her gaze and bound him around the neck with the vine of her left arm.

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यथा वा- आविष्कुर्वति विस्फुरन् नवनखोल्लेखꣳ स्व-वक्षस्-तटꣳ कृष्णे पीत-दुकूल-सङ्कलनया स्मित्वा सखीनाꣳ पुरः । अभ्रश्यामम् उरो रुरोध वलित-भ्रूर् आननꣳ धुन्वती रोमाञ्चोद्गम-कञ्चुकेन कुचयोर् द्वन्द्वेन गान्धर्विका ॥१२५॥

yathā vā- āviṣkurvati visphuran navanakhollekhaṁ sva-vakṣas-taṭaṁ kṛṣṇe pīta-dukūla-saṅkalanayā smitvā sakhīnāṁ puraḥ | abhraśyāmam uro rurodha valita-bhrūr ānanaṁ dhunvatī romāñcodgama-kañcukena kucayor dvandvena gāndharvikā ||125||

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Or, for example: Before her friends, Kṛṣṇa smiled, drew together his yellow silk, and revealed his chest marked by shining fresh nail scratches. Gāndharvikā shook her face, curved her eyebrows, and covered his cloud-dark chest with her paired breasts, clothed in a bodice of rising horripilation.

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अथ रागः- दुःखम् अप्य् अधिकꣳ चित्ते सुखत्वेनैव रज्यते । यतस् तु प्रणयोत्कर्षात् स राग इति कीर्त्यते ॥१२६॥

atha rāgaḥ- duḥkham apy adhikaṁ citte sukhatvenaiva rajyate | yatas tu praṇayotkarṣāt sa rāga iti kīrtyate ||126||

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Now passion: That state in which even intense suffering becomes colored within the heart as happiness because intimacy has reached excellence is celebrated as passion.

14.127

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यथा- तीव्रार्क-द्युति-दीपितैर् असिलताधाराकरालास्रिभिर् मार्तण्डोपल-मण्डलैः स्थपुटिते’प्य् अद्रेस् तटे तस्थुषी । पश्यन्ति पशुपेन्द्र-नन्दनम् असाव् इन्दीवरैर् आस्तृते तल्पे न्यस्त-पदाम्बुजेव मुदिता न स्पन्दते राधिका ॥१२७॥

yathā- tīvrārka-dyuti-dīpitair asilatādhārākarālāsribhir mārtaṇḍopala-maṇḍalaiḥ sthapuṭite’py adres taṭe tasthuṣī | paśyanti paśupendra-nandanam asāv indīvarair āstṛte talpe nyasta-padāmbujeva muditā na spandate rādhikā ||127||

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For example: The mountain slope was uneven with circles of sunstones blazing under the fierce sun, their sharp edges dreadful as sword blades. Yet seeing the cowherd king's son, Rādhikā stood there delighted and motionless as though she had placed her lotus feet upon a bed covered with blue lotuses.

14.128

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यथा वा पद्यावल्याꣳ (१७९)- ताराभिसारक चतुर्थ-निशा-शशाङ्क कामाम्बु-राशि-परिवर्धन देव तुभ्यम् । अर्घो नमो भवतु मे सह तेन यूना मिथ्यापवाद-वचसाप्य् अभिमान-सिद्धिः ॥१२८॥

yathā vā padyāvalyāṁ (179)- tārābhisāraka caturtha-niśā-śaśāṅka kāmāmbu-rāśi-parivardhana deva tubhyam | argho namo bhavatu me saha tena yūnā mithyāpavāda-vacasāpy abhimāna-siddhiḥ ||128||

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Or, as in Padyāvalī 179: Moon of the fourth night, clandestine lover of the stars, god who makes the ocean of desire swell, I offer you homage and honor. Through false words of accusation, I too have gained recognition of my bond with that young man.

14.129

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नीलिमा रक्तिमा चेति रागो’यꣳ द्विविधो मतः ॥१२९॥

nīlimā raktimā ceti rāgo’yaṁ dvividho mataḥ ||129||

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Passion is considered twofold: blue and red.

14.130

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तत्र नीलिमा- नीली-श्यामाभवो रागो नीलिमा कथ्यते बुधैः ॥१३०॥

tatra nīlimā- nīlī-śyāmābhavo rāgo nīlimā kathyate budhaiḥ ||130||

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Blue passion: The wise say that blue passion arises from either indigo or dark-blue dye.

14.131

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तत्र नीली-रागः- व्यय-सम्भावना-हीनो बहिर् नातिप्रकाशवान् । स्व-लग्न-भावावरणो नीली-रागः सताꣳ मतः । यथावलोक्यते चैष चन्द्रावलि-मुकुन्दयोः ॥१३१॥

tatra nīlī-rāgaḥ- vyaya-sambhāvanā-hīno bahir nātiprakāśavān | sva-lagna-bhāvāvaraṇo nīlī-rāgaḥ satāṁ mataḥ | yathāvalokyate caiṣa candrāvali-mukundayoḥ ||131||

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Indigo passion: The saints accept as indigo passion that which has no possibility of being spent, is not excessively manifest outside, and conceals the other emotions attached to it. It is seen in Candrāvalī and Mukunda.

14.132

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यथा- प्रसन्न-विशदाशया विविध-मुद्रया निर्मितꣳ प्रतारणम् अपि त्वया गुणतया सदा गृह्णती । तथा व्यवजहार सा व्रज-कुलेन्द्र चन्द्रावली सखीभिर् अपि तर्किता त्वयि यथा तटस्थेत्य् असौ ॥१३२॥

yathā- prasanna-viśadāśayā vividha-mudrayā nirmitaṁ pratāraṇam api tvayā guṇatayā sadā gṛhṇatī | tathā vyavajahāra sā vraja-kulendra candrāvalī sakhībhir api tarkitā tvayi yathā taṭasthety asau ||132||

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For example: Her heart clear and serene, Candrāvalī always accepted even your deception as a virtue, whatever form it took. King of Vraja's family, she behaved toward you so evenly that even her companions inferred that she was neutral.

14.133

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अथ श्यामा-रागः- भीरुतौषधि-सेकादिर् आद्यात् किञ्चित् प्रकाश-भाक् । यश् चिरेणैव साध्यः स्यात् स श्यामा-राग उच्यते ॥१३३॥

atha śyāmā-rāgaḥ- bhīrutauṣadhi-sekādir ādyāt kiñcit prakāśa-bhāk | yaś cireṇaiva sādhyaḥ syāt sa śyāmā-rāga ucyate ||133||

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Now dark-blue passion: Passion that is achieved only after a long time through the irrigation of remedies for timidity and similar efforts, and which becomes somewhat more manifest than the preceding kind, is called dark-blue passion.

14.134

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यथा- पुरा कुञ्जे मञ्जुन्य् अवतमस-युक्ते’पि चकिता मुरारेर् या पार्श्वे न तरुणि दिवाप्य् अन्तरम् अगात् । तमालैः सैवाद्य द्विगुणित-तमिस्रे’पि मुदिता तमिस्रार्धे मानिन्य् अहह भवती तꣳ मृगयते ॥१३४॥

yathā- purā kuñje mañjuny avatamasa-yukte’pi cakitā murārer yā pārśve na taruṇi divāpy antaram agāt | tamālaiḥ saivādya dviguṇita-tamisre’pi muditā tamisrārdhe māniny ahaha bhavatī taṁ mṛgayate ||134||

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For example: Young girl, formerly you were so frightened in a lovely bower that, even while adorned with ear flowers, you would not go near Murāri even by day. Yet now, proud woman, at midnight you joyfully seek him in darkness doubled by tamāla trees.

14.135

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अथ रक्तिमा- रागः कुसुम्भ-मञ्जिष्ठा-सम्भवो रक्तिमा मतः ॥१३५॥

atha raktimā- rāgaḥ kusumbha-mañjiṣṭhā-sambhavo raktimā mataḥ ||135||

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Now red passion: Red passion is understood to arise from either safflower or madder dye.

14.136

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तत्र कुसुम्भ-रागः- कुसुम्भ-रागः स ज्ञेयो यश् चित्ते सज्जति द्रुतम् । अन्य-राग-च्छवि-व्यञ्जी शोभते च यथोचितम् ॥१३६॥

tatra kusumbha-rāgaḥ- kusumbha-rāgaḥ sa jñeyo yaś citte sajjati drutam | anya-rāga-cchavi-vyañjī śobhate ca yathocitam ||136||

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Safflower passion: Passion that quickly adheres to the heart, reveals the hue of another passion, and shines appropriately is known as safflower passion.

14.137

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यथा- त्वय्य् एव श्रवणावधि प्रिय-सखी या कृष्ण-बद्धान्तरा या दृष्टे भुजगे’पि तावक-भुजा-साम्यात् प्रमोदोन्मदा । प्रेक्ष्य त्वाꣳ पुरतो’द्य काम् अपि दशाꣳ प्राप्तास्ति सेयꣳ तथा न ज्ञायेत यथा किम् एष बलवान् रागो विरागो’थवा ॥१३७॥

yathā- tvayy eva śravaṇāvadhi priya-sakhī yā kṛṣṇa-baddhāntarā yā dṛṣṭe bhujage’pi tāvaka-bhujā-sāmyāt pramodonmadā | prekṣya tvāṁ purato’dya kām api daśāṁ prāptāsti seyaṁ tathā na jñāyeta yathā kim eṣa balavān rāgo virāgo’thavā ||137||

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For example: Dear Kṛṣṇa, from the moment she heard of you, my friend's heart became bound to you alone. Seeing even a serpent, she became mad with joy because it resembled your arm. Today, seeing you before her, she has entered such a state that one cannot determine whether this powerful condition is passion or detachment.

14.138

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सदाधार-विशेषेषु कौसुम्भो’पि स्थिरो भवेत् । इति कृष्ण-प्रणयिषु म्लानिर् अस्य न युज्यते ॥१३८॥

sadādhāra-viśeṣeṣu kausumbho’pi sthiro bhavet | iti kṛṣṇa-praṇayiṣu mlānir asya na yujyate ||138||

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Even safflower passion becomes stable when it rests in an exceptionally suitable support. Therefore it is not proper for this passion to fade in women who love Kṛṣṇa.

14.139

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अथ मञ्जिष्ठ-रागः- अहार्यो’नन्य-सापेक्षो यः कान्त्या वर्द्धते सदा । भवेन् माञ्जिष्ठ-रागो’सौ राधा-माधवयोर् यथा ॥१३९॥

atha mañjiṣṭha-rāgaḥ- ahāryo’nanya-sāpekṣo yaḥ kāntyā varddhate sadā | bhaven māñjiṣṭha-rāgo’sau rādhā-mādhavayor yathā ||139||

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Now madder passion: Passion that cannot be removed, depends upon nothing else, and continually increases in brilliance is madder passion, as in Rādhā and Mādhava.

14.140

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यथा- धत्ते द्राग् अनुपाधि जन्म विधिना केनापि नाकम्पते सूते’त्याहित-सञ्चयैर् अपि रसꣳ ते चेन् मिथो वर्त्मने । ऋद्धिꣳ सञ्चिनुते चमत्कृति-करोद्दाम-प्रमोदोत्तराꣳ राधा-माधवयोर् अयꣳ निरुपमः प्रेमानुबन्धोत्सवः ॥१४०॥

yathā- dhatte drāg anupādhi janma vidhinā kenāpi nākampate sūte’tyāhita-sañcayair api rasaṁ te cen mitho vartmane | ṛddhiṁ sañcinute camatkṛti-karoddāma-pramodottarāṁ rādhā-mādhavayor ayaṁ nirupamaḥ premānubandhotsavaḥ ||140||

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For example: The incomparable festival of the continuing love between Rādhā and Mādhava arises instantly without external condition and is shaken by no circumstance. Even severe accumulations of obstacles produce rasa for the course of their relationship, and it gathers ever-increasing abundance beyond powerful and wondrous joy.

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यथा वा, विदग्ध-माधवे (३.१७)- मया ते निर्बन्धान् मुरजयिनि रागः परिहृत्य मयि स्निग्धे किन्तु प्रथय परमाशीस्-ततिम् इमाम् । मुखामोदोद्गार-ग्रहिल-मतिर् अद्यैव हि यतः प्रदोषारम्भे स्याꣳ विमल-वन-माला-मधु-करी ॥१४१॥

yathā vā, vidagdha-mādhave (3.17)- mayā te nirbandhān murajayini rāgaḥ parihṛtya mayi snigdhe kintu prathaya paramāśīs-tatim imām | mukhāmododgāra-grahila-matir adyaiva hi yataḥ pradoṣārambhe syāṁ vimala-vana-mālā-madhu-karī ||141||

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Or, as in Vidagdha-mādhava 3.17: At my insistence, abandon your passion for Mura's conqueror. But if you remain affectionate toward me, grant me this highest blessing: may I become tonight, at the beginning of dusk, a bee of his spotless forest garland, my mind seized by the fragrance flowing from his face.

14.142

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पूर्व-पूर्वस् तु यो भावः सोमाभादौ स राजते । तथा भीष्म-सुतादौ च श्री-हरेर् महिषी-गणे ॥१४२॥

pūrva-pūrvas tu yo bhāvaḥ somābhādau sa rājate | tathā bhīṣma-sutādau ca śrī-harer mahiṣī-gaṇe ||142||

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The earlier forms of passion shine in Soma and similar women, as well as in Bhīṣma's daughter and others among Śrī Hari's queens.

14.143

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य उत्तरोत्तरो द्वियो राधिकादौ स दीव्यति । तथा श्री-सत्यभामायाꣳ लक्ष्मणायाम् अपि क्वचित् ॥१४३॥

ya uttarottaro dviyo rādhikādau sa dīvyati | tathā śrī-satyabhāmāyāṁ lakṣmaṇāyām api kvacit ||143||

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The latter two progressively higher forms shine in Rādhikā and her companions, and sometimes also in Śrī Satyabhāmā and Lakṣmaṇā.

14.144

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इत्थꣳ भेदेन भावानाꣳ सर्व-गोकुल-सुभ्रुवाम् । आत्म-पक्ष-विपक्षादि-भेदाः पूर्वम् उदीरिताः ॥१४४॥

itthaṁ bhedena bhāvānāṁ sarva-gokula-subhruvām | ātma-pakṣa-vipakṣādi-bhedāḥ pūrvam udīritāḥ ||144||

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The divisions of all Gokula's beautiful-browed women into one's own party, an opposing party, and the others were previously explained according to these differences of emotion.

14.145

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या भावान्तर-सम्बन्धाज् जायन्ते विविधा भिदाः । अपरा अपि भावानाꣳ ज्ञेयास् ताः प्रज्ञया बुधैः ॥१४५॥

yā bhāvāntara-sambandhāj jāyante vividhā bhidāḥ | aparā api bhāvānāṁ jñeyās tāḥ prajñayā budhaiḥ ||145||

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The wise should discern through intelligence the many further divisions of these emotions that arise through their relationships with other emotions.

14.146

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अथ अनुरागः- सदानुभूतम् अपि यः कुर्यान् नव-नवꣳ प्रियम् । रागो भवन् नव-नवः सो’नुराग इतीर्यते ॥१४६॥

atha anurāgaḥ- sadānubhūtam api yaḥ kuryān nava-navaṁ priyam | rāgo bhavan nava-navaḥ so’nurāga itīryate ||146||

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Now ever-new attachment: Passion that makes the beloved, though continually experienced, appear ever fresh at every moment is called ever-new attachment.

14.147

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यथा दान-केलि-कौमुद्याम् (२८)- प्रपन्नः पन्थानꣳ हरिर् असकृद् अस्मन्-नयनयोर् अपूर्वो’यꣳ पूर्वꣳ क्वचिद् अपि न दृष्टो मधुरिमा । प्रतीके’प्य् एकस्य स्फुरति मुहुर् अङ्गस्य सखि या श्रियस् तस्याः पातुꣳ लवम् अपि समर्था न दृग् इयम् ॥१४७॥

yathā dāna-keli-kaumudyām (28)- prapannaḥ panthānaṁ harir asakṛd asman-nayanayor apūrvo’yaṁ pūrvaṁ kvacid api na dṛṣṭo madhurimā | pratīke’py ekasya sphurati muhur aṅgasya sakhi yā śriyas tasyāḥ pātuṁ lavam api samarthā na dṛg iyam ||147||

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As in Dāna-keli-kaumudī 28: Hari has entered the path of our eyes many times, yet this sweetness is unprecedented and was never seen anywhere before. Friend, the beauty repeatedly shining in even a single feature of one of his limbs is such that this eye cannot drink even a fraction of it.

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यथा वा- को’यꣳ कृष्ण इति व्युदस्यति धृतिꣳ यस् तन्वि कर्णꣳ विशन् रागान्धे किम् इदꣳ सदैव भवती तस्योरसि क्रीडति । हास्यꣳ मा कुरु मोहिते त्वम् अधुना न्यस्तास्य हस्ते मया सत्यꣳ सत्यम् असौ दृग्-अङ्गनम् अगाद् अद्यैव विद्युन्-निभः ॥१४८॥

yathā vā- ko’yaṁ kṛṣṇa iti vyudasyati dhṛtiṁ yas tanvi karṇaṁ viśan rāgāndhe kim idaṁ sadaiva bhavatī tasyorasi krīḍati | hāsyaṁ mā kuru mohite tvam adhunā nyastāsya haste mayā satyaṁ satyam asau dṛg-aṅganam agād adyaiva vidyun-nibhaḥ ||148||

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Or, for example: 'Slender girl, who is this Kṛṣṇa whose name enters your ear and casts away your composure?' 'Blind with passion, what are you saying? You always sport upon his chest.' 'Bewildered girl, do not laugh! I placed you in his hand only now. Truly, truly, that lightning-like man entered the courtyard of my eyes today alone.'

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परस्पर-वशीभावः प्रेम-वैचित्त्यकꣳ तथा । अप्राणिन्य् अपि जन्माप्तौ लालसा-भर उन्नतः । विप्रलम्भे’स्य विस्फूर्तिर् इत्य् आद्याः स्युर् इह क्रियाः ॥१४९॥

paraspara-vaśībhāvaḥ prema-vaicittyakaṁ tathā | aprāṇiny api janmāptau lālasā-bhara unnataḥ | vipralambhe’sya visphūrtir ity ādyāḥ syur iha kriyāḥ ||149||

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Its effects here include the lovers bringing one another under control, bewilderment within love, an intense longing to take birth even as an inanimate object, and vivid manifestation during separation.

14.150

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अत्र परस्पर-वशीभावो, यथा- समारम्भꣳ पारस्परिक-विजयाय प्रथयतोर् अपूर्वा केयꣳ वाम् अघदमन सꣳरम्भ-लहरी । मनो-हस्ती बद्धस् तव यद् अनया राग-निगडैस् त्वयाप्य् अस्याः प्रेमोत्सव-नव-गुणैश् चित्त-हरिणः ॥१५०॥

atra paraspara-vaśībhāvo, yathā- samārambhaṁ pārasparika-vijayāya prathayator apūrvā keyaṁ vām aghadamana saṁrambha-laharī | mano-hastī baddhas tava yad anayā rāga-nigaḍais tvayāpy asyāḥ premotsava-nava-guṇaiś citta-hariṇaḥ ||150||

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Mutual subjugation, for example: Destroyer of Agha, as you both begin the struggle to conquer one another, what unprecedented wave of contrary agitation is this? She binds the elephant of your mind with the chains of her passion, while you bind the deer of her heart with fresh cords from the festival of love.

14.151

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प्रेम-वैचित्त्य-सꣳज्ञस् तु विप्रलम्भः स कथ्यते ॥१५१॥

prema-vaicittya-saṁjñas tu vipralambhaḥ sa kathyate ||151||

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The separation called bewilderment within love will be described later.

14.152

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अप्राणिन्य् अपि जन्म-लालसा-भरो, यथा दान-केलि-कौमुद्याम् (१७)- तपस्यामह् क्षामोदरि वरयितुम् वेनुषु जनुर् वरेण्यम् मन्येथाः सखि तद् अखिलानाꣳ सुजनुषाम् । तपह्-स्तोमेनोच्चैर् यद् इयम् उरर्ञ्कृत्य मुरली मुरारातेर् बिम्बाधर-मधुरिमानम् रसयति ॥१५२॥

aprāṇiny api janma-lālasā-bharo, yathā dāna-keli-kaumudyām (17)- tapasyāmah kṣāmodari varayitum venuṣu janur vareṇyam manyethāḥ sakhi tad akhilānāṁ sujanuṣām | tapah-stomenoccair yad iyam urarñkṛtya muralī murārāter bimbādhara-madhurimānam rasayati ||152||

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Intense longing for birth even as an inanimate object, as in Dāna-keli-kaumudī 17: Slender-waisted girl, let us perform austerity to obtain birth among the bamboo plants. Friend, consider that birth the most excellent of all noble births, for by an abundance of austerity this flute has embraced and tastes the sweetness of Murāri's bimba lips.

14.153

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अथ विप्रलम्भे विस्फूर्तिर्, यथा- ब्रूयास् त्वꣳ मथुराध्वनीन मथुरानाथꣳ तम् इत्य् उच्चकैः सन्देशꣳ व्रज-सुन्दरी कम् अपि ते काचिन् मया प्राहिणोत् । तत्र क्ष्मापति-पत्तने यदि गतः स्वच्छन्द गच्छाधुना किꣳ क्लिष्टाम् अपि विस्फुरन् दिशि दिशि क्लिश्नासि हा मे सखीम् ॥१५३॥

atha vipralambhe visphūrtir, yathā- brūyās tvaṁ mathurādhvanīna mathurānāthaṁ tam ity uccakaiḥ sandeśaṁ vraja-sundarī kam api te kācin mayā prāhiṇot | tatra kṣmāpati-pattane yadi gataḥ svacchanda gacchādhunā kiṁ kliṣṭām api visphuran diśi diśi kliśnāsi hā me sakhīm ||153||

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Now vivid manifestation during separation: Traveler on the road to Mathurā, loudly tell that lord of Mathurā, 'A certain beautiful woman of Vraja sent some message to you through me.' If you have gone to that royal city, then go freely now. Why, appearing in every direction, do you torment my already afflicted friend?

14.154

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अथ भावः- अनुरागः स्व-सꣳवेद्य-दशाꣳ प्राप्य प्रकाशितः । यावद्-आश्रय-वृत्तिश् चेद् भाव इत्य् अभिधीयते ॥१५४॥

atha bhāvaḥ- anurāgaḥ sva-saṁvedya-daśāṁ prāpya prakāśitaḥ | yāvad-āśraya-vṛttiś ced bhāva ity abhidhīyate ||154||

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Now bhāva: Ever-new attachment that reaches a state perceptible by itself, becomes fully manifest, and pervades the entire being of its support is called bhāva.

14.155

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यथा- राधाया भवतश् च चित्त-जतुनी स्वेदैर् विलाप्य क्रमात् युञ्जन्न् अद्रि-निकुञ्ज-कुञ्जर-पते निर्धूत-भेद-भ्रमम् । चित्राय स्वयम् अन्वरञ्जयद् इह ब्रह्माण्ड-हर्म्योदरे भूयोभिर् नव-राग-हिङ्गुल-भरैः शृङ्गार-कारुः कृती ॥१५५॥

yathā- rādhāyā bhavataś ca citta-jatunī svedair vilāpya kramāt yuñjann adri-nikuñja-kuñjara-pate nirdhūta-bheda-bhramam | citrāya svayam anvarañjayad iha brahmāṇḍa-harmyodare bhūyobhir nava-rāga-hiṅgula-bharaiḥ śṛṅgāra-kāruḥ kṛtī ||155||

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For example: Lordly elephant of the mountain bowers, the expert artisan Romantic Love gradually melts the lac of Rādhā's and your hearts with perspiration, joins them until every illusion of distinction is removed, and then colors the interior of the palace of the universe with repeated masses of the cinnabar of fresh passion.

14.156

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मुकुन्द-महिषी-वृन्दैर् अप्य् असाव् अतिदुर्लभः । व्रज-देव्य्-एक-सꣳवेद्यो महाभावाख्ययोच्यते ॥१५६॥

mukunda-mahiṣī-vṛndair apy asāv atidurlabhaḥ | vraja-devy-eka-saṁvedyo mahābhāvākhyayocyate ||156||

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This state, exceedingly rare even among Mukunda's queens and known only to the goddesses of Vraja, is called mahābhāva.

14.157

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वरामृत-स्वरूप-श्रीः स्वꣳ स्वरूपꣳ मनो नयेत् ॥१५७॥

varāmṛta-svarūpa-śrīḥ svaṁ svarūpaṁ mano nayet ||157||

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Possessing the beauty of supreme nectar as its own nature, it makes the mind attain that same essential nature.

14.158

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स रूढश् चाधिरूढश् चेत्य् उच्यते द्विविधो बुधैः ॥१५८॥

sa rūḍhaś cādhirūḍhaś cety ucyate dvividho budhaiḥ ||158||

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The wise describe mahābhāva as twofold: mature and supremely mature.

14.159

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तत्र रूढः- उद्दीप्ता सात्त्विका यत्र स रूढ इति भण्यते ॥१५९॥

tatra rūḍhaḥ- uddīptā sāttvikā yatra sa rūḍha iti bhaṇyate ||159||

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Mature mahābhāva: The condition in which the sāttvika transformations become fully radiant is called mature.

14.160

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यथा- उन्मीलत्-कलहꣳस-गद्गद-रवा कम्पातिविक्षोभतः सङ्कीर्णा पृथु-रोमहर्ष-गतिर् बाष्प-च्छटोद्गारिणी । जाड्योत्सेक-परिप्लुता कुवलयोल्लासꣳ मुहुर् बिभ्रती गोपीनाम् अनुरागिता-सरिद् इयꣳ रासे वितेने रसम् ॥१६०॥

yathā- unmīlat-kalahaṁsa-gadgada-ravā kampātivikṣobhataḥ saṅkīrṇā pṛthu-romaharṣa-gatir bāṣpa-cchaṭodgāriṇī | jāḍyotseka-pariplutā kuvalayollāsaṁ muhur bibhratī gopīnām anurāgitā-sarid iyaṁ rāse vitene rasam ||160||

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For example: In the rāsa dance, the river of the gopīs' ever-new attachment created rasa. It opened with the broken calls of royal swans, became turbulent from intense trembling, flowed in broad currents of horripilation, poured sprays of tears, flooded its banks with abundant inertia, and repeatedly bore the blossoming of blue lotuses.

14.161

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निमेषासहतासन्न-जनता-हृद्-विलोडनम् । कल्प-क्षणत्वꣳ खिन्नत्वꣳ तत्-सौख्ये’प्य् आर्ति-शङ्कया ॥१६१॥

nimeṣāsahatāsanna-janatā-hṛd-viloḍanam | kalpa-kṣaṇatvaṁ khinnatvaṁ tat-saukhye’py ārti-śaṅkayā ||161||

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Its characteristics include inability to tolerate even a blink, churning the hearts of people nearby, experiencing an age as a moment, and feeling distress from fear of the beloved's suffering even while he is happy;

14.162

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मोहाद्य्-अभावे’प्य् आत्मादि-सर्व-विस्मरणꣳ सदा । क्षणस्य कल्पेत्याद्या यत्र योग-वियोगयोः ॥१६२॥

mohādy-abhāve’py ātmādi-sarva-vismaraṇaṁ sadā | kṣaṇasya kalpetyādyā yatra yoga-viyogayoḥ ||162||

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continually forgetting oneself and everything else even without bewilderment or a similar cause; and, in meeting and separation respectively, experiencing a moment as an age and other such transformations.

14.163

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तत्र निमेषासहता, यथा श्री-दशमे (१०.८२.३८)- गोप्यश् च कृष्णम् उपलभ्य चिराद् अभीष्टꣳ यत्-प्रेक्षणे दृशिषु पक्ष्म-कृतꣳ शपन्ति । दृग्भिर् हृदी-कृतम् अलꣳ परिरभ्य सर्वास् तद्-भावम् आपुर् अपि नित्य-युजाꣳ दुरापम् ॥१६३॥

tatra nimeṣāsahatā, yathā śrī-daśame (10.82.38)- gopyaś ca kṛṣṇam upalabhya cirād abhīṣṭaṁ yat-prekṣaṇe dṛśiṣu pakṣma-kṛtaṁ śapanti | dṛgbhir hṛdī-kṛtam alaṁ parirabhya sarvās tad-bhāvam āpur api nitya-yujāṁ durāpam ||163||

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Inability to tolerate a blink, as in Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.82.38: At last regaining their long-desired Kṛṣṇa, the gopīs cursed the creator of eyelids whenever they looked at him. Taking him fully into their hearts through their eyes and embracing him there, they attained a state difficult even for those eternally joined to him to reach.

14.164

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आसन्न-जनता-हृद्-विलोडनꣳ, यथा- सख्यः प्रोक्ष्य कुरून् गुरु-क्षिति-भृताम् आघूर्णयन्ती शिरः स्वस्था विश्लथयन्त्य् अशेष-रमणीर् आप्लाव्य सर्वꣳ जनम् । गोपीनाम् अनुराग-सिन्धु-लहरी सत्यान्तरꣳ विक्रमैर् आक्रम्य स्तिमिताꣳ व्यधाद् अपि पराꣳ वैकुण्ठ-कण्ठ-श्रियम् ॥१६४॥

āsanna-janatā-hṛd-viloḍanaṁ, yathā- sakhyaḥ prokṣya kurūn guru-kṣiti-bhṛtām āghūrṇayantī śiraḥ svasthā viślathayanty aśeṣa-ramaṇīr āplāvya sarvaṁ janam | gopīnām anurāga-sindhu-laharī satyāntaraṁ vikramair ākramya stimitāṁ vyadhād api parāṁ vaikuṇṭha-kaṇṭha-śriyam ||164||

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Churning the hearts of nearby people: The wave from the ocean of the gopīs' ever-new attachment drenched the Kurus, made the heads of venerable kings reel, unsettled the composed, loosened every woman, and flooded all the people. By its powerful advances it entered Satyā's heart and even stilled the supreme beauty upon the neck of Vaikuṇṭha's Lord.

14.165

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कल्प-क्षणत्वम्, यथा- शरज्-ज्योत्स्नी रासे विधि-रजनि-रूपापि निमिषाद् अतिक्षुद्रा तासाꣳ यद् अजनि न तद् विस्मय-पदम् । सुखोत्सेकारम्भे निमिष-लव-कल्पाम् इव दशाꣳ महा-कल्पाकल्पाप्य् अहह लभते काल-कलना ॥१६५॥

kalpa-kṣaṇatvam, yathā- śaraj-jyotsnī rāse vidhi-rajani-rūpāpi nimiṣād atikṣudrā tāsāṁ yad ajani na tad vismaya-padam | sukhotsekārambhe nimiṣa-lava-kalpām iva daśāṁ mahā-kalpākalpāpy ahaha labhate kāla-kalanā ||165||

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Experiencing an age as a moment: That autumn moonlit night of the rāsa dance, though equal to a night of Brahmā, became less than an instant for them. This is no cause for wonder. At the rise of overwhelming happiness, even a great age takes on the measure of the smallest fraction of a moment.

14.166

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तत्-सौख्ये’प्य् आर्ति-शङ्कया खिन्नत्वम्, यथा श्री-दशमे (१०.३१.१९)- यत् ते सुजात-चरणाम्बु-रुहꣳ स्तनेषु भीताः शनैः प्रिय दधीमहि कर्कशेषु तेनाटवीम् अटसि तद् व्यथते न किꣳ स्वित् कूर्पादिभिर् भ्रमति धीर् भवद्-आयुषाꣳ नः ॥१६६॥

tat-saukhye’py ārti-śaṅkayā khinnatvam, yathā śrī-daśame (10.31.19)- yat te sujāta-caraṇāmbu-ruhaṁ staneṣu bhītāḥ śanaiḥ priya dadhīmahi karkaśeṣu tenāṭavīm aṭasi tad vyathate na kiṁ svit kūrpādibhir bhramati dhīr bhavad-āyuṣāṁ naḥ ||166||

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Distress from fear of his suffering even while he is happy, as in Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.31.19: Beloved, we fearfully place your tender lotus feet gently upon our hard breasts. You wander the forest with those feet; do pebbles and other sharp things not hurt them? Our minds reel, for you are our very life.

14.167

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मोहाद्य्-अभावे’पि सर्व-विस्मरणꣳ, यथा एकादशे (११.१२.१२)- ता नाविदन् मय्य् अनुषङ्ग-बद्ध- धियः स्वम् आत्मानम् अदस् तथेदम् यथा समाधौ मुनयो’ब्धि-तोये नद्यः प्रविष्टा इव नाम-रूपे ॥१६७॥

mohādy-abhāve’pi sarva-vismaraṇaṁ, yathā ekādaśe (11.12.12)- tā nāvidan mayy anuṣaṅga-baddha- dhiyaḥ svam ātmānam adas tathedam yathā samādhau munayo’bdhi-toye nadyaḥ praviṣṭā iva nāma-rūpe ||167||

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Forgetting everything even without bewilderment or another cause, as in the Eleventh Canto 11.12.12: Their minds bound to me through constant attachment, they knew neither themselves nor anything near or far, just as sages in samādhi, or rivers entering the ocean, lose name and form.

14.168

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क्षण-कल्पता, यथा तत्रैव (११.१२.११)- तास् ताः क्षपाः प्रेष्ठ-तमेन नीता मयैव वृन्दावन-गोचरेण । क्षणार्ध-वत् ताः पुनर् अङ्ग तासाꣳ हीना मया कल्प-समा बभूवुः ॥१६८॥

kṣaṇa-kalpatā, yathā tatraiva (11.12.11)- tās tāḥ kṣapāḥ preṣṭha-tamena nītā mayaiva vṛndāvana-gocareṇa | kṣaṇārdha-vat tāḥ punar aṅga tāsāṁ hīnā mayā kalpa-samā babhūvuḥ ||168||

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Experiencing a moment as an age, as in the same work, 11.12.11: Those nights passed with me, their dearest beloved, as I wandered within Vṛndāvana, seemed to them half a moment. But when deprived of me, dear one, those same nights became equal to an age.

14.169

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आद्य-शब्दाद् इह प्रोक्ता कृष्णाविर्भाव-कारिता । सम्भोग-भेदे विस्पष्टꣳ सा पुरस्तात् प्रवक्ष्यते ॥१६९॥

ādya-śabdād iha proktā kṛṣṇāvirbhāva-kāritā | sambhoga-bhede vispaṣṭaṁ sā purastāt pravakṣyate ||169||

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The word 'and others' includes the power to cause Kṛṣṇa to appear. This will be explained clearly later among the divisions of union.

14.170

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अथ अधिरूढः- रूढोक्तेभ्यो’नुभावेभ्यः काम् अप्य् आप्ता विशिष्टताम् । यत्रानुभावा दृश्यन्ते सो’धिरूढो निगद्यते ॥१७०॥

atha adhirūḍhaḥ- rūḍhoktebhyo’nubhāvebhyaḥ kām apy āptā viśiṣṭatām | yatrānubhāvā dṛśyante so’dhirūḍho nigadyate ||170||

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Now supremely mature mahābhāva: The state in which consequent expressions attain an extraordinary excellence beyond those described under mature mahābhāva is called supremely mature.

14.171

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यथा शिव-वाक्यम्- लोकातीतम् अजाण्ड-कोटिगम् अपि त्रैकालिकꣳ यत् सुखꣳ दुःखꣳ चेति पृथग् यदि स्फुटम् उभे ते गच्छतः कुटताम् । नैवाभास-तुलाꣳ शिवे तद् अपि तत् कुट-द्वयꣳ राधिका- प्रेमोद्यत्-सुख-दुःख-सिन्धु-भवयोर् विन्देत बिन्द्वोर् अपि ॥१७१॥

yathā śiva-vākyam- lokātītam ajāṇḍa-koṭigam api traikālikaṁ yat sukhaṁ duḥkhaṁ ceti pṛthag yadi sphuṭam ubhe te gacchataḥ kuṭatām | naivābhāsa-tulāṁ śive tad api tat kuṭa-dvayaṁ rādhikā- premodyat-sukha-duḥkha-sindhu-bhavayor vindeta bindvor api ||171||

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As stated by Śiva: Pārvatī, suppose all the joy and all the sorrow, past, present, and future, throughout tens of millions of universes beyond this world were separately gathered into two clear heaps. Even those two heaps could not equal the mere appearance of two drops from the oceans of joy and sorrow that arise from Rādhikā's love.

14.172

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मोदनो मादनश् चासाव् अधिरूढो द्विधोच्यते ॥१७२॥

modano mādanaś cāsāv adhirūḍho dvidhocyate ||172||

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Supremely mature mahābhāva is said to be twofold: modana and mādana.

14.173

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तत्र मोदनः- मोदनः स द्वयोर् यत्र सात्त्विकोद्दीप्त-सौष्ठवम् ॥१७३॥

tatra modanaḥ- modanaḥ sa dvayor yatra sāttvikoddīpta-sauṣṭhavam ||173||

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Modana: The state in which the fully radiant sāttvika transformations appear beautifully in both lovers is modana.

14.174

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यथा ललित-माधवे (८.९)- आतन्वन् कल-कण्ठ-नादम् अतुलꣳ स्तम्भ-श्रियोज्जृम्भितो भूयिष्ठोच्छलद्-अङ्कुरः फलितवान् स्वेदाम्बु-मुक्ता-फलैः । उद्यद्-बाष्प-मरन्द-भाग-विचलो’प्य् उत्कम्पवान् विभ्रमै राधा-माधवयोर् विराजति चिराद् उल्लास-कल्प-द्रुमः ॥१७४॥

yathā lalita-mādhave (8.9)- ātanvan kala-kaṇṭha-nādam atulaṁ stambha-śriyojjṛmbhito bhūyiṣṭhocchalad-aṅkuraḥ phalitavān svedāmbu-muktā-phalaiḥ | udyad-bāṣpa-maranda-bhāga-vicalo’py utkampavān vibhramai rādhā-mādhavayor virājati cirād ullāsa-kalpa-drumaḥ ||174||

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As in Lalita-mādhava 8.9: The wish-fulfilling tree of the delight of Rādhā and Mādhava shines after so long. Swelling with the beauty of stupefaction, it spreads the incomparable call of the cuckoo; it sprouts abundantly with horripilation; it bears pearl-fruits of perspiration; it trembles with playful movements; and it flows with the honey of rising tears.

14.175

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हरेर् यत्र स-कान्तस्य विक्षोभ-भर-कारिता । प्रेमोरु-सम्पद्-विख्यात-कान्तातिशयितादयः ॥१७५॥

harer yatra sa-kāntasya vikṣobha-bhara-kāritā | premoru-sampad-vikhyāta-kāntātiśayitādayaḥ ||175||

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Its effects include causing an abundance of agitation in Hari together with his beloveds, and surpassing even women renowned for possessing the immense wealth of love.

14.176

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राधिका-यूथ एवासौ मोदनो न तु सर्वतः । यः श्रीमान् ह्लादिनी-शक्तेः सुविलासः प्रियो वरः ॥१७६॥

rādhikā-yūtha evāsau modano na tu sarvataḥ | yaḥ śrīmān hlādinī-śakteḥ suvilāsaḥ priyo varaḥ ||176||

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This glorious modana appears only in Rādhikā's group, nowhere else. It is the finest and dearest play of the pleasure-giving potency.

14.177

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तत्र स-कान्तस्य हरेः क्षोभ-भर-कारिता, यथा- हन्त स्तम्भ-करम्बिता भुवि कुरोर् भद्रा सरस्वत्य् अभूद् बाष्पꣳ भास्करजा मुमोच तरसा सत्याभ्रमन् नर्मदा । भेजे भीष्म-सुता च वर्ण-विकृतिꣳ गाम्भीर्य-भाग् अप्य् असौ कृष्णोदन्वति राधिकाद्भुत-नदी-प्रेमोर्मिभिः सꣳवृते ॥१७७॥

tatra sa-kāntasya hareḥ kṣobha-bhara-kāritā, yathā- hanta stambha-karambitā bhuvi kuror bhadrā sarasvaty abhūd bāṣpaṁ bhāskarajā mumoca tarasā satyābhraman narmadā | bheje bhīṣma-sutā ca varṇa-vikṛtiṁ gāmbhīrya-bhāg apy asau kṛṣṇodanvati rādhikādbhuta-nadī-premormibhiḥ saṁvṛte ||177||

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Causing great agitation in Hari together with his beloveds: When the ocean Kṛṣṇa was surrounded by the waves of the wondrous river of Rādhikā's love, Bhadrā on the land of the Kurus became mixed with stupefaction like the Sarasvatī; Yamunā swiftly released tears; Satyā wandered like the Narmadā; and even grave Bhīṣma's daughter underwent a change of color.

14.178

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प्रेमोरु-सम्पद्वती-वृन्दातिशयित्वꣳ, यथा- अद्वैताद् गिरिजाꣳ हरार्ध-वपुषꣳ सख्यात् प्रियोरः-स्थिताꣳ लक्ष्मीम् अच्युत-चित्त-भृङ्ग-नलिनीꣳ सत्याꣳ च सौभाग्यतः । माधुर्यान् मधुरेश-जीवित-सखीꣳ चन्द्रावलीꣳ च क्षिपन् पश्यारुद्ध हरिꣳ प्रसार्य लहरीꣳ राधानुरागाम्बुधिः ॥१७८॥

premoru-sampadvatī-vṛndātiśayitvaṁ, yathā- advaitād girijāṁ harārdha-vapuṣaṁ sakhyāt priyoraḥ-sthitāṁ lakṣmīm acyuta-citta-bhṛṅga-nalinīṁ satyāṁ ca saubhāgyataḥ | mādhuryān madhureśa-jīvita-sakhīṁ candrāvalīṁ ca kṣipan paśyāruddha hariṁ prasārya laharīṁ rādhānurāgāmbudhiḥ ||178||

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Surpassing the entire host of women endowed with immense love: See how the ocean of Rādhā's ever-new attachment spreads its wave and checks Hari. Through unity it casts aside Pārvatī, who shares half of Śiva's body; through intimacy, Lakṣmī upon her beloved's chest, the lotus for Acyuta's mind-bee; through good fortune, Satyā; and through sweetness, Candrāvalī, the life-friend of Mathurā's Lord.

14.179

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मोदनो’यꣳ प्रविश्लेष-दशायाꣳ मोहनो भवेत् । यस्मिन् विरह-वैवश्यात् सूद्दीप्ता एव सात्त्विकाः ॥१७९॥

modano’yaṁ praviśleṣa-daśāyāṁ mohano bhavet | yasmin viraha-vaivaśyāt sūddīptā eva sāttvikāḥ ||179||

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During intense separation, this modana becomes mohana. In mohana, helplessness from separation produces only the supremely radiant sāttvika transformations.

14.180

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यथा- उद्यद्-वेपथु-वाद्यमान-दशना कण्ठ-स्थलान्तर् लुठज्- जल्पा गोकुल-मण्डलꣳ विदधती बाष्पैर् नदी-मातृकम् । राधा कण्टकितेन कण्टकि-फलꣳ गात्रेण धिक्-कुर्वती चित्रꣳ तद्-घन-राग-राशिभिर् अपि श्वेती-कृता वर्तते ॥१८०॥

yathā- udyad-vepathu-vādyamāna-daśanā kaṇṭha-sthalāntar luṭhaj- jalpā gokula-maṇḍalaṁ vidadhatī bāṣpair nadī-mātṛkam | rādhā kaṇṭakitena kaṇṭaki-phalaṁ gātreṇa dhik-kurvatī citraṁ tad-ghana-rāga-rāśibhir api śvetī-kṛtā vartate ||180||

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For example: Rādhā's teeth become instruments played by rising trembling, while words roll within her throat. With tears she makes the circle of Gokula into a land of rivers, and her thorn-covered body defeats a jackfruit. Astonishingly, despite her dense masses of deep passion, she has become white.

14.181

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अत्रानुभावा गोविन्द कान्ता-श्लिष्टे’पि मूर्च्छना । असह्य-दुःख-स्वीकाराद् अपि तत्-सुख-कामता ॥१८१॥

atrānubhāvā govinda kāntā-śliṣṭe’pi mūrcchanā | asahya-duḥkha-svīkārād api tat-sukha-kāmatā ||181||

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Its consequent expressions include making Govinda faint even while embraced by another beloved, accepting unbearable suffering while desiring only his happiness,

14.182

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ब्रह्माण्ड-क्षोभ-कारित्वꣳ तिरश्चाम् अपि रोदनम् । स्व-भूतैर् अपि तत्-सङ्ग-तृष्णा मृत्यु-प्रतिश्रवात् । दिव्योन्मादादयो’प्य् अन्ये विद्वद्भिर् अनुकीर्तिताः ॥१८२॥

brahmāṇḍa-kṣobha-kāritvaṁ tiraścām api rodanam | sva-bhūtair api tat-saṅga-tṛṣṇā mṛtyu-pratiśravāt | divyonmādādayo’py anye vidvadbhir anukīrtitāḥ ||182||

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agitating the universe, making even animals weep, thirsting for union with him through one's own elements after accepting death, divine madness, and other effects celebrated by the learned.

14.183

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प्रायो वृन्दावनेश्वर्याꣳ मोहनो’यम् उदञ्चति । सम्यग्-विलक्षणꣳ यस्य कार्यꣳ सञ्चारि-मोहतः ॥१८३॥

prāyo vṛndāvaneśvaryāṁ mohano’yam udañcati | samyag-vilakṣaṇaṁ yasya kāryaṁ sañcāri-mohataḥ ||183||

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This mohana generally arises in the queen of Vṛndāvana. Its effects are thoroughly distinct from those of bewilderment as a transitory state.

14.184

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तत्र कान्ताश्लिष्टे’पि हरौ मूर्च्छा-कारित्वꣳ, यथा पद्यावल्याम् (३७१)- रत्न-च्छाया-च्छुरित-जलधौ मन्दिरे द्वारकाया रुक्मिण्यापि प्रबल-पुलकोद्भेदम् आलिङ्गितस्य । विश्वꣳ पायान् मसृण-यमुना-तीर-वानीर-कुञ्जे राधा-केली-परिमल-भर-ध्यान-मूर्च्छा मुरारेः ॥१८४॥

tatra kāntāśliṣṭe’pi harau mūrcchā-kāritvaṁ, yathā padyāvalyām (371)- ratna-cchāyā-cchurita-jaladhau mandire dvārakāyā rukmiṇyāpi prabala-pulakodbhedam āliṅgitasya | viśvaṁ pāyān masṛṇa-yamunā-tīra-vānīra-kuñje rādhā-kelī-parimala-bhara-dhyāna-mūrcchā murāreḥ ||184||

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Making Hari faint even while embraced by another beloved, as in Padyāvalī 371: May Murāri's fainting protect the universe. Though embraced in a Dvārakā palace, within an ocean tinted by jeweled radiance, by Rukmiṇī erupting in powerful horripilation, he fainted while meditating upon the abundant fragrance of play with Rādhā in a smooth vañjula bower on Yamunā's bank.

14.185

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असह्य-दुःख-स्वीकारात् तत्-सुख-कामता- स्यान् नः सौख्यꣳ यद् अपि बलवद् गोष्ठम् आप्ते मुकुन्दे यद्य् अल्पापि क्षतिर् उदयते तस्य मागात् कदापि । अप्राप्ते’स्मिन् यद् अपि नगराद् आर्तिर् उग्रा भवेन् नः सौख्यꣳ तस्य स्फुरति हृदि चेत् तत्र वासꣳ करोतु ॥१८५॥

asahya-duḥkha-svīkārāt tat-sukha-kāmatā- syān naḥ saukhyaṁ yad api balavad goṣṭham āpte mukunde yady alpāpi kṣatir udayate tasya māgāt kadāpi | aprāpte’smin yad api nagarād ārtir ugrā bhaven naḥ saukhyaṁ tasya sphurati hṛdi cet tatra vāsaṁ karotu ||185||

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Desiring his happiness while accepting unbearable suffering: If our happiness would be powerful when Mukunda reaches the cowherd settlement, but the slightest harm might arise for him, then may he never come. Though fierce anguish would be ours if he did not return from the city, if happiness shines within his heart there, let him remain.

14.186

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ब्रह्माण्ड-क्षोभ-कारित्वꣳ, यथा- नारꣳ चुक्रोश चक्रꣳ फणि-कुलम् अभवद् व्याकुलꣳ स्वेदम् ऊहे वृन्दꣳ वृन्दारकाणाꣳ प्रचुरम् उदमुचन्न् अश्रु वैकुण्ठ-भाजः । राधायाश् चित्रम् ईश भ्रमति दिशि दिशि प्रेम-निःश्वास-धूमे पूर्णानन्दे’प्य् उषित्वा बहिर् इदम् अबहिश् चार्तम् आसीद् अजाण्डम् ॥१८६॥

brahmāṇḍa-kṣobha-kāritvaṁ, yathā- nāraṁ cukrośa cakraṁ phaṇi-kulam abhavad vyākulaṁ svedam ūhe vṛndaṁ vṛndārakāṇāṁ pracuram udamucann aśru vaikuṇṭha-bhājaḥ | rādhāyāś citram īśa bhramati diśi diśi prema-niḥśvāsa-dhūme pūrṇānande’py uṣitvā bahir idam abahiś cārtam āsīd ajāṇḍam ||186||

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Agitating the universe: In the smoke of sighs from Rādhā's love wandering in every direction, the waters cried aloud, the serpent races became agitated, and the host of gods perspired. The residents of Vaikuṇṭha released abundant tears. Though dwelling in complete bliss, the universe, outside and within, became distressed.

14.187

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यथा वा- और्व-स्तोमात् कटुर् अपि कथꣳ दुर्बलेनोरसा मे तापः प्रौढो हरि-विरहजः सह्यते तन् न जाने । निष्क्रान्ता चेद् भवति हृदयाद् यस्य धूम-च्छटापि ब्रह्माण्डानाꣳ सखि कुलम् अपि ज्वालया जाज्वलीति ॥१८७॥

yathā vā- aurva-stomāt kaṭur api kathaṁ durbalenorasā me tāpaḥ prauḍho hari-virahajaḥ sahyate tan na jāne | niṣkrāntā ced bhavati hṛdayād yasya dhūma-cchaṭāpi brahmāṇḍānāṁ sakhi kulam api jvālayā jājvalīti ||187||

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Or, for example: I do not know how my weak chest endures this mature heat born of separation from Hari, harsher than a host of submarine fires. If even a spray of its smoke should leave my heart, it would blaze forth and burn the entire multitude of universes.

14.188

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तिरश्चाम् अपि रोदनम्, यथा पद्यावल्याम् (३७३)- याते द्वारवती-पुरꣳ मुररिपौ तद्-वस्त्र-सꣳव्यानया कालिन्दी-तट-कुञ्ज-वञ्जुल-लताम् आलाम्ब्य सोत्कण्ठया । उद्गीतꣳ गुरु-बाष्प-गद्गद-गलत्-तारस्वरꣳ राधया येनान्तर्जलचारिभिर् जलचरैर् अप्य् उत्कम् उत्कूजितम् ॥१८८॥

tiraścām api rodanam, yathā padyāvalyām (373)- yāte dvāravatī-puraṁ muraripau tad-vastra-saṁvyānayā kālindī-taṭa-kuñja-vañjula-latām ālāmbya sotkaṇṭhayā | udgītaṁ guru-bāṣpa-gadgada-galat-tārasvaraṁ rādhayā yenāntarjalacāribhir jalacarair apy utkam utkūjitam ||188||

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Making even animals weep, as in Padyāvalī 373: When Mura's enemy went to Dvārakā city, Rādhā longingly grasped a vañjula vine in a bower on Yamunā's bank, wrapped herself in his garment, and sang in a high voice choked by heavy tears. Even the creatures moving beneath the water answered her with intense cries.

14.189

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मृत्यु-स्वीकारात् स्वभूतैर् अपि तत्-सङ्ग-तृष्णा, यथा तत्रैव (३३६)- पञ्चत्वꣳ तनुर् एतु भूत-निवहाः स्वाꣳशे विशन्तु स्फुटꣳ धातारꣳ प्रणिपत्य हन्त शिरसा तत्रापि याचे वरम् । तद्-वापीषु पयस् तदीय-मुकुरे ज्योतिस् तदीयाङ्गन- व्योम्नि व्योम तदीय-वर्त्मनि धरा तत्-ताल-वृन्ते’निलः ॥१८९॥

mṛtyu-svīkārāt svabhūtair api tat-saṅga-tṛṣṇā, yathā tatraiva (336)- pañcatvaṁ tanur etu bhūta-nivahāḥ svāṁśe viśantu sphuṭaṁ dhātāraṁ praṇipatya hanta śirasā tatrāpi yāce varam | tad-vāpīṣu payas tadīya-mukure jyotis tadīyāṅgana- vyomni vyoma tadīya-vartmani dharā tat-tāla-vṛnte’nilaḥ ||189||

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Thirsting for union through one's elements after accepting death, as in the same work, verse 336: Let this body enter the five elements and let those elements visibly merge into their respective sources. Bowing my head to Brahmā, I beg even then for this boon: may my water enter his ponds, my fire his mirror, my ether the courtyard of his home, my earth his pathway, and my air his palm-leaf fan.

14.190

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अथ दिव्योन्मादः- एतस्य मोहनाख्यस्य गतिꣳ कामप्य् उपेयुषः । भ्रमाभा कापि वैचित्री दिव्योन्माद इतीर्यते ॥१९०॥

atha divyonmādaḥ- etasya mohanākhyasya gatiṁ kāmapy upeyuṣaḥ | bhramābhā kāpi vaicitrī divyonmāda itīryate ||190||

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Now divine madness: The astonishing and seemingly delusive variety that appears when the state called mohana reaches an indescribable course is called divine madness.

14.191

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उद्घूर्णा-चित्र-जल्पाद्यास् तद्-भेदा बहवो मताः ॥१९१॥

udghūrṇā-citra-jalpādyās tad-bhedā bahavo matāḥ ||191||

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Its many divisions include restless bewilderment, varied delirious speech, and others.

14.192

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तत्र उद्घूर्णा- स्याद् विलक्षणम् उद्घूर्णा नाना-वैवश्य-चेष्टितम् ॥१९२॥

tatra udghūrṇā- syād vilakṣaṇam udghūrṇā nānā-vaivaśya-ceṣṭitam ||192||

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Restless bewilderment: Extraordinary activity arising from many kinds of helplessness is restless bewilderment.

14.193

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यथा- शय्याꣳ कुञ्ज-गृहे क्वचिद् वितनुते सा वास-सज्जायिता नीलाभ्रꣳ धृत-खण्डिता व्यवहृतिश् चण्डी क्वचित् तर्जति । आघूर्णत्यभिसार-सम्भ्रमवती ध्वान्ते क्वचिद् दारुणे राधा ते विरहोद्भ्रम-प्रमथिता धत्ते न काꣳ वा दशाम् ॥१९३॥

yathā- śayyāṁ kuñja-gṛhe kvacid vitanute sā vāsa-sajjāyitā nīlābhraṁ dhṛta-khaṇḍitā vyavahṛtiś caṇḍī kvacit tarjati | āghūrṇatyabhisāra-sambhramavatī dhvānte kvacid dāruṇe rādhā te virahodbhrama-pramathitā dhatte na kāṁ vā daśām ||193||

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For example: Somewhere she assumes the state of one dressed for her beloved and spreads a bed in the bower house. Elsewhere, acting like one whose beloved has gone to another, the fierce girl rebukes a dark cloud. Somewhere she reels through dreadful darkness with the agitation of a woman going to a rendezvous. Rādhā, churned by delusion in separation from you, enters every possible condition.

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मथुरा-नगरꣳ कृष्णे लब्धे ललित-माधवे । उद्घूर्णेयꣳ तृतीयाङ्के राधायाः स्फुटम् ईरिता ॥१९४॥

mathurā-nagaraṁ kṛṣṇe labdhe lalita-mādhave | udghūrṇeyaṁ tṛtīyāṅke rādhāyāḥ sphuṭam īritā ||194||

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This restless bewilderment of Rādhā is clearly described in the third act of Lalita-mādhava, when Kṛṣṇa has reached Mathurā city.

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अथ चित्र-जल्पः- प्रेष्ठस्य सुहृदालोके गूढ-रोषाभिजृम्भितः । भूरि-भाव-मयो जल्पो यस् तीव्रोत्कण्ठितान्तिमः ॥१९५॥

atha citra-jalpaḥ- preṣṭhasya suhṛdāloke gūḍha-roṣābhijṛmbhitaḥ | bhūri-bhāva-mayo jalpo yas tīvrotkaṇṭhitāntimaḥ ||195||

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Now varied delirious speech: Speech addressed to a friend of the beloved, swelling with concealed anger, filled with many emotions, and ending in intense longing is varied delirious speech.

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चित्र-जल्पो दशाङ्गो’यꣳ प्रजल्पः परिजल्पितम् । विजल्पोज्जल्प-सꣳजल्पा अवजल्पो’भिजल्पितम् । आजल्पः प्रतिजल्पश् च सुजल्पश् चेति कीर्तिताः ॥१९६॥

citra-jalpo daśāṅgo’yaṁ prajalpaḥ parijalpitam | vijalpojjalpa-saṁjalpā avajalpo’bhijalpitam | ājalpaḥ pratijalpaś ca sujalpaś ceti kīrtitāḥ ||196||

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Varied delirious speech has ten divisions: prajalpa, parijalpita, vijalpa, ujjalpa, saṁjalpa, avajalpa, abhijalpita, ājalpa, pratijalpa, and sujalpa.

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एष भ्रमर-गीताख्यो दशमे प्रकटीकृतः ॥१९७॥

eṣa bhramara-gītākhyo daśame prakaṭīkṛtaḥ ||197||

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These ten forms are manifested in the Tenth Canto in the passage known as the Song to the Bee.

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असङ्ख्य-भाव-वैचित्री चमत्कृति-सुदुस्तरः । अपि चेच् चित्रजल्पो’यꣳ मनाक् तद् अपि कथ्यते ॥१९८॥

asaṅkhya-bhāva-vaicitrī camatkṛti-sudustaraḥ | api cec citrajalpo’yaṁ manāk tad api kathyate ||198||

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This varied speech is difficult to cross in wonder because it contains limitless varieties of emotion. Even so, a slight explanation of it is now given.

14.199

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तत्र प्रजल्पः- असूयेर्ष्या-मद-युजा यो’वधीरण-मुद्रया । प्रियस्याकौशलोद्गारः प्रजल्पः स तु कीर्त्यते ॥१९९॥

tatra prajalpaḥ- asūyerṣyā-mada-yujā yo’vadhīraṇa-mudrayā | priyasyākauśalodgāraḥ prajalpaḥ sa tu kīrtyate ||199||

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Prajalpa: A declaration of the beloved's lack of skill, delivered with a gesture of contempt and joined with envy, jealousy, and intoxicated pride, is called prajalpa.

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यथा (१०.४७.१२)- मधुप कितव-बन्धो मा स्पृशाङ्घ्रिꣳ सपत्न्याः कुच-विलुलित-माला-कुङ्कुम-श्मश्रुभिर् नः । वहतु मधु-पतिस् तन्-मानिनीनाꣳ प्रसादꣳ यदु-सदसि विडम्ब्यꣳ यस्य दूतस् त्वम् ईदृक् ॥२००॥

yathā (10.47.12)- madhupa kitava-bandho mā spṛśāṅghriṁ sapatnyāḥ kuca-vilulita-mālā-kuṅkuma-śmaśrubhir naḥ | vahatu madhu-patis tan-māninīnāṁ prasādaṁ yadu-sadasi viḍambyaṁ yasya dūtas tvam īdṛk ||200||

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As in Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.47.12: Honeybee, companion of a cheat, do not touch our feet with your whiskers stained by the kuṅkuma from the garland crushed against our rival's breasts. Let the Lord of Madhu obtain the favor of those proud women in the Yadu assembly, where one such as you serves as his laughable messenger.

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अथ परिजल्पितम्- प्रभोर् निर्दयता-शाठ्य-चापलाद्य्-उपपादनात् । स्व-विचक्षणता-व्यक्तिर् भङ्ग्या स्यात् परिजल्पितम् ॥२०१॥

atha parijalpitam- prabhor nirdayatā-śāṭhya-cāpalādy-upapādanāt | sva-vicakṣaṇatā-vyaktir bhaṅgyā syāt parijalpitam ||201||

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Parijalpita: Speech that indirectly reveals one's own discernment by establishing the lord's cruelty, deceit, fickleness, and similar defects is parijalpita.

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यथा (१०.४७.१३)- सकृद् अधर-सुधाꣳ स्वाꣳ मोहिनीꣳ पाययित्वा सुमनस इव सद्यस् तत्यजे’स्मान् भवादृक् । परिचरति कथꣳ तत्-पाद-पद्मꣳ नु पद्मा ह्य् अपि बत हृत-चेता ह्य् उत्तमः-श्लोक-जल्पैः ॥२०२॥

yathā (10.47.13)- sakṛd adhara-sudhāṁ svāṁ mohinīṁ pāyayitvā sumanasa iva sadyas tatyaje’smān bhavādṛk | paricarati kathaṁ tat-pāda-padmaṁ nu padmā hy api bata hṛta-cetā hy uttamaḥ-śloka-jalpaiḥ ||202||

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As in 10.47.13: Like you, he made us drink just once the enchanting nectar of his own lips and then immediately abandoned us, as one abandons flowers. How does Goddess Padmā continue serving his lotus feet? Alas, even her heart must have been stolen by Uttamaśloka's speech.

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अथ विजल्पः- व्यक्तयासूयया गूढ-मान-मुद्रान्तरालया । अघद्विषि कटाक्षोक्तिर् विजल्पो विदुषाꣳ मतः ॥२०३॥

atha vijalpaḥ- vyaktayāsūyayā gūḍha-māna-mudrāntarālayā | aghadviṣi kaṭākṣoktir vijalpo viduṣāṁ mataḥ ||203||

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Vijalpa: A sidelong statement about Agha's enemy, marked by clearly manifest envy while loving resentment remains concealed within, is considered vijalpa by the learned.

14.204

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यथा (१०.४७.१४)- किम् इह बहु षडङ्घ्रे गायसि त्वꣳ यदूनाम् अधिपतिम् अगृहाणाम् अग्रतो नः पुराणम् । विजय-सख-सखीनाꣳ गीयताꣳ तत्-प्रसङ्गः क्षपित-कुच-रुजस् ते कल्पयन्तीष्टम् इष्टाः ॥२०४॥

yathā (10.47.14)- kim iha bahu ṣaḍaṅghre gāyasi tvaṁ yadūnām adhipatim agṛhāṇām agrato naḥ purāṇam | vijaya-sakha-sakhīnāṁ gīyatāṁ tat-prasaṅgaḥ kṣapita-kuca-rujas te kalpayantīṣṭam iṣṭāḥ ||204||

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As in 10.47.14: Six-legged creature, why sing so much here before us homeless women about that ancient lord of the Yadus? Sing of him before the companions of Arjuna's friend. His beloveds will reward you as you desire, for he has relieved the pain of their breasts.

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अथ उज्जल्पः- हरेः कुहकताख्यानꣳ गर्व-गर्भितयेर्ष्यया । सासूयश् च तद्-आक्षेपो धीरैर् उज्जल्प ईर्यते ॥२०५॥

atha ujjalpaḥ- hareḥ kuhakatākhyānaṁ garva-garbhitayerṣyayā | sāsūyaś ca tad-ākṣepo dhīrair ujjalpa īryate ||205||

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Ujjalpa: The wise call a description of Hari's trickery, joined with envy pregnant with pride, and an envious reproach of him ujjalpa.

14.206

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यथा (१०.४७.१५)- दिवि भुवि च रसायाꣳ काः स्त्रियस् तद्-दुरापाः कपट-रुचिर-हास-भ्रू-विजृम्भस्य याः स्युः । चरण-रज उपास्ते यस्य भूतिर् वयꣳ का अपि च कृपण-पक्षे ह्य् उत्तमः-श्लोक-शब्दः ॥२०६॥

yathā (10.47.15)- divi bhuvi ca rasāyāṁ kāḥ striyas tad-durāpāḥ kapaṭa-rucira-hāsa-bhrū-vijṛmbhasya yāḥ syuḥ | caraṇa-raja upāste yasya bhūtir vayaṁ kā api ca kṛpaṇa-pakṣe hy uttamaḥ-śloka-śabdaḥ ||206||

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As in 10.47.15: What women in heaven, on earth, or beneath it are unattainable for him when his deceitful and charming smile makes his eyebrows blossom? Goddess Lakṣmī worships the dust of his feet. What are we? Yet the title Uttamaśloka does indeed mean that he shows mercy to the wretched.

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अथ सꣳजल्पः- सोल्लुण्ठया गहनया कयाप्य् आक्षेप-मुद्रया । तस्याकृतज्ञताद्य्-उक्तिः सꣳजल्पः कथितो बुधैः ॥२०७॥

atha saṁjalpaḥ- solluṇṭhayā gahanayā kayāpy ākṣepa-mudrayā | tasyākṛtajñatādy-uktiḥ saṁjalpaḥ kathito budhaiḥ ||207||

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Saṁjalpa: The wise call speech describing his ingratitude and similar faults through a deeply sarcastic gesture of reproach saṁjalpa.

14.208

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यथा (१०.४७.१६)- विसृज शिरसि पादꣳ वेद्म्य् अहꣳ चाटु-कारैर् अनुनय-विदुषस् ते’भ्येत्य दौत्यैर् मुकुन्दात् । स्व-कृत इह विसृष्टापत्य-पत्य्-अन्य-लोका व्यसृजद् अकृत-चेताः किꣳ नु सन्धेयम् अस्मिन् ॥२०८॥

yathā (10.47.16)- visṛja śirasi pādaṁ vedmy ahaṁ cāṭu-kārair anunaya-viduṣas te’bhyetya dautyair mukundāt | sva-kṛta iha visṛṣṭāpatya-paty-anya-lokā vyasṛjad akṛta-cetāḥ kiṁ nu sandheyam asmin ||208||

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As in 10.47.16: Take your foot from my head. I know the flattering arts of Mukunda and how well you, his messenger, have learned to conciliate. We abandoned children, husbands, and everyone else here for his sake, yet hard-hearted Kṛṣṇa abandoned us. What reconciliation can there be with him?

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अथ अवजल्पः- हरौ काठिन्य-कामित्व-धौर्त्याद् आसक्त्य-योग्यता । यत्र सेर्ष्यꣳ भियेवोक्ता सो’वजल्पः सताꣳ मतः ॥२०९॥

atha avajalpaḥ- harau kāṭhinya-kāmitva-dhaurtyād āsaktya-yogyatā | yatra serṣyaṁ bhiyevoktā so’vajalpaḥ satāṁ mataḥ ||209||

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Avajalpa: Speech that, with jealous fear, declares Hari unfit for attachment because of his hardness, lust, deceit, and similar traits is regarded by the saints as avajalpa.

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यथा (१०.४७.१७)- मृगयुर् इव कपीन्द्रꣳ विव्यधे लुब्ध-धर्मा स्त्रियम् अकृत विरूपाꣳ स्त्री-जितः काम-यानाम् । बलिम् अपि बलिम् अत्त्वावेष्टयद् ध्वाङ्क्ष-वद् यस् तद् अलम् असित-सख्यैर् दुस्त्यजस् तत्-कथार्थः ॥२१०॥

yathā (10.47.17)- mṛgayur iva kapīndraṁ vivyadhe lubdha-dharmā striyam akṛta virūpāṁ strī-jitaḥ kāma-yānām | balim api balim attvāveṣṭayad dhvāṅkṣa-vad yas tad alam asita-sakhyair dustyajas tat-kathārthaḥ ||210||

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As in 10.47.17: Like a hunter he wounded the monkey king, following a hunter's cruel dharma; conquered by a woman, he disfigured another woman driven by desire; and after accepting Bali's offering like a crow eating a sacrifice, he bound him. Enough of friendship with that dark one, though the meaning of his stories is impossible to abandon.

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अथ अभिजल्पितम्- भङ्ग्या त्यागौचिती तस्य खगानाम् अपि खेदनात् । यत्र सानुशयꣳ प्रोक्ता तद् भवेद् अभिजल्पितम् ॥२११॥

atha abhijalpitam- bhaṅgyā tyāgaucitī tasya khagānām api khedanāt | yatra sānuśayaṁ proktā tad bhaved abhijalpitam ||211||

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Abhijalpita: Speech that indirectly declares it proper to abandon him because even birds are distressed by him, while expressing regret, is abhijalpita.

14.212

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यथा (१०.४७.१८)- यद्-अनुचरित-लीला-कर्ण-पीयूष-विप्रुट्- सकृद्-अदन-विधूत-द्वन्द्व-धर्मा विनष्टाः । सपदि गृह-कुटुम्बꣳ दीनम् उत्सृज्य दीना बहव इह विहङ्गा भिक्षु-चर्याꣳ चरन्ति ॥२१२॥

yathā (10.47.18)- yad-anucarita-līlā-karṇa-pīyūṣa-vipruṭ- sakṛd-adana-vidhūta-dvandva-dharmā vinaṣṭāḥ | sapadi gṛha-kuṭumbaṁ dīnam utsṛjya dīnā bahava iha vihaṅgā bhikṣu-caryāṁ caranti ||212||

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As in 10.47.18: Many pitiable birds have tasted just once a drop of the nectar for the ears that is his narrated play. Their worldly dualities were shaken away and they were ruined; immediately abandoning their poor homes and families, they wander here living as mendicants.

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अथ आजल्पः- जैह्म्यꣳ तस्यार्तिदत्वꣳ च निर्वेदाद् यत्र कीर्तितम् । भङ्ग्यान्य-सुखदत्वꣳ च स आजल्प उदीरितः ॥२१३॥

atha ājalpaḥ- jaihmyaṁ tasyārtidatvaṁ ca nirvedād yatra kīrtitam | bhaṅgyānya-sukhadatvaṁ ca sa ājalpa udīritaḥ ||213||

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Ājalpa: Speech born of self-disgust that describes his crookedness and the suffering he causes, while indirectly admitting that he gives happiness to others, is called ājalpa.

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यथा (१०.४७.१९)- वयम् ऋतम् इव जिह्म-व्याहृतꣳ श्रद्दधानाः कुलिक-रुतम् इवाज्ञाः कृष्ण-वध्वो हरिण्यः ददृशुर् असकृद् एतत् तन्-नख-स्पर्श-तीव्र- स्मर-रुज उपमन्त्रिन् भण्यताम् अन्य-वार्ता ॥२१४॥

yathā (10.47.19)- vayam ṛtam iva jihma-vyāhṛtaṁ śraddadhānāḥ kulika-rutam ivājñāḥ kṛṣṇa-vadhvo hariṇyaḥ dadṛśur asakṛd etat tan-nakha-sparśa-tīvra- smara-ruja upamantrin bhaṇyatām anya-vārtā ||214||

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As in 10.47.19: Like the ignorant deer who trust a hunter's song, we wives of Kṛṣṇa believed his crooked speech as though it were true. Repeatedly we experienced the sharp pain of Love caused by the touch of his nails. Messenger, speak of something else.

14.215

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अथ प्रतिजल्पः- दुस्त्यज-द्वन्द्व-भावे’स्मिन् प्राप्तिर् नार्हेत्य् अनुद्धतम् । दूत-सम्माननेनोक्तꣳ यत्र स प्रतिजल्पकः ॥२१५॥

atha pratijalpaḥ- dustyaja-dvandva-bhāve’smin prāptir nārhety anuddhatam | dūta-sammānanenoktaṁ yatra sa pratijalpakaḥ ||215||

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Pratijalpa: Speech that respectfully honors the messenger and humbly declares that reunion is unfitting in this relationship of inseparable duality is pratijalpa.

14.216

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यथा (१०.४७.२०)- प्रिय-सख पुनर् आगाः प्रेयसा प्रेषितः किꣳ वरय किम् अनुरुन्धे माननीयो’सि मे’ङ्ग । नयसि कथम् इहास्मान् दुस्त्यज-द्वन्द्व-पार्श्वꣳ सततम् उरसि सौम्य श्रीर् वधूः साकम् आस्ते ॥२१६॥

yathā (10.47.20)- priya-sakha punar āgāḥ preyasā preṣitaḥ kiṁ varaya kim anurundhe mānanīyo’si me’ṅga | nayasi katham ihāsmān dustyaja-dvandva-pārśvaṁ satatam urasi saumya śrīr vadhūḥ sākam āste ||216||

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As in 10.47.20: Dear companion, have you returned, sent again by my beloved? Ask what you desire. You are worthy of my respect, friend. But how will you take us to the side of that one so difficult to abandon, when his bride Śrī always remains with him upon his chest?

14.217

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अथ सुजल्पः- यत्रार्जवात् स-गाम्भीर्यꣳ स-दैन्यꣳ सह-चापलम् । सोत्कण्ठꣳ च हरिः पृष्टः स सुजल्पो निगद्यते ॥२१७॥

atha sujalpaḥ- yatrārjavāt sa-gāmbhīryaṁ sa-dainyaṁ saha-cāpalam | sotkaṇṭhaṁ ca hariḥ pṛṣṭaḥ sa sujalpo nigadyate ||217||

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Now sujalpa: Speech in which Hari is questioned with simplicity joined by gravity, humility joined by restlessness, and intense longing is called sujalpa.

14.218

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यथा (१०.४७.२१)- अपि बत मधु-पुर्याम् आर्य-पुत्रो’धुनास्ते स्मरति स पितृ-गेहान् सौम्य बन्धूꣳश् च गोपान् । क्वचिद् अपि स कथाꣳ नः किङ्करीणाꣳ गृणीते भुजम् अगुरु-सुगन्धꣳ मूर्ध्न्य् अधास्यत् कदा नु ॥२१८॥

yathā (10.47.21)- api bata madhu-puryām ārya-putro’dhunāste smarati sa pitṛ-gehān saumya bandhūṁś ca gopān | kvacid api sa kathāṁ naḥ kiṅkarīṇāṁ gṛṇīte bhujam aguru-sugandhaṁ mūrdhny adhāsyat kadā nu ||218||

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As in Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.47.21: Alas, does the noble son now remain in Mathurā? Gentle one, does he remember his father's homes and his cowherd relatives? Does he ever speak of us maidservants? When will he place his aguru-fragrant arm upon our heads?

14.219

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अथ मादनः- सर्व-भावोद्गमोल्लासी मादनो’यꣳ परात् परः । राजते ह्लादिनी-सारो राधायाम् एव यः सदा ॥२१९॥

atha mādanaḥ- sarva-bhāvodgamollāsī mādano’yaṁ parāt paraḥ | rājate hlādinī-sāro rādhāyām eva yaḥ sadā ||219||

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Now mādana: Beyond every other supreme state, mādana joyfully manifests the rising of all emotions. It is the essence of the pleasure-giving potency and eternally shines in Rādhā alone.

14.220

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यथा- आसृष्टेर् अक्षयिष्णुꣳ हृदय-विधु-मणि-द्रावणꣳ वक्रिमाणꣳ पूर्णत्वे’प्य् उद्वहन्तꣳ निज-रुचि-घटया साध्वसꣳ ध्वꣳसयन्तम् । तन्वानꣳ शꣳ प्रदोषे धृत-नव-नवता-सम्पदꣳ मादनत्वा- दद्वैतꣳ नौमि राधा-दनुज-विजयिनोर् अद्भुतꣳ भाव-चन्द्रम् ॥२२०॥

yathā- āsṛṣṭer akṣayiṣṇuṁ hṛdaya-vidhu-maṇi-drāvaṇaṁ vakrimāṇaṁ pūrṇatve’py udvahantaṁ nija-ruci-ghaṭayā sādhvasaṁ dhvaṁsayantam | tanvānaṁ śaṁ pradoṣe dhṛta-nava-navatā-sampadaṁ mādanatvā- dadvaitaṁ naumi rādhā-danuja-vijayinor adbhutaṁ bhāva-candram ||220||

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For example: I praise the wondrous and nondual moon of emotion belonging to Rādhā and the demon's conqueror. From the beginning of creation it never wanes; its crookedness melts the moonstone of the heart; even at fullness it destroys fear through the multitude of its own rays; at dusk it extends auspiciousness; and through mādana it possesses the wealth of perpetual newness.

14.221

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अत्रेर्ष्याया अयोग्ये’पि प्रबलेर्ष्या-विधायिता । सदा-भोगे’पि तद्-गन्ध-मात्राधार-स्तवादयः ॥२२१॥

atrerṣyāyā ayogye’pi prabalerṣyā-vidhāyitā | sadā-bhoge’pi tad-gandha-mātrādhāra-stavādayaḥ ||221||

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Its characteristics include producing powerful jealousy even toward an unsuitable object, and, despite continuous enjoyment, praising supports that bear merely the beloved's fragrance.

14.222

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अथ अयोग्ये’पीर्ष्या, यथा दान-केलि-कौमुद्याम् (९२)- विशुद्धाभिः सार्धꣳ व्रज-हरिण-नेत्राभिर् अनिशꣳ त्वम् अद्धा विद्वेषꣳ किम् इति वनमाले रचयसि । तृणीकुर्वत्य् अस्मान् वपुर् अघरिपोर् आशिखम् इदꣳ परिष्वज्यापादꣳ महति हृदये या विहरसि ॥२२२॥

atha ayogye’pīrṣyā, yathā dāna-keli-kaumudyām (92)- viśuddhābhiḥ sārdhaṁ vraja-hariṇa-netrābhir aniśaṁ tvam addhā vidveṣaṁ kim iti vanamāle racayasi | tṛṇīkurvaty asmān vapur agharipor āśikham idaṁ pariṣvajyāpādaṁ mahati hṛdaye yā viharasi ||222||

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Jealousy even toward an unsuitable object, as in Dāna-keli-kaumudī 92: Forest garland, why do you openly maintain hostility day and night toward the pure doe-eyed women of Vraja? Disregarding us, you sport upon his broad chest and embrace Agha's enemy's body from head to foot.

14.223

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सदा-भोगे’पि तद्-गन्ध-मात्राधार-स्तुतिर्, यथा श्री-दशमे (१०.२१.१७)- पूर्णाः पुलिन्द्य उरुगाय-पदाब्ज-राग- श्री-कुङ्कुमेन दयिता-स्तन-मण्डितेन । तद्-दर्शन-स्मर-रुजस् तृण-रूषितेन लिम्पन्त्य आनन-कुचेषु जुहुस् तद्-आधिम् ॥२२३॥

sadā-bhoge’pi tad-gandha-mātrādhāra-stutir, yathā śrī-daśame (10.21.17)- pūrṇāḥ pulindya urugāya-padābja-rāga- śrī-kuṅkumena dayitā-stana-maṇḍitena | tad-darśana-smara-rujas tṛṇa-rūṣitena limpantya ānana-kuceṣu juhus tad-ādhim ||223||

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Praise of a support bearing merely his fragrance despite continuous enjoyment, as in Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.21.17: The Pulinda women became fulfilled by the splendid kuṅkuma from the lotus feet of the greatly praised Lord, which had adorned his beloved's breasts and then colored the grass. Suffering from Love upon seeing it, they smeared it upon their faces and breasts and abandoned their anguish.

14.224

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यथा वा- दुष्करꣳ कतर-दालि मालती कोमलेयम् अकरोत् तपः पुरा । हन्त गोष्ठ-पति-नन्दनोपमꣳ या तमालम् अमलोपगूहते ॥२२४॥

yathā vā- duṣkaraṁ katara-dāli mālatī komaleyam akarot tapaḥ purā | hanta goṣṭha-pati-nandanopamaṁ yā tamālam amalopagūhate ||224||

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Or, for example: Friend, what exceedingly difficult austerity did this tender mālatī vine perform in the past? Alas, spotless and lovely, she embraces a tamāla tree resembling the son of the cowherd lord.

14.225

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योग एव भवेद् एष विचित्रः को’पि मादनः । यद्-विलासा विराजन्ते नित्य-लीलाः सहस्रधा ॥२२५॥

yoga eva bhaved eṣa vicitraḥ ko’pi mādanaḥ | yad-vilāsā virājante nitya-līlāḥ sahasradhā ||225||

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This indescribably wondrous mādana exists only in union. Its playful expressions shine as eternal pastimes in thousands of forms.

14.226

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मादनस्य गतिः सुष्ठु मदनस्येव दुर्गमा । न निर्वक्तुꣳ भवेच् छक्या तेनासौ मुनिनाप्य् अलम् ॥२२६॥

mādanasya gatiḥ suṣṭhu madanasyeva durgamā | na nirvaktuṁ bhavec chakyā tenāsau munināpy alam ||226||

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The course of mādana, like that of Madana himself, is exceedingly difficult to enter. Even the sage Bharata could not adequately describe it.

14.227

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किꣳ च- रागानुरागताम् आदौ स्नेहः प्राप्यैव सत्वरम् । मानत्वꣳ प्रणयत्वꣳ च क्वचित् पश्चात् प्रपद्यते ॥२२७॥

kiṁ ca- rāgānurāgatām ādau snehaḥ prāpyaiva satvaram | mānatvaṁ praṇayatvaṁ ca kvacit paścāt prapadyate ||227||

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Furthermore, affection may first swiftly attain passion and ever-new attachment, and only later in some cases assume loving resentment and intimacy.

14.228

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अत एवात्र शास्त्रेषु श्रूयते राधिकादिषु । पूर्व-राग-प्रसङ्गे’पि प्रकटꣳ राग-लक्षणम् ॥२२८॥

ata evātra śāstreṣu śrūyate rādhikādiṣu | pūrva-rāga-prasaṅge’pi prakaṭaṁ rāga-lakṣaṇam ||228||

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For that very reason, in the scriptures one hears the clear characteristics of passion in Rādhikā and others even within accounts of preliminary love.

14.229

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स्फुरन्ति व्रज-देवीषु परा भाव-भिदाश् च याः । तास् तर्कागोचरतया न सम्यग् इह वर्णिताः ॥२२९॥

sphuranti vraja-devīṣu parā bhāva-bhidāś ca yāḥ | tās tarkāgocaratayā na samyag iha varṇitāḥ ||229||

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Other supreme divisions of emotion also shine within the goddesses of Vraja. Because they lie beyond the reach of reason, they have not been fully described here.

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साधारण्याꣳ रताव् एव धूमायिततया मताः । ज्वलितास् तु रति-प्रेम्णोर् दीप्ताः स्नेहादि-पञ्चसु । रूढे भावे तथोद्दीप्ताः सुदीप्ता मोहनादिषु ॥२३०॥

sādhāraṇyāṁ ratāv eva dhūmāyitatayā matāḥ | jvalitās tu rati-premṇor dīptāḥ snehādi-pañcasu | rūḍhe bhāve tathoddīptāḥ sudīptā mohanādiṣu ||230||

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The sāttvika transformations are generally smoky only in common attraction, blazing in attraction and love, radiant in the five stages beginning with affection, fully radiant in mature mahābhāva, and supremely radiant in mohana and the higher states.

14.231

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इयꣳ प्रायिकता किन्तु श्रेष्ठ-मध्यादि-भारतः । देश-काल-जनादीनाꣳ क्वाप्य् एषाꣳ स्याद् विपर्ययम् ॥२३१॥

iyaṁ prāyikatā kintu śreṣṭha-madhyādi-bhārataḥ | deśa-kāla-janādīnāṁ kvāpy eṣāṁ syād viparyayam ||231||

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This is the general rule. According to superior, intermediate, or lesser persons and differences of place, time, individuals, and other conditions, the sequence may sometimes be reversed.

14.232

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आद्या प्रेमान्तिमाꣳ तत्रानुरागान्ताꣳ समञ्जसा । रतिर् भावान्तिमाꣳ सीमाꣳ समर्थैव प्रपद्यन्ते ॥२३२॥

ādyā premāntimāṁ tatrānurāgāntāṁ samañjasā | ratir bhāvāntimāṁ sīmāṁ samarthaiva prapadyante ||232||

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Common attraction reaches as far as love, congruous attraction as far as ever-new attachment, and fully capable attraction alone reaches the ultimate boundary of bhāva.

14.233

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रतिर् नर्म-वयस्यानाम् अनुरागान्तिमाꣳ स्थितिम् । तेष्व् एव सुबलादीनाꣳ भावान्ताम् एव गच्छति ॥२३३॥

ratir narma-vayasyānām anurāgāntimāṁ sthitim | teṣv eva subalādīnāṁ bhāvāntām eva gacchati ||233||

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The attraction of Kṛṣṇa's playful companions reaches the final state of ever-new attachment. Among those very companions, the attraction of Subala and others reaches all the way to bhāva.