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Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi · Chapter 15

Divisions of Mādhura-rasa

Unit 15 of 1515.115.c2260 source entries

15.1

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स विप्रलम्भः सम्भोग इति द्वेधोज्ज्वलो मतः ॥१॥

sa vipralambhaḥ sambhoga iti dvedhojjvalo mataḥ ||1||

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Radiant romantic rasa is considered twofold: separation and union.

15.2

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तत्र विप्रलम्भः- यूनोर् अयुक्तयोर् भावो युक्तयोर् वा तयोर् मिथः । अभीष्टालिङ्गनादीनाम् अनवाप्तौ प्रकृष्यते । स विप्रलम्भो विज्ञेयः सम्भोगोन्नति-कारकः ॥२॥

tatra vipralambhaḥ- yūnor ayuktayor bhāvo yuktayor vā tayor mithaḥ | abhīṣṭāliṅganādīnām anavāptau prakṛṣyate | sa vipralambho vijñeyaḥ sambhogonnati-kārakaḥ ||2||

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Separation: When two young lovers have not yet met, or when they have met but do not attain their desired embraces and other expressions of love, their emotion intensifies. This is known as separation, and it elevates the experience of union.

15.3

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तथा चोक्तम् [सरस्वती-कण्ठाभरण ५.५२]- न विना विप्रलम्भेन सम्भोगः पुष्टिम् अश्नुते । काषायिते हि वस्त्रादौ भूयान् एवाभिवर्धते ॥३॥

tathā coktam [sarasvatī-kaṇṭhābharaṇa 5.52]- na vinā vipralambhena sambhogaḥ puṣṭim aśnute | kāṣāyite hi vastrādau bhūyān evābhivardhate ||3||

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Thus it is said in Sarasvatī-kaṇṭhābharaṇa 5.52: Without separation, union does not attain fullness. Color becomes much stronger upon cloth and other materials that have first been treated with astringent dye.

15.4

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पूर्व-रागस् तथा मानः प्रेम-वैचित्त्यम् इत्य् अपि । प्रवासश् चेति कथितो विप्रलम्भश् चतुर्-विधः ॥४॥

pūrva-rāgas tathā mānaḥ prema-vaicittyam ity api | pravāsaś ceti kathito vipralambhaś catur-vidhaḥ ||4||

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Separation is described as fourfold: preliminary love, loving resentment, bewilderment within love, and residence far away.

15.5

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तत्र पूर्व-रागः- रतिर् या सङ्गमात् पूर्वꣳ दर्शन-श्रवणादि-जा । तयोर् उन्मीलति प्राज्ञैः पूर्व-रागः स उच्यते ॥५॥

tatra pūrva-rāgaḥ- ratir yā saṅgamāt pūrvaṁ darśana-śravaṇādi-jā | tayor unmīlati prājñaiḥ pūrva-rāgaḥ sa ucyate ||5||

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Preliminary love: The attraction that arises between the two lovers from seeing, hearing, or another cause before their first meeting is called preliminary love by the wise.

15.6

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तत्र दर्शनात्- साक्षात् कृष्णस्य चित्रे च स्यात् स्वप्नादौ च दर्शनम् ॥६॥

tatra darśanāt- sākṣāt kṛṣṇasya citre ca syāt svapnādau ca darśanam ||6||

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From seeing: Seeing Kṛṣṇa may occur directly, in a picture, in a dream, or by similar means.

15.7

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तत्र साक्षात्, यथा पद्यावल्याम् (१५९)- इन्दीवरोदर-सहोदर-मेदुर-श्री-र् वासो द्रवत्-कनक-वृन्द-निभꣳ दधानः । आमुक्त-मौक्तिक-मनोहर-हार-वक्षाः को’यꣳ युवा जगद्-अनङ्ग-मयꣳ करोति ॥७॥

tatra sākṣāt, yathā padyāvalyām (159)- indīvarodara-sahodara-medura-śrī-r vāso dravat-kanaka-vṛnda-nibhaṁ dadhānaḥ | āmukta-mauktika-manohara-hāra-vakṣāḥ ko’yaṁ yuvā jagad-anaṅga-mayaṁ karoti ||7||

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Directly, as in Padyāvalī 159: Who is this young man, endowed with dense beauty like the interior of a blue lotus, wearing a garment like a mass of liquid gold, his chest adorned by a captivating necklace of large pearls, who fills the entire world with Love?

15.8

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चित्रे, यथा विदग्ध-माधवे (२.२३)- शिशिरय दृशौ दृष्ट्वा दिव्यꣳ किशोरम् इतीक्षितः परिजल्पन-गिराꣳ विश्रम्भात् त्वꣳ विलास-फलाङ्कितः । शिव शिव कथꣳ जानीमस् त्वाम् अवक्र-धियो वयꣳ निविड-बडवा-वह्नि-ज्वाला-कलाप-विकासिनम् ॥८॥

citre, yathā vidagdha-mādhave (2.23)- śiśiraya dṛśau dṛṣṭvā divyaṁ kiśoram itīkṣitaḥ parijalpana-girāṁ viśrambhāt tvaṁ vilāsa-phalāṅkitaḥ | śiva śiva kathaṁ jānīmas tvām avakra-dhiyo vayaṁ niviḍa-baḍavā-vahni-jvālā-kalāpa-vikāsinam ||8||

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In a picture, as in Vidagdha-mādhava 2.23: 'Cool your eyes by seeing this divine young man.' You looked at me with such trustworthy words of friendly persuasion, your surface marked by playful beauty. Śiva, Śiva! Straight-minded women that we are, how could we know you held within you a dense multitude of flames from the submarine fire?

15.9

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स्वप्ने, यथा- स्वप्ने दृष्ट्वा सहचरि सरित्-कासरी श्याम-नीरा तीरे तस्याः क्वणित-मधुपा माधवी-कुञ्ज-शाला । तस्याꣳ कान्तꣳ कपिश-जघनो ध्वान्त-राशिः शरीरी चित्रꣳ चन्द्रावलिम् अपि स माꣳ पातुम् इच्छन्न् अरौत्सीत् ॥९॥

svapne, yathā- svapne dṛṣṭvā sahacari sarit-kāsarī śyāma-nīrā tīre tasyāḥ kvaṇita-madhupā mādhavī-kuñja-śālā | tasyāṁ kāntaṁ kapiśa-jaghano dhvānta-rāśiḥ śarīrī citraṁ candrāvalim api sa māṁ pātum icchann arautsīt ||9||

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In a dream: Friend, in a dream I saw a river-lake with dark water and, upon its bank, a mādhavī bower hall humming with bees. Within it stood my beloved, a mass of darkness embodied, his hips clothed in tawny cloth. Astonishingly, as he desired to drink me, even Candrāvalī restrained him.

15.10

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अथ श्रवणम्- वन्दि-दूती-सखी-वक्त्राद् गीतादेश् च श्रुतिर् भवेत् ॥१०॥

atha śravaṇam- vandi-dūtī-sakhī-vaktrād gītādeś ca śrutir bhavet ||10||

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Now hearing: Hearing may come from the mouth of a bard, messenger, or friend, or from song and similar sources.

15.11

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ततो वन्दि-वक्त्रात्, यथा- पठति मगध-राज-निर्जयार्थाꣳ सखि विरुदावलिम् अत्र वन्दिवर्ये । वद कथम् इव लक्ष्मणे तनुते पुलक-कुलेन विलक्षणा किलासीत् ॥११॥

tato vandi-vaktrāt, yathā- paṭhati magadha-rāja-nirjayārthāṁ sakhi virudāvalim atra vandivarye | vada katham iva lakṣmaṇe tanute pulaka-kulena vilakṣaṇā kilāsīt ||11||

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From a bard's mouth: Friend, when the foremost bard recites here a succession of praises concerning the defeat of the king of Magadha, explain how Lakṣmaṇā suddenly becomes extraordinary through a multitude of horripilation.

15.12

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दूती-वक्त्रात्, यथा- आविष्कृते तव मुकुन्द मया प्रसङ्गे तारावली पुलकिताङ्ग-लता नताक्षी । शुश्रूषुर् अप्य् अलघु-गद्गद-रुद्ध-कण्ठी प्रष्टुꣳ तवाक्षमत सा न कथा-विशेषम् ॥१२॥

dūtī-vaktrāt, yathā- āviṣkṛte tava mukunda mayā prasaṅge tārāvalī pulakitāṅga-latā natākṣī | śuśrūṣur apy alaghu-gadgada-ruddha-kaṇṭhī praṣṭuṁ tavākṣamata sā na kathā-viśeṣam ||12||

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From a messenger's mouth: Mukunda, when I introduced the subject of you, Tārāvalī lowered her eyes and the vine of her body erupted in horripilation. Though eager to hear, her throat was obstructed by powerful broken speech, and she could not ask any particular question about you.

15.13

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सखी-वक्त्रात्, यथा- यावद् उन्मद-चकोर-लोचना मन्-मुखात् तव कथाम् उपाशृणोत् । तावद् अञ्चति दिनꣳ दिनꣳ सखी कृष्ण शारद-नदीव तानवम् ॥१३॥

sakhī-vaktrāt, yathā- yāvad unmada-cakora-locanā man-mukhāt tava kathām upāśṛṇot | tāvad añcati dinaṁ dinaṁ sakhī kṛṣṇa śārada-nadīva tānavam ||13||

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From a friend's mouth: Kṛṣṇa, from the moment my friend, her cakora eyes maddened, heard the account of you from my mouth, she has grown thinner day by day like an autumn river.

15.14

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गीतात्, यथा- नयने प्रणयन्न् उदश्रुणी मम सद्यः सदसि क्षितीशितुः । उपवीणयति प्रवीण-धीः कम् उदश्रुः सखि वैणिको मुनिः ॥१४॥

gītāt, yathā- nayane praṇayann udaśruṇī mama sadyaḥ sadasi kṣitīśituḥ | upavīṇayati pravīṇa-dhīḥ kam udaśruḥ sakhi vaiṇiko muniḥ ||14||

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From song: Friend, what person does this wise sage and expert vīṇā player praise with tears as he plays in the king's assembly, making my own eyes immediately fill with tears?

15.15

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पुरोक्ता ये’भियोगाद्या हेतवो रति-जन्मनि । अत्र ते पूर्व-रागे’पि ज्ञेया धीरैर् यथोचितम् ॥१५॥

puroktā ye’bhiyogādyā hetavo rati-janmani | atra te pūrva-rāge’pi jñeyā dhīrair yathocitam ||15||

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The causes of attraction beginning with personal appeal that were described earlier should also be understood by the wise, as appropriate, within preliminary love.

15.16

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अपि माधव-रागस्य प्राथम्ये सम्भवत्य् अपि । आदौ रागे मृगाक्षीणाꣳ प्रोक्ते स्याच् चारुताधिका ॥१६॥

api mādhava-rāgasya prāthamye sambhavaty api | ādau rāge mṛgākṣīṇāṁ prokte syāc cārutādhikā ||16||

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Although Mādhava's attraction may arise first, there is greater elegance in initially describing the attraction of the doe-eyed women.

15.17

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अत्र सञ्चारिणो व्याधिः शङ्कासूया श्रमः क्लमः । निर्वेदौत्सुक्य-दैन्यानि चिन्ता-निद्रा-प्रबोधनम् ॥१७॥

atra sañcāriṇo vyādhiḥ śaṅkāsūyā śramaḥ klamaḥ | nirvedautsukya-dainyāni cintā-nidrā-prabodhanam ||17||

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Its transitory states include illness, apprehension, envy, fatigue, weakness, self-disgust, eagerness, humility, anxiety, sleep, and awakening;

15.18

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विषादो जडतोन्मदो मोह-मृत्य्-आदयः स्मृताः । प्रौढः समञ्जसः साधारणश् चेति स तु त्रिधा ॥१८॥

viṣādo jaḍatonmado moha-mṛty-ādayaḥ smṛtāḥ | prauḍhaḥ samañjasaḥ sādhāraṇaś ceti sa tu tridhā ||18||

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sorrow, inertia, madness, bewilderment, death, and others. Preliminary love itself is threefold: mature, congruous, and common.

15.19

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तत्र प्रौढः- समर्थ-रति-रूपस् तु प्रौढ इत्य् अभिधीयते । लालसादिर् इह प्रौढे मरणान्ता दशा भवेत् । तत्-तत्-सञ्चारि-भावानाम् उत्कटत्वाद् अनेकधा ॥१९॥

tatra prauḍhaḥ- samartha-rati-rūpas tu prauḍha ity abhidhīyate | lālasādir iha prauḍhe maraṇāntā daśā bhavet | tat-tat-sañcāri-bhāvānām utkaṭatvād anekadhā ||19||

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Mature preliminary love: The form based upon fully capable attraction is called mature. In it, the conditions beginning with longing and ending with death may appear in many ways because the corresponding transitory emotions are intense.

15.20

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तथापि प्राक्तनैर् अस्य दशावस्था समासतः । प्रोक्तास् तद्-अनुरोधेन तासाꣳ लक्षणम् उच्यते ॥२०॥

tathāpi prāktanair asya daśāvasthā samāsataḥ | proktās tad-anurodhena tāsāṁ lakṣaṇam ucyate ||20||

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Even so, earlier authorities summarized it in ten conditions. Following them, the characteristics of those ten are now explained.

15.21

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लालसोद्वेग-जागर्यास् तानवꣳ जडिमात्र तु । वैयग्र्यꣳ व्याधिर् उन्मादो मोहो मृत्युर् दशा दश ॥२१॥

lālasodvega-jāgaryās tānavaṁ jaḍimātra tu | vaiyagryaṁ vyādhir unmādo moho mṛtyur daśā daśa ||21||

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The ten conditions are longing, agitation, sleeplessness, emaciation, inertia, distraction, illness, madness, bewilderment, and death.

15.22

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प्रौढत्वात् पूर्व-रागस्य प्रौढाः सर्वा दशा अपि ॥२२॥

prauḍhatvāt pūrva-rāgasya prauḍhāḥ sarvā daśā api ||22||

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Because this preliminary love is mature, all ten of its conditions are themselves mature.

15.23

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तत्र लालसः- अभीष्ट-लिप्सया गाढ-गृध्नुता लालसो मतः । अत्रौत्सुक्यꣳ चपलता घूर्णाश्वासादयस् तथा ॥२३॥

tatra lālasaḥ- abhīṣṭa-lipsayā gāḍha-gṛdhnutā lālaso mataḥ | atrautsukyaṁ capalatā ghūrṇāśvāsādayas tathā ||23||

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Longing: Intense greed produced by the desire to obtain the beloved is considered longing. It includes eagerness, fickleness, reeling, sighing, and similar symptoms.

15.24

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यथा- त्वम् उदवसितान् निष्क्रामन्ती पुनः प्रविशन्त्य् असौ झटिति घटिका-मध्ये वाराञ् छतꣳ व्रज-सीमनि । अगणित-गुरु-त्रासा श्वासान् विमुच्य विमुच्य किꣳ क्षिपसि बहुशो नीपारण्ये किशोरि दृशोर् द्वयम् ॥२४॥

yathā- tvam udavasitān niṣkrāmantī punaḥ praviśanty asau jhaṭiti ghaṭikā-madhye vārāñ chataṁ vraja-sīmani | agaṇita-guru-trāsā śvāsān vimucya vimucya kiṁ kṣipasi bahuśo nīpāraṇye kiśori dṛśor dvayam ||24||

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For example: Within the space of a single watch, you come out of the house and enter it again a hundred times at the edge of Vraja. Young girl, disregarding fear of your elders, why do you release sigh after sigh and repeatedly cast your pair of eyes toward the kadamba forest?

15.25

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यथा वा विदग्ध-माधवे (३.२४)- दूराद् अप्य् अनुषङ्गतः श्रुतिम् इते त्वन्-नाम-धेयाक्षरे सोन्मादꣳ मदिरेक्षणा विरुवती धत्ते मुहुर् वेपथुम् । आः किꣳ वा कथनीयम् अन्यद्-असिते दैवाद् वराम्भोधरे दृष्टे तꣳ परिरब्धुम् उत्सुक-मतिः पक्ष-द्वयीम् इच्छति ॥२५॥

yathā vā vidagdha-mādhave (3.24)- dūrād apy anuṣaṅgataḥ śrutim ite tvan-nāma-dheyākṣare sonmādaṁ madirekṣaṇā viruvatī dhatte muhur vepathum | āḥ kiṁ vā kathanīyam anyad-asite daivād varāmbhodhare dṛṣṭe taṁ parirabdhum utsuka-matiḥ pakṣa-dvayīm icchati ||25||

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Or, as in Vidagdha-mādhava 3.24: Even when the syllables of your name reach her ear from afar and only incidentally, the intoxicated-eyed girl cries out in madness and repeatedly trembles. Ah, what more can be said? When by fate she sees an excellent dark rain cloud, she longs for a pair of wings so that she may embrace it.

15.26

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अथ उद्वेगः- उद्वेगो मनसः कम्पस् तत्र निःश्वास-चापले । स्तम्भश् चिन्ताश्रु-वैवर्ण्य-स्वेदादय उदीरिताः ॥२६॥

atha udvegaḥ- udvego manasaḥ kampas tatra niḥśvāsa-cāpale | stambhaś cintāśru-vaivarṇya-svedādaya udīritāḥ ||26||

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Now agitation: Agitation is trembling of the mind. Its expressions include sighing, fickleness, rigidity, anxiety, tears, change of color, perspiration, and others.

15.27

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यथा विदग्ध-माधवे (२.२)- चिन्ता-सन्ततिर् अद्य कृन्तति सखि स्वान्तस्य किꣳ ते धृतिꣳ किꣳवा सिञ्चति ताम्रम् अम्बरम् अतिस्वेदाम्भसाꣳ डम्बरः । कम्पश् चम्पक-गौरि लुम्पति वपुः-स्थैर्यꣳ कथꣳ वा बलात् तथ्यꣳ ब्रूहि न मङ्गला परिजने सङ्गोपनाङ्गीकृतिः ॥२७॥

yathā vidagdha-mādhave (2.2)- cintā-santatir adya kṛntati sakhi svāntasya kiṁ te dhṛtiṁ kiṁvā siñcati tāmram ambaram atisvedāmbhasāṁ ḍambaraḥ | kampaś campaka-gauri lumpati vapuḥ-sthairyaṁ kathaṁ vā balāt tathyaṁ brūhi na maṅgalā parijane saṅgopanāṅgīkṛtiḥ ||27||

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As in Vidagdha-mādhava 2.2: Friend, why does an unbroken succession of anxious thoughts cut away your heart's composure today? Why does a display of perspiration-water drench your copper-colored garment? Campaka-fair girl, how does trembling forcibly steal the steadiness of your body? Tell the truth. It is not auspicious to conceal things from your attendants.

15.28

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अथ जागर्या- निद्राक्षयस् तु जागर्या स्तम्भ-शोष-गदादिकृत् ॥२८॥

atha jāgaryā- nidrākṣayas tu jāgaryā stambha-śoṣa-gadādikṛt ||28||

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Now sleeplessness: The destruction of sleep is sleeplessness, which produces rigidity, emaciation, illness, and similar states.

15.29

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यथा- श्यामꣳ कञ्चन काञ्चनोज्ज्वल-पटꣳ सन्दर्श्य निद्रा क्षणꣳ माम् आजन्म सखी विमुच्य चलिता रुष्टेव नावर्तते । चिन्ताꣳ प्रोह्य सखि प्रपञ्चय मतिꣳ तस्यास् त्वम् आवर्तने नान्यः स्वाप्निक-तस्करोपहरणे शक्तो जनस् ताꣳ विना ॥२९॥

yathā- śyāmaṁ kañcana kāñcanojjvala-paṭaṁ sandarśya nidrā kṣaṇaṁ mām ājanma sakhī vimucya calitā ruṣṭeva nāvartate | cintāṁ prohya sakhi prapañcaya matiṁ tasyās tvam āvartane nānyaḥ svāpnika-taskaropaharaṇe śakto janas tāṁ vinā ||29||

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For example: After showing me for a moment some dark person in radiant golden cloth, Sleep, my lifelong companion, abandoned me and departed as if angry, never to return. Friend, set aside anxiety and apply your intelligence to bringing her back. No one but Sleep can recover what a thief in a dream has stolen.

15.30

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अथ तानवम्- तानवꣳ कृशता गात्रे दौर्बल्य-भ्रमणादि-कृत् ॥३०॥

atha tānavam- tānavaṁ kṛśatā gātre daurbalya-bhramaṇādi-kṛt ||30||

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Now emaciation: Emaciation is thinness of the body and produces weakness, reeling, and similar effects.

15.31

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यथा- च्युते वलय-सञ्चये प्रबल-रिक्तता-दूषण- व्ययाय निहितोर्मिकावलिर् अपि स्खलत्य् अञ्जसा । निशम्य मुरली-कलꣳ सखि सकृद् विशाखे तनुस् तवासित-चतुर्दशी-शशिकला कृशत्वꣳ ययौ ॥३१॥

yathā- cyute valaya-sañcaye prabala-riktatā-dūṣaṇa- vyayāya nihitormikāvalir api skhalaty añjasā | niśamya muralī-kalaṁ sakhi sakṛd viśākhe tanus tavāsita-caturdaśī-śaśikalā kṛśatvaṁ yayau ||31||

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For example: When your collection of bracelets falls, rows of rings placed upon your arms to remedy the powerful fault of emptiness also slip off at once. Viśākhā, after hearing the delicate flute just once, your body has become thin as the moon's digit on the dark fourteenth night.

15.32

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कैश्चित् तु तानव-स्थाने विलापः परिपठ्यते ॥३२॥

kaiścit tu tānava-sthāne vilāpaḥ paripaṭhyate ||32||

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Some authorities list lamentation in place of emaciation.

15.33

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यथा- अत्रासीन् नवनीप-भूरुह-तटे कुर्वन् विहारꣳ हरिश् चक्रे ताण्डवम् अत्र मित्र-सहितश् चण्डाꣳशुजा-रोधसि । पश्यन्ती लतिकान्तरे क्षणम् अहꣳ व्यग्रा निलीय स्थितꣳ सख्यः किꣳ कथयामि दग्ध-विधिना क्षिप्तास्मि दावोपरि ॥३३॥

yathā- atrāsīn navanīpa-bhūruha-taṭe kurvan vihāraṁ hariś cakre tāṇḍavam atra mitra-sahitaś caṇḍāṁśujā-rodhasi | paśyantī latikāntare kṣaṇam ahaṁ vyagrā nilīya sthitaṁ sakhyaḥ kiṁ kathayāmi dagdha-vidhinā kṣiptāsmi dāvopari ||33||

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For example: Here beside this young kadamba tree Hari enjoyed his pastimes; here upon Yamunā's bank he danced with his friends; and there, hidden restlessly among the vines, I watched him for a moment. Friends, what can I say? Accursed fate has cast me upon a forest fire.

15.34

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अथ जडिमा- इष्टानिष्टा-परिज्ञानꣳ यत्र प्रश्नेष्व् अनुत्तरम् । दर्शन-श्रवणाभावो जडिमा सो’भिधीयते । अत्राकाण्डे’पि हुङ्कार-स्तम्भ-श्वास-भ्रमादयः ॥३४॥

atha jaḍimā- iṣṭāniṣṭā-parijñānaṁ yatra praśneṣv anuttaram | darśana-śravaṇābhāvo jaḍimā so’bhidhīyate | atrākāṇḍe’pi huṅkāra-stambha-śvāsa-bhramādayaḥ ||34||

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Now inertia: The condition in which one cannot distinguish the desired from the undesired, gives no answer to questions, and neither sees nor hears is called inertia. Its expressions include untimely grunting, rigidity, breathing, reeling, and others.

15.35

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यथा- अकाण्डे हुङ्कारꣳ रचयसि शृणोषि प्रिय-सखी- कुलानाꣳ नालापꣳ दृतिर् इव मुहुर् निःश्वसिषि च । ततः शङ्के पङ्केरुह-मुखि ययौ वैणव-कला- मधूली ते पालि श्रुति-चषकयोः प्राघूणिकताम् ॥३५॥

yathā- akāṇḍe huṅkāraṁ racayasi śṛṇoṣi priya-sakhī- kulānāṁ nālāpaṁ dṛtir iva muhur niḥśvasiṣi ca | tataḥ śaṅke paṅkeruha-mukhi yayau vaiṇava-kalā- madhūlī te pāli śruti-caṣakayoḥ prāghūṇikatām ||35||

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For example: You grunt without cause, do not hear the conversation of your dear companions, and repeatedly sigh like a leather bellows. Lotus-faced Pālī, I therefore suspect that the honey from the flute's melody has become a guest within the cups of your ears.

15.36

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अथ वैयाग्र्यम्- वैयाग्र्यꣳ भाव-गाम्भीर्य-विक्षोभासहतोच्यते । तत्राविवेक-निर्वेद-खेदासूयादयो मताः ॥३६॥

atha vaiyāgryam- vaiyāgryaṁ bhāva-gāmbhīrya-vikṣobhāsahatocyate | tatrāviveka-nirveda-khedāsūyādayo matāḥ ||36||

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Now distraction: Distraction is the inability to tolerate the agitation of a profound emotion. It includes loss of discrimination, self-disgust, distress, envy, and similar states.

15.37

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यथा विदग्ध-माधवे (२.१७)- प्रत्याहृत्य मुनिः क्षणꣳ विषयतो यस्मिन् मनो धित्सते बालासौ विषयेषु धित्सति ततः प्रत्याहरन्ती मनः । यस्य स्फूर्ति-लवाय हन्त हृदये योगी सुमुत्कण्ठते मुग्धेयꣳ किल तस्य पश्य हृदयान् निष्क्रान्तिम् आकाङ्क्षति ॥३७॥

yathā vidagdha-mādhave (2.17)- pratyāhṛtya muniḥ kṣaṇaṁ viṣayato yasmin mano dhitsate bālāsau viṣayeṣu dhitsati tataḥ pratyāharantī manaḥ | yasya sphūrti-lavāya hanta hṛdaye yogī sumutkaṇṭhate mugdheyaṁ kila tasya paśya hṛdayān niṣkrāntim ākāṅkṣati ||37||

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As in Vidagdha-mādhava 2.17: A sage withdraws the mind from sense objects for a moment so that he may fix it upon that person. This young girl, however, tries to withdraw her mind from that person and fix it upon sense objects. A yogin intensely longs for even a trace of his manifestation within the heart, yet see how this innocent girl longs to drive him from her heart.

15.38

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अथ व्याधिः- अभीष्टालाभतो व्याधिः पाण्डिमोत्ताप-लक्षणः । अत्र शीत-स्पृहा-मोह-निःश्वास-पतनादयः ॥३८॥

atha vyādhiḥ- abhīṣṭālābhato vyādhiḥ pāṇḍimottāpa-lakṣaṇaḥ | atra śīta-spṛhā-moha-niḥśvāsa-patanādayaḥ ||38||

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Now illness: Illness arising from failure to attain the desired beloved is marked by pallor and fever. It produces longing for coolness, bewilderment, sighing, collapse, and other symptoms.

15.39

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यथा- दव-दमनतया निशम्य भद्रा मदन-दव-ज्वलिता दधे हृदि त्वाम् । द्विगुणित-दवथु-व्यथा-विदग्धा मुरहर भस्ममयीव पाण्डुरासीत् ॥३९॥

yathā- dava-damanatayā niśamya bhadrā madana-dava-jvalitā dadhe hṛdi tvām | dviguṇita-davathu-vyathā-vidagdhā murahara bhasmamayīva pāṇḍurāsīt ||39||

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For example: Hearing that you extinguish forest fires, Bhadrā, blazing in the forest fire of Love, placed you within her heart. Destroyer of Mura, burned by the pain of fever that thereby doubled, she became pale as though made of ashes.

15.40

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अथ उन्मादः- सर्वावस्थासु सर्वत्र तन्-मनस्कतया सदा । अतस्मिꣳस् तु तद् इति भ्रान्तिर् उन्माद इति कीर्त्यते । अत्रेष्ट-द्वेष-निःश्वास-निमेष-विरहादयः ॥४०॥

atha unmādaḥ- sarvāvasthāsu sarvatra tan-manaskatayā sadā | atasmiṁs tu tad iti bhrāntir unmāda iti kīrtyate | atreṣṭa-dveṣa-niḥśvāsa-nimeṣa-virahādayaḥ ||40||

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Now madness: Because the mind remains continually absorbed in him everywhere and in every condition, one mistakes what is not him for him. This is called madness. It includes love for one thing, hostility toward another, sighing, freedom from blinking, and other symptoms.

15.41

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यथा विदग्ध-माधवे (२.३)- वितन्वानस् तन्वा मरकत-रुचीनाꣳ रुचिवताꣳ पटान् निष्क्रान्तो’भूद् धृत-शिखण्डो नव-युवा । भ्रुवꣳ तेन क्षिप्त्वा किम् अपि हसतोन्मादित-मतेः शशी वृत्तो वह्निः परम् अहह वह्निर् मम शशी ॥४१॥

yathā vidagdha-mādhave (2.3)- vitanvānas tanvā marakata-rucīnāṁ rucivatāṁ paṭān niṣkrānto’bhūd dhṛta-śikhaṇḍo nava-yuvā | bhruvaṁ tena kṣiptvā kim api hasatonmādita-mateḥ śaśī vṛtto vahniḥ param ahaha vahnir mama śaśī ||41||

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As in Vidagdha-mādhava 2.3: A fresh young man emerged from behind a curtain radiant with emerald hues, wearing a peacock feather. Casting his eyebrow and smiling somehow, he maddened my mind. The moon has become fire, alas, and fire has become my moon.

15.42

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अथ मोहः- मोहो विचित्तता प्रोक्तो नैश्चल्य-पतनादि-कृत् ॥४२॥

atha mohaḥ- moho vicittatā prokto naiścalya-patanādi-kṛt ||42||

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Now bewilderment: Bewilderment is loss of consciousness and produces immobility, collapse, and similar effects.

15.43

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यथा- नासा-श्वास-पराङ्-मुखी विघटिते दृष्टिः स्नुषायाः कथꣳ हा धिक् कृष्ण-तिलान् ममार्पय करे कुर्याम् अपामार्जनम् । इत्य् आरोहति कर्णयोः परिसरꣳ कृष्णेति वर्ण-द्वये कम्पेनाच्युत तत्र सूत्रितवती त्वाम् एव हेतुꣳ सखी ॥४३॥

yathā- nāsā-śvāsa-parāṅ-mukhī vighaṭite dṛṣṭiḥ snuṣāyāḥ kathaṁ hā dhik kṛṣṇa-tilān mamārpaya kare kuryām apāmārjanam | ity ārohati karṇayoḥ parisaraṁ kṛṣṇeti varṇa-dvaye kampenācyuta tatra sūtritavatī tvām eva hetuṁ sakhī ||43||

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For example: 'How has my daughter-in-law's sight failed and the breath turned away from her nostrils? Alas! Place black sesame in my hand so I may perform the final rites.' Acyuta, when the two syllables 'Kṛṣ-ṇa' entered the region of her ears, my friend's trembling revealed that you alone were the cause.

15.44

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अथ मृत्युः- तैस् तैः कृतैः प्रतीकारैर् यदि न स्यात् समागमः । कन्दर्प-बाण-कदनात् तत्र स्यान् मरणोद्यमः ॥४४॥

atha mṛtyuḥ- tais taiḥ kṛtaiḥ pratīkārair yadi na syāt samāgamaḥ | kandarpa-bāṇa-kadanāt tatra syān maraṇodyamaḥ ||44||

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Now death: If reunion does not occur despite every attempted remedy, torment from Love's arrows produces a resolve to die.

15.45

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तत्र स्वप्रिय-वस्तूनाꣳ वयस्यासु समर्पणम् । भृङ्ग-मन्दानिल-ज्योत्स्ना-कदम्बानुभवादयः ॥४५॥

tatra svapriya-vastūnāṁ vayasyāsu samarpaṇam | bhṛṅga-mandānila-jyotsnā-kadambānubhavādayaḥ ||45||

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Its expressions include entrusting one's cherished possessions to friends and experiencing bees, gentle wind, moonlight, kadamba trees, and similar reminders.

15.46

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यथा- राधा रोधसि रोपिताꣳ मुकुलिनीम् आलिङ्ग्य मल्-लीलताꣳ हारꣳ हीरमयꣳ समर्प्य ललिता-हस्ते प्रशस्त-श्रियम् । मूर्च्छाम् आप्नुवती प्रविश्य मधुपैर् गीताꣳ कदम्बाटवीꣳ नाम व्याहरता हरेः प्रिय-सखी-वृन्देन सन्धुक्षिता ॥४६॥

yathā- rādhā rodhasi ropitāṁ mukulinīm āliṅgya mal-līlatāṁ hāraṁ hīramayaṁ samarpya lalitā-haste praśasta-śriyam | mūrcchām āpnuvatī praviśya madhupair gītāṁ kadambāṭavīṁ nāma vyāharatā hareḥ priya-sakhī-vṛndena sandhukṣitā ||46||

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For example: Rādhā embraced the budding jasmine vine she had planted upon the riverbank and gave her splendid diamond necklace into Lalitā's hand. Entering the kadamba grove humming with bees, she began to faint, but her circle of dear friends revived her by speaking Hari's name.

15.47

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यथा वा विदग्ध-माधवे (२.४७)- अकारुण्यः कृष्णो यदि मयि तवागः कथम् इदꣳ मुधा मा रोदीर् मे कुरु परम् इमाम् उत्तर-कृतिम् । तमालस्य स्कन्धे विनिहित-भुज-वल्लरिर् इयꣳ यथा वृन्दारण्ये चिरम् अविचला तिष्ठति तनुः ॥४७॥

yathā vā vidagdha-mādhave (2.47)- akāruṇyaḥ kṛṣṇo yadi mayi tavāgaḥ katham idaṁ mudhā mā rodīr me kuru param imām uttara-kṛtim | tamālasya skandhe vinihita-bhuja-vallarir iyaṁ yathā vṛndāraṇye ciram avicalā tiṣṭhati tanuḥ ||47||

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Or, as in Vidagdha-mādhava 2.47: If Kṛṣṇa is merciless toward me, how is that your fault? Do not weep uselessly. Perform only this final rite for me: place the vines of my arms upon the trunk of a tamāla tree so that this body may remain forever motionless in Vṛndāvana.

15.48

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अथ समञ्जसः- भवेत् समञ्जस-रति-स्वरूपो’यꣳ समञ्जसः ॥४८॥

atha samañjasaḥ- bhavet samañjasa-rati-svarūpo’yaṁ samañjasaḥ ||48||

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Now congruous preliminary love: This consists of the essential nature of congruous attraction.

15.49

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अत्राभिलाष-चिन्ता-स्मृति-गुण-सङ्कीर्तनोद्वेगाः । सविलापा उन्माद-व्याधि-जडता मृतिश् च ताः क्रमशः ॥४९॥

atrābhilāṣa-cintā-smṛti-guṇa-saṅkīrtanodvegāḥ | savilāpā unmāda-vyādhi-jaḍatā mṛtiś ca tāḥ kramaśaḥ ||49||

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Its conditions are successively desire, anxiety, remembrance, praise of qualities, agitation, lamentation, madness, illness, inertia, and death.

15.50

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तत्र अभिलाषः- व्यवसायो’भिलाषः स्यात् प्रिय-सङ्गम-लिप्सया । स्व-मण्डनान्तिक-प्राप्ति-राग-प्रकटनादि-कृत् ॥५०॥

tatra abhilāṣaḥ- vyavasāyo’bhilāṣaḥ syāt priya-saṅgama-lipsayā | sva-maṇḍanāntika-prāpti-rāga-prakaṭanādi-kṛt ||50||

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Desire: Resolute longing to meet the beloved is desire. It produces self-adornment, approaching the beloved, revealing one's attraction, and similar acts.

15.51

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यथा- यद् इह सखि सुभद्रा-सख्यम् आख्याय धूर्ते व्रजसि पितुर् अगाराद् देवेकी-मन्दिराय । रचयसि बत सत्ये मण्डने च प्रयत्नꣳ स्फुटम् अजनि तद् अन्तर् वस्तु गूढꣳ तवाद्य ॥५१॥

yathā- yad iha sakhi subhadrā-sakhyam ākhyāya dhūrte vrajasi pitur agārād devekī-mandirāya | racayasi bata satye maṇḍane ca prayatnaṁ sphuṭam ajani tad antar vastu gūḍhaṁ tavādya ||51||

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For example: Satyā, you leave your father's house for Devakī's residence on the pretext of friendship with Subhadrā, that rogue's sister, and now take such pains with your adornment. The object hidden within your heart has clearly become manifest today.

15.52

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अथ चिन्ता- अभीष्टावाप्त्य्-उपायानाꣳ ध्यानꣳ चिन्ता प्रकीर्तिता । शय्या-विवृत्ति-निःश्वास-निर्लक्ष-प्रेक्षणादि-कृत् ॥५२॥

atha cintā- abhīṣṭāvāpty-upāyānāṁ dhyānaṁ cintā prakīrtitā | śayyā-vivṛtti-niḥśvāsa-nirlakṣa-prekṣaṇādi-kṛt ||52||

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Now anxiety: Meditation upon the means of attaining the desired beloved is celebrated as anxiety. It produces turning upon the bed, sighing, staring without aim, and similar effects.

15.53

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यथा- निःश्वासस् ते कमल-वदने म्लापयत्य् ओष्ठ-बिम्बꣳ शय्यायाꣳ च क्रशिम-कलिता चेष्टते देह-यष्टिः । द्वन्द्वꣳ चाक्ष्णोर् विकिरति चिरꣳ रुक्मिणि श्याम अम्भो न श्वो-भाविन्य् उपयम-विधौ शोभते विक्रियेयम् ॥५३॥

yathā- niḥśvāsas te kamala-vadane mlāpayaty oṣṭha-bimbaṁ śayyāyāṁ ca kraśima-kalitā ceṣṭate deha-yaṣṭiḥ | dvandvaṁ cākṣṇor vikirati ciraṁ rukmiṇi śyāma ambho na śvo-bhāviny upayama-vidhau śobhate vikriyeyam ||53||

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For example: Lotus-faced Rukmiṇī, your sighs wither your bimba lips; your emaciated body moves upon the bed; and your two eyes release dark water for a long time. Such transformation is not becoming on the day before your wedding ceremony.

15.54

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अथ स्मृतिः- अनुभूत-प्रियादीनाम् अर्थानाꣳ चिन्तनꣳ स्मृतिः । अत्र कम्पाङ्ग-वैवश्य-बाष्प-निःश्वसितादयः ॥५४॥

atha smṛtiḥ- anubhūta-priyādīnām arthānāṁ cintanaṁ smṛtiḥ | atra kampāṅga-vaivaśya-bāṣpa-niḥśvasitādayaḥ ||54||

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Now remembrance: Thinking about the beloved and other objects previously experienced is remembrance. Its effects include trembling, bodily helplessness, tears, sighing, and others.

15.55

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यथा- प्लुतꣳ पुरेणापाꣳ नयन-कमल-द्वन्द्वम् अभितो धृतोत्कम्पꣳ सात्राजिति कुच-रथाङ्ग-द्वयम् अपि । श्लथारम्भꣳ चैतद् भुज-विसल-युगꣳ तत् तव मनस् तडागे’स्मिन् कृष्ण-द्विरद-पतिर् अन्तर् विहरति ॥५५॥

yathā- plutaṁ pureṇāpāṁ nayana-kamala-dvandvam abhito dhṛtotkampaṁ sātrājiti kuca-rathāṅga-dvayam api | ślathārambhaṁ caitad bhuja-visala-yugaṁ tat tava manas taḍāge’smin kṛṣṇa-dvirada-patir antar viharati ||55||

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For example: Daughter of Satrājit, your two lotus eyes are flooded on every side by a city of water, your two chariot-wheel breasts tremble, and your broad pair of arms has grown slack. The lordly elephant Kṛṣṇa is sporting within the lake of your mind.

15.56

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अथ गुण-कीर्तनम्- सौन्दर्यादि-गुण-श्लाघा गुण-कीर्तनम् उच्यते । अत्र वेपथु-रोमाञ्च-कण्ठ-गद्गदिकादयः ॥५६॥

atha guṇa-kīrtanam- saundaryādi-guṇa-ślāghā guṇa-kīrtanam ucyate | atra vepathu-romāñca-kaṇṭha-gadgadikādayaḥ ||56||

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Now praise of qualities: Celebrating the beloved's beauty and other virtues is praise of qualities. Its effects include trembling, horripilation, a broken voice, and others.

15.57

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यथा- यान्त्यस् तृष्णापि युवतयो येषु घूर्णाꣳ भजन्ते यान्य् आचम्य स्वयम् अपि भवान् रोमहर्षꣳ प्रयाति । गन्धꣳ तेषाꣳ तव मधुपते रूप-सम्पन्-मधूनाꣳ दूरे विन्दन् मम न हि धृतिः चित्त-भृङ्गस् तनोति ॥५७॥

yathā- yāntyas tṛṣṇāpi yuvatayo yeṣu ghūrṇāṁ bhajante yāny ācamya svayam api bhavān romaharṣaṁ prayāti | gandhaṁ teṣāṁ tava madhupate rūpa-sampan-madhūnāṁ dūre vindan mama na hi dhṛtiḥ citta-bhṛṅgas tanoti ||57||

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For example: Lord of Madhu, young women grow thirsty for the honey of your beautiful form and reel in it; even you, after tasting it, develop horripilation. Merely catching its fragrance from afar, the bee of my heart can no longer maintain composure.

15.58

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षड्-उद्वेगादयः पूर्वꣳ प्रौढे तस्मिन्न् उदाहृताः । सामञ्जस्याद् रतेर् अत्र किन्तु ताः स्युर् यथोचितम् ॥५८॥

ṣaḍ-udvegādayaḥ pūrvaṁ prauḍhe tasminn udāhṛtāḥ | sāmañjasyād rater atra kintu tāḥ syur yathocitam ||58||

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The six conditions beginning with agitation were illustrated earlier under mature preliminary love. Because the attraction here is congruous, they should be applied in the suitable degree.

15.59

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अथ साधारणः- साधारण-रति-प्रायः साधारण इतीरितः । अत्र प्रोक्ता विलापान्ताः षड्-दशान्ताश् च कोमलाः ॥५९॥

atha sādhāraṇaḥ- sādhāraṇa-rati-prāyaḥ sādhāraṇa itīritaḥ | atra proktā vilāpāntāḥ ṣaḍ-daśāntāś ca komalāḥ ||59||

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Now common preliminary love: Common preliminary love consists predominantly of common attraction. Six gentle conditions, ending with lamentation, are described in it.

15.60

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अथ अभिलाषो, यथा प्रथम-स्कन्धे (१.१०.३०)- एताः परꣳ स्त्रीत्वम् अपास्त-पेशलꣳ निरस्त-शौचꣳ बत साधु कुर्वते । यासाꣳ गृहात् पुष्कर-लोचनः पतिर् न जात्व् अपैत्य् आहृतिभिर् हृदि स्पृशन् ॥६०॥

atha abhilāṣo, yathā prathama-skandhe (1.10.30)- etāḥ paraṁ strītvam apāsta-peśalaṁ nirasta-śaucaṁ bata sādhu kurvate | yāsāṁ gṛhāt puṣkara-locanaḥ patir na jātv apaity āhṛtibhir hṛdi spṛśan ||60||

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Desire, as in the First Canto 1.10.30: These women alone make womanhood successful, though it lacks refinement and has cast aside ritual purity, for their lotus-eyed husband never leaves their homes and continually touches their hearts with his gifts.

15.61

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चिन्तादीनाꣳ तथान्यासाम् ऊह्या धीरैर् उदाहृतिः ॥६१॥

cintādīnāṁ tathānyāsām ūhyā dhīrair udāhṛtiḥ ||61||

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The wise should infer examples of anxiety and the other conditions in the same way.

15.62

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पूर्व-रागे प्रहीयेत काम-लेख-स्रग्-आदिकम् । वयस्यादि-करेणात्र कृष्णेनास्य च कान्तया ॥६२॥

pūrva-rāge prahīyeta kāma-lekha-srag-ādikam | vayasyādi-kareṇātra kṛṣṇenāsya ca kāntayā ||62||

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During preliminary love, Kṛṣṇa may send a love letter, garland, or other object through the hand of a friend or similar intermediary, and his beloved may send the same to him.

15.63

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तत्र काम-लेखः- स लेखः काम-लेखः स्यात् यः स्व-प्रेम-प्रकाशकः । युवत्या यूनि यूना च युवत्याꣳ सꣳप्रहीयते ॥६३॥

tatra kāma-lekhaḥ- sa lekhaḥ kāma-lekhaḥ syāt yaḥ sva-prema-prakāśakaḥ | yuvatyā yūni yūnā ca yuvatyāṁ saṁprahīyate ||63||

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The love letter: A message that reveals one's love and is sent by a young woman to a young man or by a young man to a young woman is a love letter.

15.64

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निरक्षरः साक्षरश् च काम-लेखो द्विधा भवेत् ॥६४॥

nirakṣaraḥ sākṣaraś ca kāma-lekho dvidhā bhavet ||64||

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A love letter is of two kinds, without written characters and with written characters.

15.65

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तत्र निरक्षरः- सुरक्त-पल्लव-मयश् चन्द्रार्धादि-नखाङ्क-भाक् । वर्ण-विन्यास-रहितो भवेद् एष निरक्षरः ॥६५॥

tatra nirakṣaraḥ- surakta-pallava-mayaś candrārdhādi-nakhāṅka-bhāk | varṇa-vinyāsa-rahito bhaved eṣa nirakṣaraḥ ||65||

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Without written characters: A deeply red young leaf bearing crescent and other marks made by the nails, without any arrangement of letters, is a wordless love letter.

15.66

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यथा- किसलय-शिखरे विशाखिकाया नखर-शिखा-लिखितो’यम् अर्ध-चन्द्रः । दधद् इह मदनार्ध-चन्द्र-भावꣳ हृदि मम हन्त कथꣳ हठाद् विवेश ॥६६॥

yathā- kisalaya-śikhare viśākhikāyā nakhara-śikhā-likhito’yam ardha-candraḥ | dadhad iha madanārdha-candra-bhāvaṁ hṛdi mama hanta kathaṁ haṭhād viveśa ||66||

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For example: This crescent moon, drawn by the tip of Viśākhikā's nail upon the tip of a young leaf, has assumed the nature of Love's own half-moon arrow. Alas, how did it forcibly enter my heart?

15.67

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अथ साक्षरम्- गाथामयी लिपिर् यत्र स्वहस्ताङ्कैष साक्षरः ॥६७॥

atha sākṣaram- gāthāmayī lipir yatra svahastāṅkaiṣa sākṣaraḥ ||67||

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Now with written characters: A written message composed in verse and marked by one's own hand is a letter with characters.

15.68

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यथा जगन्नाथ-वल्लभे- सुइरꣳ विज्झसि हिअअꣳ लम्भ{इ} मअणो क्खु दुज्जसः बलिअꣳ । दीससि सअल-दिसासुꣳ दीस{इ} मअणो ण कुत्ताबि ॥६८॥

yathā jagannātha-vallabhe- suiraṁ vijjhasi hiaaṁ lambha{i} maaṇo kkhu dujjasaḥ baliaṁ | dīsasi saala-disāsuṁ dīsa{i} maaṇo ṇa kuttābi ||68||

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As in Jagannātha-vallabha: Remaining far away, you pierce my heart and grow stronger, mighty cruel one. You appear in every direction, though you are seen nowhere at all.

15.69

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बन्धो’ब्ज-तन्तुना रागः किꣳ वा कस्तूरिका-मसी । पृथु-पुष्प-दलꣳ पत्रः मुद्रा-कृत् कुङ्कुमैर् इह ॥६९॥

bandho’bja-tantunā rāgaḥ kiṁ vā kastūrikā-masī | pṛthu-puṣpa-dalaṁ patraḥ mudrā-kṛt kuṅkumair iha ||69||

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Its binding thread may be lotus fiber, its red pigment may itself be passion, or its ink may be musk; a broad flower petal serves as paper, and kuṅkuma makes the seal.

15.70

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अथ माल्यार्पणम्- सुश्लिष्टाꣳ निज-शिल्प-कौशल-भर-व्याहारिणीम् अद्भुताꣳ गोष्ठाधीश्वर-नन्दनꣳ स्रजम् इमाꣳ तुभ्यꣳ सखि प्राहिणोत् । इत्य् आकर्ण्य गिरꣳ सरोरुह-दृशः स्वेदोद-बिन्दूच्छलाद्- अङ्गेभ्यः कुल-धर्म-धैर्यम् अभितः शङ्के बहिर् निर्ययौ ॥७०॥

atha mālyārpaṇam- suśliṣṭāṁ nija-śilpa-kauśala-bhara-vyāhāriṇīm adbhutāṁ goṣṭhādhīśvara-nandanaṁ srajam imāṁ tubhyaṁ sakhi prāhiṇot | ity ākarṇya giraṁ saroruha-dṛśaḥ svedoda-bindūcchalād- aṅgebhyaḥ kula-dharma-dhairyam abhitaḥ śaṅke bahir niryayau ||70||

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Now offering a garland: 'Friend, the son of the cowherd lord has sent you this astonishing and tightly woven garland, which proclaims the abundance of his artistic skill.' Hearing these words, the lotus-eyed girl's perspiration rose in drops; I suspect the dharma and composure of her family then left her body from every side.

15.71

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केचित् तु- नयन-प्रीतिः प्रथमꣳ चिन्ता-सङ्गस् ततो’थ सङ्कल्पः । निद्रा-च्छेदस् तनुता विषय-निवृत्तिस् त्रपा-नाशः । उन्मादो मूर्च्छा मृतिर् इत्य् एताः स्मर-दशा दशैव स्युः ॥७१॥ इत्य् आचक्षते ।

kecit tu- nayana-prītiḥ prathamaṁ cintā-saṅgas tato’tha saṅkalpaḥ | nidrā-cchedas tanutā viṣaya-nivṛttis trapā-nāśaḥ | unmādo mūrcchā mṛtir ity etāḥ smara-daśā daśaiva syuḥ ||71|| ity ācakṣate |

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Some authorities say instead: The ten stages of Love are first delight of the eyes, then fixation in thought, resolve, loss of sleep, thinness, withdrawal from sense objects, loss of modesty, madness, fainting, and death.

15.72

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एवꣳ क्रमेण विज्ञेयः पूर्व-रागो हरेर् अपि । निदर्शनाय तत्रैकम् उदाहरणम् उच्यते ॥७२॥

evaṁ krameṇa vijñeyaḥ pūrva-rāgo harer api | nidarśanāya tatraikam udāharaṇam ucyate ||72||

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Hari's preliminary love should be understood in the same sequence. A single example is now given as an illustration.

15.73

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यथा- उपारꣳसीद् वꣳशी-कल-परिमलोल्लास-रभसाद् विसस्मार स्फाराꣳ विविध-कुसुमाकल्प-रचनाम् । जहौ कृष्णस् तृष्णाꣳ सहचर-चमू-चारु-चरिते सखि त्वद्-भ्रू-व्याली-चुलुकित-चलच्-चित्त-पवनः ॥७३॥

yathā- upāraṁsīd vaṁśī-kala-parimalollāsa-rabhasād visasmāra sphārāṁ vividha-kusumākalpa-racanām | jahau kṛṣṇas tṛṣṇāṁ sahacara-camū-cāru-carite sakhi tvad-bhrū-vyālī-culukita-calac-citta-pavanaḥ ||73||

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For example: Friend, the wind of Kṛṣṇa's restless heart, swallowed by the serpent of your eyebrow, stopped his flute through the impetuous joy of its delicate fragrance, made him forget the elaborate creation of ornaments from many flowers, and took away his desire for the charming activities of his army of companions.

15.74

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इति पूर्व-रागः । अथ मानः दम्पत्योर् भाव एकत्र सतोर् अप्य् अनुरक्तयोः । स्वाभीष्टाश्लेष-वीक्षादि-निरोधी मान उच्यते ॥७४॥

iti pūrva-rāgaḥ | atha mānaḥ dampatyor bhāva ekatra sator apy anuraktayoḥ | svābhīṣṭāśleṣa-vīkṣādi-nirodhī māna ucyate ||74||

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Thus ends preliminary love. Now loving resentment: The emotion between two lovers who are attached to one another and even remain together, but which obstructs their desired embraces, glances, and similar exchanges, is called loving resentment.

15.75

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सञ्चारिणो’त्र निर्वेद-शङ्कामर्षाः स-चापलाः । गर्वासूयावहित्थाश् च ग्लानिश् चिन्तादयो’प्य् अमी ॥७५॥

sañcāriṇo’tra nirveda-śaṅkāmarṣāḥ sa-cāpalāḥ | garvāsūyāvahitthāś ca glāniś cintādayo’py amī ||75||

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Its transitory states include self-disgust, apprehension, intolerance, fickleness, pride, envy, concealment, weakness, anxiety, and others.

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अहेतोर् नेति नेत्य् उकेर् हेतोर् यन् मान उच्यते । अस्य प्रणय एव स्यान् मानस्य पदम् उत्तमम् ॥७६॥

ahetor neti nety uker hetor yan māna ucyate | asya praṇaya eva syān mānasya padam uttamam ||76||

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Loving resentment is said to be either causeless or caused. Intimacy alone is the finest ground upon which loving resentment appears.

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तत्र स-हेतुः- हेतुर् ईर्ष्या-विपक्षादेर् वैशिष्ट्ये प्रेयसा कृते । भावः प्रणय-मुख्यो’यम् ईऋषा-मानत्वम् ऋच्छति ॥७७॥

tatra sa-hetuḥ- hetur īrṣyā-vipakṣāder vaiśiṣṭye preyasā kṛte | bhāvaḥ praṇaya-mukhyo’yam īṛṣā-mānatvam ṛcchati ||77||

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Resentment with a cause: Its cause is jealousy when the beloved gives special distinction to a rival or acts similarly. This emotion, whose principal basis is intimacy, thereby becomes jealous loving resentment.

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तथा चोक्तम् (शृङ्गार-तिलक २.५३)- स्नेहꣳ विना भयꣳ न स्यान् नेर्ष्या च प्रणयꣳ विना । तस्मान् मान-प्रकारो’यꣳ द्वयोः प्रेम-प्रकाशकः ॥७८॥

tathā coktam (śṛṅgāra-tilaka 2.53)- snehaṁ vinā bhayaṁ na syān nerṣyā ca praṇayaṁ vinā | tasmān māna-prakāro’yaṁ dvayoḥ prema-prakāśakaḥ ||78||

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Thus it is said in Śṛṅgāra-tilaka 2.53: Without affection there is no fear, and without intimacy there is no jealousy. Therefore this form of loving resentment reveals the love of both partners.

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अतएव हरिवꣳशे (२.६६.४, २.६५.५०)- रुषिताम् इव ताꣳ देवीꣳ स्नेहात् सङ्कल्पयन्न् इव । भीत-भीतो’तिशनकैर् विवेश यदु-नन्दनः ॥७९॥

ataeva harivaṁśe (2.66.4, 2.65.50)- ruṣitām iva tāṁ devīṁ snehāt saṅkalpayann iva | bhīta-bhīto’tiśanakair viveśa yadu-nandanaḥ ||79||

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For that very reason, as in Hari-vaṁśa 2.66.4 and 2.65.50: Imagining from affection that the goddess was angry, the son of Yadu entered very slowly, frightened and apprehensive.

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रूप-यौवन-सम्पन्ना स्व-सौभाग्येन गर्विता । अभिमानवती देवी श्रुत्वैवेर्ष्या-वशꣳ गता ॥८०॥ इति ।

rūpa-yauvana-sampannā sva-saubhāgyena garvitā | abhimānavatī devī śrutvaiverṣyā-vaśaṁ gatā ||80|| iti |

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Endowed with beauty and youth and proud of her own good fortune, the self-assured goddess became controlled by jealousy merely upon hearing the news.

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तत्रापि च सुसख्यादि हृदि यस्या विराजते । तस्या विपक्ष-वैशिष्ट्ये न स्याद् एव सहिष्णुता ॥८१॥

tatrāpi ca susakhyādi hṛdi yasyā virājate | tasyā vipakṣa-vaiśiṣṭye na syād eva sahiṣṇutā ||81||

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Moreover, a woman whose heart shines with excellent familiarity or a related intimacy cannot tolerate the bestowal of special distinction upon a rival.

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अतः सत्याꣳ विनान्यासाꣳ सुसख्यादेर् अभावतः । श्रुते’पि पारिजातस्य दाने मानो न चाभवत् ॥८२॥

ataḥ satyāṁ vinānyāsāṁ susakhyāder abhāvataḥ | śrute’pi pārijātasya dāne māno na cābhavat ||82||

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Therefore, because women other than Satyā lacked such excellent familiarity, they did not develop loving resentment even when they heard that the pārijāta tree had been given away.

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श्रुतꣳ चानुमितꣳ दृष्टꣳ तद्-वैशिष्ट्यꣳ त्रिधा मतम् ॥८३॥

śrutaṁ cānumitaṁ dṛṣṭaṁ tad-vaiśiṣṭyaṁ tridhā matam ||83||

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The rival's special distinction is considered threefold: heard, inferred, or directly seen.

15.84

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अथ श्रवणम्- श्रवणꣳ तु प्रिय-सखी-शुकादीनाꣳ मुखाद् भवेत् ॥८४॥

atha śravaṇam- śravaṇaṁ tu priya-sakhī-śukādīnāṁ mukhād bhavet ||84||

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Hearing: Hearing may occur from the mouth of a dear friend, a parrot, or another source.

15.85

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तत्र सखी-मुखात्, यथा- शशिमुखि मृषा जल्पꣳ श्रुत्वा कठोर-सखी-मुखात् प्रणयिनि हरौ मा विश्रम्भꣳ कृथाः शिथिलꣳ वृथा । परिहर मनः-क्लान्तिꣳ देवि प्रसीद मनोरमे तव मुखम् अनालोच्य प्रेयान् वने’द्य विशीर्यति ॥८५॥

tatra sakhī-mukhāt, yathā- śaśimukhi mṛṣā jalpaṁ śrutvā kaṭhora-sakhī-mukhāt praṇayini harau mā viśrambhaṁ kṛthāḥ śithilaṁ vṛthā | parihara manaḥ-klāntiṁ devi prasīda manorame tava mukham anālocya preyān vane’dya viśīryati ||85||

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From a friend's mouth: Moon-faced girl, after hearing false speech from a harsh companion, do not uselessly loosen your trust in loving Hari. Abandon the weariness of your heart, goddess; be gracious, lovely girl. Unable to see your face, your beloved is breaking apart in the forest today.

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यथा वा- अहह गहना केयꣳ वार्ता श्रुतौ पतिताद्य मे विदितम् अनृतꣳ हास्याद् ब्रूषे विमुञ्च कदर्थनाम् । सहचरि कुतो जीवत्य् अस्मिन् जने’पि जनार्दनो द्युतरु-कुसुमꣳ तस्यै हा धिक् कृती वितरिष्यति ॥८६॥

yathā vā- ahaha gahanā keyaṁ vārtā śrutau patitādya me viditam anṛtaṁ hāsyād brūṣe vimuñca kadarthanām | sahacari kuto jīvaty asmin jane’pi janārdano dyutaru-kusumaṁ tasyai hā dhik kṛtī vitariṣyati ||86||

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Or, for example: Alas, what profound news has entered my ear today? I know it is false; you speak only in jest. Stop tormenting me. Companion, how could Janārdana, while this person still lives, give the celestial tree's flower to her? Shame upon the clever man!

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शुक-मुखा, यथा- आस्ते काचिद् दयित-कलहा क्रूर-चेताः सखी ते कीरो वन्यः स्फुटम् इह यया श्यामले पाठितो’स्ति । अत्र व्यर्थे विहग-लपिते सुष्ठु विश्रम्भमाणा मानारम्भे न कुरु हृदयꣳ कातरो’स्मि प्रसीद ॥८७॥

śuka-mukhā, yathā- āste kācid dayita-kalahā krūra-cetāḥ sakhī te kīro vanyaḥ sphuṭam iha yayā śyāmale pāṭhito’sti | atra vyarthe vihaga-lapite suṣṭhu viśrambhamāṇā mānārambhe na kuru hṛdayaṁ kātaro’smi prasīda ||87||

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From a parrot's mouth: Śyāmalā, some cruel-hearted friend who quarrels with her beloved must clearly have trained this forest parrot. Do not place such firm trust in this useless bird's speech and set your heart upon beginning loving resentment. I am afraid; be gracious.

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अनुमितिः- भोगाङ्क-गोत्र-स्खलन-स्वप्नैर् अनुमितिस् त्रिधा ॥८८॥

anumitiḥ- bhogāṅka-gotra-skhalana-svapnair anumitis tridhā ||88||

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Inference: Inference is threefold, arising from marks of enjoyment, a slip into another's name, or dreams.

15.89

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अत्र भोगाङ्कः- भोगाङ्को दृश्यते गात्रे विपक्षस्य प्रियस्य च ॥८९॥

atra bhogāṅkaḥ- bhogāṅko dṛśyate gātre vipakṣasya priyasya ca ||89||

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Marks of enjoyment: Such marks may be seen upon the rival's body or upon the beloved's.

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तत्र विपक्ष-गात्रे भोगाङ्क-दर्शनꣳ, यथा- कालिन्दी-तट-धूर्त चाटुभिर् अलꣳ निद्रातु चन्द्रावली खिन्नाक्षी क्षणम् अङ्गनाद् अपसर क्रुद्धास्ति वृद्धा गृहे । किञ्चिद् बिम्बित-धातु-पत्र-मकरी-चित्रेण तत्राधुना सर्वा ते ललिता-ललाट-फलकेनोद्घाटिता चातुरी ॥९०॥

tatra vipakṣa-gātre bhogāṅka-darśanaṁ, yathā- kālindī-taṭa-dhūrta cāṭubhir alaṁ nidrātu candrāvalī khinnākṣī kṣaṇam aṅganād apasara kruddhāsti vṛddhā gṛhe | kiñcid bimbita-dhātu-patra-makarī-citreṇa tatrādhunā sarvā te lalitā-lalāṭa-phalakenodghāṭitā cāturī ||90||

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Seeing marks of enjoyment upon the rival's body: Rogue of Yamunā's bank, enough with flattering words. Candrāvalī's eyes are tired, so let her sleep for a moment. Leave the courtyard; an angry elder is in the house. The faint reflected makara-shaped design of mineral pigment upon Lalitā's forehead has now exposed all your cleverness.

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प्रिय-गात्रे भोगाङ्क-दर्शनꣳ, यथा विदग्ध-माधवे (४.४०)- मुक्तान्तर्-निमिषꣳ मदीय-पदवीम् उद्वीक्षमाणस्य ते जाने केशर-रेणुभिर् निपतितैः शोणीकृते लोचने । शीतैः कानन-वायुभिर् विरचितो बिम्बाधरे च व्रणः सङ्कोचꣳ त्यज देव दैव-हतया न त्वꣳ मया दूष्यसे ॥९१॥

priya-gātre bhogāṅka-darśanaṁ, yathā vidagdha-mādhave (4.40)- muktāntar-nimiṣaṁ madīya-padavīm udvīkṣamāṇasya te jāne keśara-reṇubhir nipatitaiḥ śoṇīkṛte locane | śītaiḥ kānana-vāyubhir viracito bimbādhare ca vraṇaḥ saṅkocaṁ tyaja deva daiva-hatayā na tvaṁ mayā dūṣyase ||91||

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Seeing marks upon the beloved's body, as in Vidagdha-mādhava 4.40: I know that your eye became red from falling filaments as you watched my path without blinking, and that cool forest winds produced the wound upon your bimba lip. Lord, abandon your hesitation. Struck by fate, I do not blame you.

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तत्र गोत्र-स्खलनम्- विपक्ष-सꣳज्ञयाह्वानम् ईर्ष्यातिशय-कारणम् । आसाꣳ तु गोत्र-स्खलनꣳ दुःखदꣳ मरणाद् अपि ॥९२॥

tatra gotra-skhalanam- vipakṣa-saṁjñayāhvānam īrṣyātiśaya-kāraṇam | āsāṁ tu gotra-skhalanaṁ duḥkhadaṁ maraṇād api ||92||

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A slip into another's name: Addressing one woman by a rival's name produces extreme jealousy. For these women, a slip into another's name causes suffering worse than death.

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तेन यथा बिल्वमङ्गले- राधा-मोहन-मन्दिराद् उपगतश् चन्द्रावलीम् ऊचिवान् राधे क्षेमम् इहेति तस्य वचनꣳ श्रुत्वाह चन्द्रावली । कꣳस क्षेमम् अये विमुग्ध-हृदये कꣳसः क्व दृष्टस् त्वया राधा क्वेति विलज्जितो नत-मुखः स्मेरो हरिः पातु वः ॥९३॥

tena yathā bilvamaṅgale- rādhā-mohana-mandirād upagataś candrāvalīm ūcivān rādhe kṣemam iheti tasya vacanaṁ śrutvāha candrāvalī | kaṁsa kṣemam aye vimugdha-hṛdaye kaṁsaḥ kva dṛṣṭas tvayā rādhā kveti vilajjito nata-mukhaḥ smero hariḥ pātu vaḥ ||93||

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An example from Bilvamaṅgala: Coming from Rādhā's enchanting temple, he said to Candrāvalī, 'Rādhā, are you well here?' Hearing his words, Candrāvalī replied, 'Kaṁsa, are you well?' 'Innocent-hearted girl, where did you see Kaṁsa?' 'And where is Rādhā?' May Hari, embarrassed, face lowered and smiling, protect you.

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यथा वा- अहह विलसत्य् अग्रे चन्द्रावली विमल-द्युतिः कितव कलिता तारा सात्र त्वया क्व नु षोडशी । तिमिर-मलिनाकार क्षिप्रꣳ व्रजारुण-मण्डला मम सहचरी यावन् मन्यु-द्युतिꣳ न विमुञ्चति ॥९४॥

yathā vā- ahaha vilasaty agre candrāvalī vimala-dyutiḥ kitava kalitā tārā sātra tvayā kva nu ṣoḍaśī | timira-malinākāra kṣipraṁ vrajāruṇa-maṇḍalā mama sahacarī yāvan manyu-dyutiṁ na vimuñcati ||94||

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Or, for example: Alas, spotless and radiant Candrāvalī shines before you. Cheat, where is the full moon that you have formed here with the star Tārā? Dark and impure in form, quickly leave Vraja's red horizon before my companion releases the radiance of her anger.

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अथ स्वप्नः- हरेर् विदूषकस्यापि स्वप्नः स्वप्नायितꣳ मतः ॥९५॥

atha svapnaḥ- harer vidūṣakasyāpi svapnaḥ svapnāyitaṁ mataḥ ||95||

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Now dreams: The sleep speech of Hari or even of his jester is considered evidence from a dream.

15.96

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तत्र हरेः स्वप्नायितम्, यथा- शपे तुभ्यꣳ राधे त्वम् असि हृदये त्वꣳ मम बहिस् त्वम् अग्रे त्वꣳ पृष्ठे त्वम् इह भवने त्वꣳ गिरि-वने । इति स्वप्ने जल्पꣳ निशि निशमयन्ती मधुरिपोर् अभूत् तल्पे चन्द्रावलिर् अथ परावर्तित-मुखी ॥९६॥

tatra hareḥ svapnāyitam, yathā- śape tubhyaṁ rādhe tvam asi hṛdaye tvaṁ mama bahis tvam agre tvaṁ pṛṣṭhe tvam iha bhavane tvaṁ giri-vane | iti svapne jalpaṁ niśi niśamayantī madhuripor abhūt talpe candrāvalir atha parāvartita-mukhī ||96||

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Hari's speech in sleep, for example: 'Rādhā, I swear to you: you are within my heart and outside me, before me and behind me, here in the house and in the mountain forest.' Hearing Madhu's enemy speak thus in his dream at night, Candrāvalī turned her face away upon the bed.

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विदूषकस्य, यथा- अवञ्चि चटु-पाटवैर् अघभिदाद्य पद्मा-सखी ततस् त्वरय राधिकाꣳ किम् इति माधवि ध्यायसि । निशम्य मधुमङ्गलाद् इति गिरꣳ पुरः स्वप्नजाꣳ विदून-वदना सखि ज्वलति पश्य चन्द्रावली ॥९७॥

vidūṣakasya, yathā- avañci caṭu-pāṭavair aghabhidādya padmā-sakhī tatas tvaraya rādhikāṁ kim iti mādhavi dhyāyasi | niśamya madhumaṅgalād iti giraṁ puraḥ svapnajāṁ vidūna-vadanā sakhi jvalati paśya candrāvalī ||97||

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The jester's speech in sleep: 'Agha's destroyer has deceived Padmā's friend today with his skill in flattery. Mādhavī, why do you hesitate? Hurry Rādhikā there!' Friend, see how Candrāvalī's distressed face burns after hearing these words from Madhumaṅgala's dream.

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अथ दर्शनम्, यथा- मिथ्या मा वद कन्दरे मम सखीꣳ हित्वा त्वम् एकाकिनीꣳ निष्क्रान्तः पृथु-सम्भ्रमेण किम् अपि प्रख्यापयन् कैतवम् । दूरात् किञ्चिद् उदञ्चितेन रसना-शब्देन सातङ्कया निष्क्रम्याथ तया शठेन्द्र पुलिने दृष्टो’सि राधा-सखः ॥९८॥

atha darśanam, yathā- mithyā mā vada kandare mama sakhīṁ hitvā tvam ekākinīṁ niṣkrāntaḥ pṛthu-sambhrameṇa kim api prakhyāpayan kaitavam | dūrāt kiñcid udañcitena rasanā-śabdena sātaṅkayā niṣkramyātha tayā śaṭhendra puline dṛṣṭo’si rādhā-sakhaḥ ||98||

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Now direct seeing: Do not lie. You left my friend alone in the cave and came out in great agitation, somehow advertising your deception. Alarmed by the slight sound of your tongue raised in the distance, she emerged and saw you upon the riverbank, king of rogues and companion of Rādhā.

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यथा वा- सहचरि परिगुम्फ्य प्रातर् एवार्पितासीद् व्रज-पति-सुत-कण्ठे या मयोत्कण्ठयाद्य । अपि हृदि ललितायास् तस्थुषी हन्त हृन् मे दहति दहन-दीप्तिः पश्य गुञ्जावली सा ॥९९॥

yathā vā- sahacari parigumphya prātar evārpitāsīd vraja-pati-suta-kaṇṭhe yā mayotkaṇṭhayādya | api hṛdi lalitāyās tasthuṣī hanta hṛn me dahati dahana-dīptiḥ paśya guñjāvalī sā ||99||

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Or, for example: Companion, early this morning I eagerly strung this guñjā necklace and placed it upon the son of Vraja's king. Alas, now see that same necklace resting over Lalitā's heart and burning my own heart with the radiance of fire.

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अथ निर्हेतुः- अकारणाद् द्वयोर् एव कारणाभासतस् तथा । प्रोद्यन् प्रणय एवायꣳ व्रजेन् निर्हेतु-मानताम् ॥१००॥

atha nirhetuḥ- akāraṇād dvayor eva kāraṇābhāsatas tathā | prodyan praṇaya evāyaṁ vrajen nirhetu-mānatām ||100||

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Now causeless loving resentment: Intimacy arising in either or both lovers without a cause or from the mere appearance of a cause may become causeless loving resentment.

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आद्यꣳ मानꣳ परीणामꣳ प्रणयस्य जगुर् बुधाः । द्वितीयꣳ पुनर् अस्यैव विलास-भर-वैभवम् । बुधैः प्रणयमानाख्य एष एव प्रकीर्तितः ॥१०१॥

ādyaṁ mānaṁ parīṇāmaṁ praṇayasya jagur budhāḥ | dvitīyaṁ punar asyaiva vilāsa-bhara-vaibhavam | budhaiḥ praṇayamānākhya eṣa eva prakīrtitaḥ ||101||

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The wise call the first natural loving resentment a transformation of intimacy. The second is the abundant glory of intimacy's playful expression. This very condition is celebrated by the learned as intimate loving resentment.

15.102

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तथा चोक्तम् (सरस्वती-कण्ठाभरणे ५.४८)- अहेर् इव गतिः प्रेम्णः स्वभाव-कुटिला भवेत् । अतो हेतोर् अहेतोश् च यूनोर् मान उदञ्चति ॥१०२॥

tathā coktam (sarasvatī-kaṇṭhābharaṇe 5.48)- aher iva gatiḥ premṇaḥ svabhāva-kuṭilā bhavet | ato hetor ahetoś ca yūnor māna udañcati ||102||

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Thus it is said in Sarasvatī-kaṇṭhābharaṇa 5.48: The course of love, like that of a serpent, is naturally crooked. Therefore loving resentment arises between the young lovers both with and without a cause.

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अवहित्थादयो ह्य् अत्र विज्ञेया व्यभिचारिणः ॥१०३॥

avahitthādayo hy atra vijñeyā vyabhicāriṇaḥ ||103||

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Concealment and the other related states should be understood here as transitory emotions.

15.104

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तत्र कृष्णस्य, यथा- अव्यक्त-स्मित-दृष्टिम् अर्पय पुरः स्वल्पो’पि मन्तुर् न मे पत्युर् वञ्चन-पाटवाद् व्रजपते ज्योत्स्नी-निशार्धꣳ ययौ । शुभ्रालङ्कृतिभिर् द्रुतꣳ पथि मया दूरꣳ ततः प्रस्थिते सान्द्रा चान्द्रम् अरुन्ध बिम्बम् अचिराद् आकस्मिकी कालिका ॥१०४॥

tatra kṛṣṇasya, yathā- avyakta-smita-dṛṣṭim arpaya puraḥ svalpo’pi mantur na me patyur vañcana-pāṭavād vrajapate jyotsnī-niśārdhaṁ yayau | śubhrālaṅkṛtibhir drutaṁ pathi mayā dūraṁ tataḥ prasthite sāndrā cāndram arundha bimbam acirād ākasmikī kālikā ||104||

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Causeless resentment in Kṛṣṇa: Cast before me a glance with an emerging smile; I have committed not even a slight offense. Moon-faced girl, half the moonlit night passed while I skillfully deceived my husband. Dressed swiftly in white ornaments, I then traveled far along the path, but a dense and sudden black cloud soon covered the moon's disk.

15.105

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यथा वा- पुष्पेभ्यः स्पृहया विलम्बितवतीम् आलोक्य माम् उन्मनाः कꣳसारिः सखि लम्बितानन-शशी तूष्णीꣳ निकुञ्जे स्थितः । आतङ्केन मया तद्-अङ्घ्रि-नखरे क्षिप्ते प्रसूनाञ्जलौ तस्यालीक-रुषा भ्रुवꣳ विभुजतो’प्य् आविर्बभूव स्मितम् ॥१०५॥

yathā vā- puṣpebhyaḥ spṛhayā vilambitavatīm ālokya mām unmanāḥ kaṁsāriḥ sakhi lambitānana-śaśī tūṣṇīṁ nikuñje sthitaḥ | ātaṅkena mayā tad-aṅghri-nakhare kṣipte prasūnāñjalau tasyālīka-ruṣā bhruvaṁ vibhujato’py āvirbabhūva smitam ||105||

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Or, for example: Friend, seeing that my desire for flowers delayed me, Kaṁsa's enemy became absent-minded, the moon of his face lowered, and he stood silent in the bower. In alarm I cast a handful of flowers upon the nails of his feet. Even as he arched his eyebrow in false anger, a smile appeared.

15.106

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कृष्ण-प्रियायाः, यथा उद्धव-सन्देशे (४४)- तिष्ठन् गोष्ठाङ्गण-भुवि मुहुर् लोचनान्तꣳ विधत्ते जातोत्कण्ठस् तव सखि हरिर् देहली-वेदिकायाम् । मिथ्या-मानोन्नति-कवलिते किꣳ गवाक्षार्पिताक्षी स्वान्तम् हन्त ग्लपयसि बहिः प्रीणय प्राण-नाथम् ॥१०६॥

kṛṣṇa-priyāyāḥ, yathā uddhava-sandeśe (44)- tiṣṭhan goṣṭhāṅgaṇa-bhuvi muhur locanāntaṁ vidhatte jātotkaṇṭhas tava sakhi harir dehalī-vedikāyām | mithyā-mānonnati-kavalite kiṁ gavākṣārpitākṣī svāntam hanta glapayasi bahiḥ prīṇaya prāṇa-nātham ||106||

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Causeless resentment in Kṛṣṇa's beloved, as in Uddhava-sandeśa 44: Friend, standing in the courtyard of the cowherd settlement, eager Hari repeatedly directs the corner of his eye toward the veranda at your threshold. Why, your eyes fixed upon the lattice and your heart swallowed by the rise of false resentment, do you make yourself languish? Go outside and delight the lord of your life.

15.107

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यथा वा- अहम् इह विचिनोमि त्वद्-गिरैव प्रसूनꣳ कथय कथम् अकाण्डे चण्डि वाचꣳ यमासि । विदितम् उपधिनालꣳ राधिके शाधि केन प्रिय-सखि कुसुमेन श्रोत्रम् उत्तꣳसयामि ॥१०७॥

yathā vā- aham iha vicinomi tvad-giraiva prasūnaṁ kathaya katham akāṇḍe caṇḍi vācaṁ yamāsi | viditam upadhinālaṁ rādhike śādhi kena priya-sakhi kusumena śrotram uttaṁsayāmi ||107||

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Or, for example: At your own instruction I am gathering flowers here. Fierce girl, why do you suddenly utter such words? Rādhikā, enough pretexts; tell me with which flower I should decorate my dear friend's ear.

15.108

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द्वयोर् एव युगपद्, यथा- कुञ्जे तुष्णीम् असि नत-शिराः किꣳ चिरात् त्वꣳ मुरारे किꣳ वा श्यामे त्वम् अपि विमुखी मौन-मुद्राꣳ तनोषि । ज्ञातꣳ ज्ञातꣳ स्मित-विमुषिते कापि वामास्ति योग्या क्रीडा-वादे बलवति यया न द्वयोर् एव भङ्गः ॥१०८॥

dvayor eva yugapad, yathā- kuñje tuṣṇīm asi nata-śirāḥ kiṁ cirāt tvaṁ murāre kiṁ vā śyāme tvam api vimukhī mauna-mudrāṁ tanoṣi | jñātaṁ jñātaṁ smita-vimuṣite kāpi vāmāsti yogyā krīḍā-vāde balavati yayā na dvayor eva bhaṅgaḥ ||108||

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Causeless resentment in both at once: Murāri, why have you remained silent in the bower with lowered head for so long? Dark girl, why do you also turn away and maintain the seal of silence? I know, I know! Deprived of smiles, you have discovered some extraordinary game of contrariness in which neither of you can be defeated.

15.109

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यथा वा- कुञ्ज-द्वारि निविष्टयोस् तरणिजा-तीरे द्वयोर् एव नौ तत्रान्योन्यम् अपश्यतोः सखि मुधा निर्बन्धतः क्लान्तयोः । हस्ते द्राग् अथ दाडिमी-फलम् अभिन्यस्ते मया निस्तलꣳ राधाम् उद्भिदुर-स्मिताꣳ परिहसन् फुल्लाङ्गम् आलिङ्गिषम् ॥१०९॥

yathā vā- kuñja-dvāri niviṣṭayos taraṇijā-tīre dvayor eva nau tatrānyonyam apaśyatoḥ sakhi mudhā nirbandhataḥ klāntayoḥ | haste drāg atha dāḍimī-phalam abhinyaste mayā nistalaṁ rādhām udbhidura-smitāṁ parihasan phullāṅgam āliṅgiṣam ||109||

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Or, for example: Friend, when the two of us sat at the bower door on Yamunā's bank, stubbornly exhausted and uselessly refusing to look at one another, you suddenly placed a smooth pomegranate fruit into our hands. When contact arose, I teased Rādhā, whose smile broke open, and embraced her blossoming body.

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निर्हेतुकः स्वयꣳ शाम्येत् स्वयꣳग्राह-स्मिताविधिः ॥११०॥

nirhetukaḥ svayaṁ śāmyet svayaṁgrāha-smitāvidhiḥ ||110||

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Causeless loving resentment subsides by itself when an involuntary smile appears.

15.111

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यथा- रोषस् तवाभूद् यदि राधिके’धिक- स्तथास्तु गण्डः कथम् उच्छ्वसित्य् असौ । स्व-नर्मणेत्थꣳ दुरपह्नव-स्मिताꣳ प्रियाम् अचुम्बत् पशुपेन्द्र-नन्दनः ॥१११॥

yathā- roṣas tavābhūd yadi rādhike’dhika- stathāstu gaṇḍaḥ katham ucchvasity asau | sva-narmaṇetthaṁ durapahnava-smitāṁ priyām acumbat paśupendra-nandanaḥ ||111||

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For example: 'Rādhikā, if your anger has become so great, let it be. But why does your cheek heave in this way?' Through this joke the cowherd king's son exposed his beloved's smile, impossible to conceal, and kissed her.

15.112

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हेतुर् यस् तु शमꣳ यथायोग्यꣳ प्रकल्पितैः । साम-भेद-क्रिया-दान-नत्य्-उपेक्षा-रसान्तरैः ॥११२॥

hetur yas tu śamaṁ yathāyogyaṁ prakalpitaiḥ | sāma-bheda-kriyā-dāna-naty-upekṣā-rasāntaraiḥ ||112||

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Loving resentment with a cause is suitably pacified by conciliation, division, action, a gift, bowing, neglect, or the introduction of another rasa.

15.113

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मानोपशमनस्याङ्का बाष्प-मोक्ष-स्मितादयः ॥११३॥

mānopaśamanasyāṅkā bāṣpa-mokṣa-smitādayaḥ ||113||

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The signs of loving resentment's pacification include releasing tears, smiling, and others.

15.114

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तत्र साम- प्रिय-वाक्यस्य रचनꣳ यत् तु तत् साम गीयते ॥११४॥

tatra sāma- priya-vākyasya racanaṁ yat tu tat sāma gīyate ||114||

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Conciliation: The formation of loving speech is celebrated as conciliation.

15.115

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यथा- जातꣳ सुन्दरि तथय्म् एव पृथुना राधे’पराधेन मे किन्तु स्वारसिको ममात्र शरणꣳ स्नेहस् त्वदीयो बली । इत्य् आकर्ण्य गिरꣳ हरेर् नत-मुखी बाष्पाम्भसाꣳ धारया सानङ्गोत्सव-रङ्ग-मङ्गल-घटो पूर्णावकार्षीत् कुचौ ॥११५॥

yathā- jātaṁ sundari tathaym eva pṛthunā rādhe’parādhena me kintu svārasiko mamātra śaraṇaṁ snehas tvadīyo balī | ity ākarṇya giraṁ harer nata-mukhī bāṣpāmbhasāṁ dhārayā sānaṅgotsava-raṅga-maṅgala-ghaṭo pūrṇāvakārṣīt kucau ||115||

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For example: 'Beautiful Rādhā, it is true that a great offense has arisen from me. Yet my only refuge here is your powerful and spontaneous affection.' Hearing Hari's words, she lowered her face, while a stream of tears filled the two auspicious ceremonial pots of Love's festival that were her breasts.

15.116

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अथ भेदः- भेदो द्विधा स्वयꣳ भङ्ग्या स्व-माहात्म्य-प्रकाशनम् । सख्यादिभिर् उपालम्भ-प्रयोगश् चेति कीर्त्यते ॥११६॥

atha bhedaḥ- bhedo dvidhā svayaṁ bhaṅgyā sva-māhātmya-prakāśanam | sakhyādibhir upālambha-prayogaś ceti kīrtyate ||116||

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Now division: Division is celebrated in two forms: indirectly revealing one's own greatness through one's own speech, or having friends and others employ reproach.

15.117

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तत्र भङ्ग्या स्व-माहात्म्य-प्रकाशनꣳ, यथा विदग्ध-माधवे (४.४१)- चञ्चन्-मीन-विलोचनासि कमठोत्कृष्ट-स्तनी सङ्गता क्रोडेन स्फुरता तवायम् अधरः प्रह्लाद-सꣳवर्धनः । मध्यो’सौ बलि-बन्धनो मुख-रुचा रामास् त्वया निर्जिता लब्धा श्री-घनताद्य मानिनि मनस्य् अङ्गीकृता कल्किता ॥११७॥

tatra bhaṅgyā sva-māhātmya-prakāśanaṁ, yathā vidagdha-mādhave (4.41)- cañcan-mīna-vilocanāsi kamaṭhotkṛṣṭa-stanī saṅgatā kroḍena sphuratā tavāyam adharaḥ prahlāda-saṁvardhanaḥ | madhyo’sau bali-bandhano mukha-rucā rāmās tvayā nirjitā labdhā śrī-ghanatādya mānini manasy aṅgīkṛtā kalkitā ||117||

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Indirectly revealing one's greatness, as in Vidagdha-mādhava 4.41: You possess darting fish-like eyes and breasts superior to the tortoise; joined with your shining boar-like hips, your lower lip increases Prahlāda's joy. Your waist binds Bali, while the radiance of your face conquers every Rāma-like beauty. Proud girl, today you have obtained the density of Śrī, and Kalki has been accepted within your mind.

15.118

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अथवेदꣳ प्रियोक्तित्वात् सामोदाहरणꣳ भवेत् । नायकस्य स्व-वचसा भङ्ग्यायꣳ भेद ईर्यते ॥११८॥

athavedaṁ priyoktitvāt sāmodāharaṇaṁ bhavet | nāyakasya sva-vacasā bhaṅgyāyaṁ bheda īryate ||118||

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Alternatively, because this example consists of loving words, it may illustrate conciliation. This indirect division is accomplished through the hero's own speech.

15.119

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यथा- रूक्षा यन् मयि वर्तसे त्वम् अभितः स्निग्धे’पि ते दूषणꣳ तत्रास्ते न हि किन्तु तत् किल ममानौचित्य-जातꣳ फलम् । येन स्वस्तरुणीर् उपेक्ष्य चरमाम् अप्य् आश्रयन्तीर् दशाꣳ प्रेमार्तꣳ व्रज-यौवतꣳ च सुमुखि त्वꣳ केवलꣳ सेव्यसे ॥११९॥

yathā- rūkṣā yan mayi vartase tvam abhitaḥ snigdhe’pi te dūṣaṇaṁ tatrāste na hi kintu tat kila mamānaucitya-jātaṁ phalam | yena svastaruṇīr upekṣya caramām apy āśrayantīr daśāṁ premārtaṁ vraja-yauvataṁ ca sumukhi tvaṁ kevalaṁ sevyase ||119||

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For example: Though I remain affectionate, you act harshly toward me from every side. The fault is not yours; it is the fruit of my own impropriety. Lovely-faced girl, ignoring the young women of my own party and the women of Vraja who, afflicted by love, have reached their final condition, I serve you alone.

15.120

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सख्यादिभिर् उपालम्भ-प्रयोगो, यथा- कर्तुꣳ सुन्दरि शङ्खचूड-मथने नास्मिन्न् उपेक्षोचिता सर्वेषाम् अभय-प्रदान-पदवी-बद्ध-व्रते प्रेयसि । इत्य् आलीभिर् अलक्षितꣳ मुरभिदा भद्रावली भेदिता नासाग्रे वर-मौक्तिक-श्रियम् अधाद् अस्रस्य सा बिन्दुना ॥१२०॥

sakhyādibhir upālambha-prayogo, yathā- kartuṁ sundari śaṅkhacūḍa-mathane nāsminn upekṣocitā sarveṣām abhaya-pradāna-padavī-baddha-vrate preyasi | ity ālībhir alakṣitaṁ murabhidā bhadrāvalī bheditā nāsāgre vara-mauktika-śriyam adhād asrasya sā bindunā ||120||

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Reproach employed by friends and others: 'Beautiful beloved, it is not proper to neglect this slayer of Śaṅkhacūḍa, who has taken a vow to follow the path of granting fearlessness to everyone.' Thus, unnoticed by Murāri, Bhadrāvalī was divided from her anger by her friends, and a drop of tears assumed the beauty of a splendid pearl upon the tip of her nose.

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अथ दानम्- व्याजेन भूषणादीनाꣳ प्रदानꣳ दानम् उच्यते ॥१२१॥

atha dānam- vyājena bhūṣaṇādīnāṁ pradānaṁ dānam ucyate ||121||

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Now, gifts. The giving of ornaments and the like under some pretext is called a gift.

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यथा- कामो नाम सुहृन् ममास्ति भवतीम् आकर्ण्य मत्-प्रेयसीꣳ हारस् तेन तवार्पितो’यम् उरसि प्राप्नोतु सङ्गोत्सवम् । इत्य् उन्नम्य करꣳ मुरद्विषि वदत्य् उद्भिन्न-सान्द्र-स्मिता पद्मा मान-विनिग्रहात् प्रणयिना तेनोद्भटꣳ चुम्बिता ॥१२२॥

yathā- kāmo nāma suhṛn mamāsti bhavatīm ākarṇya mat-preyasīṁ hāras tena tavārpito’yam urasi prāpnotu saṅgotsavam | ity unnamya karaṁ muradviṣi vadaty udbhinna-sāndra-smitā padmā māna-vinigrahāt praṇayinā tenodbhaṭaṁ cumbitā ||122||

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For example: 'I have a friend named Love. Hearing that you are my beloved, he has offered you this necklace; let it celebrate union upon your breast.' As the enemy of Mura said this and raised his hand, Padma's dense smile burst forth. Her loving resentment subdued, her beloved kissed her ardently.

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अथ नतिः- केवलꣳ दैन्यम् आलम्ब्य पाद-पातो नतिर् मता ॥१२३॥

atha natiḥ- kevalaṁ dainyam ālambya pāda-pāto natir matā ||123||

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Now, submission. Falling at her feet while relying solely on humility is regarded as submission.

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यथा- क्षिति-लुठित-शिखण्डापीडम् आरान् मुकुन्दे रचयति रति-कान्त-स्तोम-कान्ते प्रणामम् । नयन-जलधराभ्याꣳ कुर्वती बाष्प-वृष्टिꣳ वरतनुर् इह मान-ग्रीष्म-नाशꣳ शशꣳस ॥१२४॥

yathā- kṣiti-luṭhita-śikhaṇḍāpīḍam ārān mukunde racayati rati-kānta-stoma-kānte praṇāmam | nayana-jaladharābhyāṁ kurvatī bāṣpa-vṛṣṭiṁ varatanur iha māna-grīṣma-nāśaṁ śaśaṁsa ||124||

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When Mukunda, his peacock-plume crown rolling upon the ground, bowed nearby before that lovely one who is the splendor of hosts of love's beauties, the exquisite maiden showered tears from the clouds of her eyes and thereby proclaimed the end of the summer heat of resentment.

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अथ उपेक्षा- सामादौ तु परिक्षीणे स्याद् उपेक्षावधीरणम् । उपेक्षा कथ्यते कैश्चित् तूष्णीम्भावतया स्थितिः ॥१२५॥

atha upekṣā- sāmādau tu parikṣīṇe syād upekṣāvadhīraṇam | upekṣā kathyate kaiścit tūṣṇīmbhāvatayā sthitiḥ ||125||

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Now, disregard. When conciliation and the other remedies have been exhausted, neglectful disregard may be used. Some authorities define disregard as remaining silent.

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तद् द्वयꣳ, यथा- सूनुर् वल्लभ एष वल्लवपतेस् तत्रापि वीराग्रणी- स्तत्रापि स्मर-मण्डली-विजयिना रूपेण विभ्राजितः । सख्यः सम्प्रति रूक्षता पृथुर् इयꣳ तेनात्र न श्रेयसे दूरे पश्यत याति निष्ठुर-मनाः का युक्तिर् अत्रोचिता ॥१२६॥

tad dvayaṁ, yathā- sūnur vallabha eṣa vallavapates tatrāpi vīrāgraṇī- statrāpi smara-maṇḍalī-vijayinā rūpeṇa vibhrājitaḥ | sakhyaḥ samprati rūkṣatā pṛthur iyaṁ tenātra na śreyase dūre paśyata yāti niṣṭhura-manāḥ kā yuktir atrocitā ||126||

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An example of both: 'He is the cherished son of the cowherd king, foremost even among heroes, and radiant with a beauty that conquers the entire realm of Love. Friends, such great harshness toward him now cannot bring good. Look - that hard-hearted one is going far away. What suitable course remains here?'

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माने मुहुर् नितिभिर् अप्य् अतिदुर्निवारे वाचꣳयम-व्रतम् अहꣳ तरसाग्रहीषम् । बाष्पꣳ ततो विकिरती निजगाद पद्मा पौष्पꣳ रजः पतितम् अत्र दृशोर् ममेति ॥१२७॥

māne muhur nitibhir apy atidurnivāre vācaṁyama-vratam ahaṁ tarasāgrahīṣam | bāṣpaṁ tato vikiratī nijagāda padmā pauṣpaṁ rajaḥ patitam atra dṛśor mameti ||127||

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'When her resentment proved extremely difficult to turn aside even through repeated counsels, I quickly took a vow of silence.' Then, scattering tears, Padma said, 'Flower pollen has fallen into my eyes.'

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अथवा- प्रसादन-विधिꣳ मुक्त्वा वाक्यैर् अन्यार्थ-सूचकैः । प्रसादनꣳ मृगाक्षीणाम् उपेक्षेति स्मृता बुधैः ॥१२८॥

athavā- prasādana-vidhiṁ muktvā vākyair anyārtha-sūcakaiḥ | prasādanaṁ mṛgākṣīṇām upekṣeti smṛtā budhaiḥ ||128||

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Or else: abandoning direct methods of appeasement and winning over the doe-eyed beloved through words that suggest another meaning is known by the wise as disregard.

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यथा- धम्मिल्ले नव-मालती परिचिता सव्ये च शब्द-ग्रहे मल्ली सुन्दरि दक्षिणे तु कतरत् पुष्पꣳ तव भ्राजते । आघ्रेयꣳ परिचेतुम् इत्य् उपहिते व्याजेन नासा-पुटे गण्डोद्यत्-पुलका विहस्य हरिणा चन्द्रावली चुम्बिता ॥१२९॥

yathā- dhammille nava-mālatī paricitā savye ca śabda-grahe mallī sundari dakṣiṇe tu katarat puṣpaṁ tava bhrājate | āghreyaṁ paricetum ity upahite vyājena nāsā-puṭe gaṇḍodyat-pulakā vihasya hariṇā candrāvalī cumbitā ||129||

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For example: 'A fresh malati blossom adorns your braid, and jasmine rests beside your left ear, beautiful one - but what flower shines at your right? Let me smell it and discover.' On this pretext Hari brought his nose close; as horripilation rose upon her cheek, he laughed and kissed Candravali.

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अथ रसान्तरम्- आकस्मिक-भयादीनाꣳ प्रस्तुतिः स्याद् रसान्तरम् । यादृच्छिकꣳ बुद्धि-पूर्वम् इति द्वेधा तद् उच्यते ॥१३०॥

atha rasāntaram- ākasmika-bhayādīnāṁ prastutiḥ syād rasāntaram | yādṛcchikaṁ buddhi-pūrvam iti dvedhā tad ucyate ||130||

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Now, a change of rasa. Introducing a sudden occasion of fear or another emotion is called a change of rasa. It is said to be of two kinds: accidental and intentional.

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तत्र यादृच्छिकम्- उपस्थितम् अकस्माद् यत् तद् यादृच्छिकम् उच्यते ॥१३१॥

tatra yādṛcchikam- upasthitam akasmād yat tad yādṛcchikam ucyate ||131||

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Of these, the accidental kind is whatever arises unexpectedly.

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यथा- अपि गुरुभिर् उपायैर् अद्य सामादिभिर् या लवम् अपि न मृगाक्षी मान-मुद्राम् अभाङ्क्षीत् । हरिम् इह परिरेभे सा स्वयꣳग्राहम् अग्रे नव-जलधर-नादैर् भीषिता पश्य भद्रा ॥१३२॥

yathā- api gurubhir upāyair adya sāmādibhir yā lavam api na mṛgākṣī māna-mudrām abhāṅkṣīt | harim iha parirebhe sā svayaṁgrāham agre nava-jaladhara-nādair bhīṣitā paśya bhadrā ||132||

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For example: 'Though every powerful means - conciliation and the rest - failed today to break even a trace of the doe-eyed girl's seal of resentment, look, gentle one: frightened by the thunder of fresh clouds, she seized Hari and embraced him of her own accord.'

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यथा वा- उपायेषु व्यर्थोन्नतिषु बत सामादिषु सखे सखीनाꣳ चातुर्ये गतवति च सद्यः शिथिलताम् । विशाखायाः कोप-ज्वर-हरण-मन्त्र-प्रतिनिधिꣳ स-चीत्कारꣳ रूक्ष-स्वनितम् अकरोद् उक्ष-दनुजः ॥१३३॥

yathā vā- upāyeṣu vyarthonnatiṣu bata sāmādiṣu sakhe sakhīnāṁ cāturye gatavati ca sadyaḥ śithilatām | viśākhāyāḥ kopa-jvara-haraṇa-mantra-pratinidhiṁ sa-cītkāraṁ rūkṣa-svanitam akarod ukṣa-danujaḥ ||133||

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Or: 'Friend, when the proud advance of conciliation and the other devices had proved futile, and the ingenuity of her companions had suddenly grown feeble, the bull-demon gave a harsh bellow with a roar. It served as a charm to cure Visakha's fever of anger.'

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अथ बुद्धि-पूर्वम्- बुद्धि-पूर्वꣳ तु कान्तेन प्रत्युत्पन्न-धिया कृतम् ॥१३४॥

atha buddhi-pūrvam- buddhi-pūrvaṁ tu kāntena pratyutpanna-dhiyā kṛtam ||134||

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The intentional kind, however, is contrived by the beloved through his quick-witted intelligence.

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यथा- पाणौ पञ्चमुखेन दुष्ट-कृमिणा दष्टो’स्मि रोषाद् इति व्याजात् कूणित-लोचनꣳ व्रज-पतौ व्याभुज्य वक्त्रꣳ स्थिते । सद्यः प्रोज्झित-रोष-वृत्तिर् असकृत् किꣳ वृत्तम् इत्य् आकुला जल्पन्ती स्मित-बन्धुर् आस्यम् अमुना गान्धर्विका चुम्बिता ॥१३५॥

yathā- pāṇau pañcamukhena duṣṭa-kṛmiṇā daṣṭo’smi roṣād iti vyājāt kūṇita-locanaṁ vraja-patau vyābhujya vaktraṁ sthite | sadyaḥ projjhita-roṣa-vṛttir asakṛt kiṁ vṛttam ity ākulā jalpantī smita-bandhur āsyam amunā gāndharvikā cumbitā ||135||

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For example: 'A wicked five-headed worm has bitten my hand in anger!' With this pretext the lord of Vraja turned aside his face and narrowed his eyes. At once Gandharvika abandoned her angry manner and repeatedly cried, 'What happened?' in alarm. Then he kissed her smiling, lovely face.

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यथा वा- न्यस्तꣳ दाम कृतागसाद्य हरिणा दृष्ट्वा पुरो राधया क्षिप्तेनाभिहतः स तेन कपटी दुःखीव भुग्नाननः । मीलन्न् एव निषेदिवान् भुवि ततः सद्यस् तया व्यग्रया पाञिभ्याꣳ धृत-कन्धरः स्थित-मुखो बिम्बोष्ठम् अस्याः पपौ ॥१३६॥

yathā vā- nyastaṁ dāma kṛtāgasādya hariṇā dṛṣṭvā puro rādhayā kṣiptenābhihataḥ sa tena kapaṭī duḥkhīva bhugnānanaḥ | mīlann eva niṣedivān bhuvi tataḥ sadyas tayā vyagrayā pāñibhyāṁ dhṛta-kandharaḥ sthita-mukho bimboṣṭham asyāḥ papau ||136||

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Or: Seeing the garland that offending Hari had placed before her that day, Radha struck him with it. That trickster bent his face as though hurt, closed his eyes, and sat down upon the ground. She immediately grew anxious and held his neck with both hands; keeping his face steady, he drank from her bimba-red lips.

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देश-काल-बलेनैव मुरली-श्रवणेन च । विनाप्य् उपायꣳ मानो’सौ लीयते व्रज-सुभ्रुवाम् ॥१३७॥

deśa-kāla-balenaiva muralī-śravaṇena ca | vināpy upāyaṁ māno’sau līyate vraja-subhruvām ||137||

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Simply through the power of place, through the power of time, or through hearing the flute, the loving resentment of Vraja's beautiful-browed women dissolves without any further remedy.

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तत्र देश-बलेन, यथा- अलꣳ कीर्णꣳ चन्द्रावलिर् अलि-घटा-झङ्कृति-भरैः पुरो वृन्दारण्यꣳ किम् अपि कलयन्ती कुसुमितम् । हरिꣳ च स्मेरास्यꣳ प्रियक-तरु-मूले प्रियम् इतः स्खलन्-माना सख्याम् अदिशत सतृष्णꣳ दृशम् असौ ॥१३८॥

tatra deśa-balena, yathā- alaṁ kīrṇaṁ candrāvalir ali-ghaṭā-jhaṅkṛti-bharaiḥ puro vṛndāraṇyaṁ kim api kalayantī kusumitam | hariṁ ca smerāsyaṁ priyaka-taru-mūle priyam itaḥ skhalan-mānā sakhyām adiśata satṛṣṇaṁ dṛśam asau ||138||

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An example through the power of place: Candravali beheld Vrndavana before her, carpeted with blossoms and filled with the humming of swarms of bees. Then she saw dear Hari nearby, smiling beneath a priyaka tree. Her resentment slipped away, and she directed a thirsty glance toward her friend.

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काल-बलेन, यथा- शरदि मधुर-मूर्तिः पश्य कान्ति-च्छटाभिः स्नपयति रविकन्या-तीर-वन्याꣳ सुधाꣳशुः । इति निशि निशमय्य व्याहृतिꣳ दूतिकायाः स्मित-रुचिभिर् अतानीत् तत्र राधा प्रसादम् ॥१३९॥

kāla-balena, yathā- śaradi madhura-mūrtiḥ paśya kānti-cchaṭābhiḥ snapayati ravikanyā-tīra-vanyāṁ sudhāṁśuḥ | iti niśi niśamayya vyāhṛtiṁ dūtikāyāḥ smita-rucibhir atānīt tatra rādhā prasādam ||139||

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Through the power of time: 'Look! In autumn the moon, exquisite in form, bathes the Yamuna's riverside groves in floods of splendor.' Hearing the messenger speak these words at night, Radha extended her favor toward that place with the radiance of her smile.

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मुरली-शब्देन, यथा- यदि रोषꣳ न हि मुञ्चसि न मुञ्च मम देवि नात्र निर्बन्धः । फुत्कृति-विधूत-मानः स भवतु विजयी हरेर् वेणुः ॥१४०॥

muralī-śabdena, yathā- yadi roṣaṁ na hi muñcasi na muñca mama devi nātra nirbandhaḥ | phutkṛti-vidhūta-mānaḥ sa bhavatu vijayī harer veṇuḥ ||140||

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Through the sound of the flute: 'If you will not give up your anger, then do not give it up, my goddess; I will not insist. Let Hari's flute be victorious - with a single breath it will scatter your resentment.'

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यथा वा- मानस्योपाध्यायि प्रसीद सखि रुन्धि मे श्रुति-द्वन्द्वम् । अयम् उच्चाटन-मन्त्रꣳ सिद्धो वेणुर् वने पठति ॥१४१॥

yathā vā- mānasyopādhyāyi prasīda sakhi rundhi me śruti-dvandvam | ayam uccāṭana-mantraṁ siddho veṇur vane paṭhati ||141||

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Or: 'Teacher of resentment, be gracious, friend, and stop both my ears! In the forest that perfected flute is reciting a potent spell of banishment.'

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तारतम्यꣳ तु मानस्य हेतोः स्यात् तारतम्यतः । स्याल् लघुर् मध्यमश् चासौ महिष्ठश् चेत्य् अतस् त्रिधा ॥१४२॥

tāratamyaṁ tu mānasya hetoḥ syāt tāratamyataḥ | syāl laghur madhyamaś cāsau mahiṣṭhaś cety atas tridhā ||142||

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The degree of loving resentment corresponds to the degree of its cause. Thus it is threefold: light, moderate, and very great.

15.143

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सुसाध्यः स्याल् लघुर् मानो यत्न-साध्यस्य मध्यमः । दुःसाध्यः स्याद् उपायेन महिष्ठः प्रेयसाप्य् अयम् ॥१४३॥

susādhyaḥ syāl laghur māno yatna-sādhyasya madhyamaḥ | duḥsādhyaḥ syād upāyena mahiṣṭhaḥ preyasāpy ayam ||143||

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Light resentment is easily overcome; moderate resentment requires effort; very great resentment is difficult to overcome even by the beloved's remedies.

15.144

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कृष्णे रोषोक्तयस् तासाꣳ वामो दुर्लील-शेखरः । कितवेन्द्रो महा-धूर्तः कठोरो निरपत्रपः ॥१४४॥

kṛṣṇe roṣoktayas tāsāṁ vāmo durlīla-śekharaḥ | kitavendro mahā-dhūrtaḥ kaṭhoro nirapatrapaḥ ||144||

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In anger they address Krsna as contrary one, crown of bad play, emperor of cheats, great deceiver, hard-hearted one, and shameless one.

15.145

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अतिदुर्ललितो गोपी-भुजङ्गो रत-हिण्डकः । गोपिका-धर्म-विध्वꣳसी गोप-साध्वी-विडम्बकः ॥१४५॥

atidurlalito gopī-bhujaṅgo rata-hiṇḍakaḥ | gopikā-dharma-vidhvaṁsī gopa-sādhvī-viḍambakaḥ ||145||

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They also call him excessively spoiled, the libertine among the cowherd women, a prowler in love, a destroyer of the gopis' virtue, and a mocker of virtuous cowherd wives;

15.146

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कामुकेशस् तमिस्रौघः श्यामात्माम्बर-तस्करः । गोवर्धन-तटारण्य-बाट-पाटच्-चरादयः ॥१४६॥

kāmukeśas tamisraughaḥ śyāmātmāmbara-taskaraḥ | govardhana-taṭāraṇya-bāṭa-pāṭac-carādayaḥ ||146||

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lord of libertines, a mass of darkness, dark by nature, a thief of garments, a highway robber in the forests along Govardhana's slopes, and so forth.

15.147

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इति मानः । अथ प्रेम-वैचित्त्यम्- प्रियस्य सन्निकर्षे’पि प्रेमोन्माद-भ्रमाद् भवेत् । या विश्लेष-धियार्तिस् तत् प्रेम-वैचित्त्यम् उच्यते ॥१४७॥

iti mānaḥ | atha prema-vaicittyam- priyasya sannikarṣe’pi premonmāda-bhramād bhavet | yā viśleṣa-dhiyārtis tat prema-vaicittyam ucyate ||147||

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Thus ends loving resentment. Now, love's bewildering contrariety. Even when the beloved is close at hand, the anguish of imagining separation through love's delirious confusion is called love's bewildering contrariety.

15.148

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यथा- आभीरेन्द्र-सुते स्फुरत्य् अपि पुरस् तीव्रानुरागोत्थया विश्लेष-ज्वर-सम्पदा विवश-धीर् अत्यन्तम् उद्घूर्णिता । कान्तꣳ मे सखि दर्शयेति दशनैर् उद्घूर्ण-शस्याङ्कुरा राधा हन्त तथा व्यचेष्टते यतः कृष्णो’प्य् अभूद् विस्मितः ॥१४८॥

yathā- ābhīrendra-sute sphuraty api puras tīvrānurāgotthayā viśleṣa-jvara-sampadā vivaśa-dhīr atyantam udghūrṇitā | kāntaṁ me sakhi darśayeti daśanair udghūrṇa-śasyāṅkurā rādhā hanta tathā vyaceṣṭate yataḥ kṛṣṇo’py abhūd vismitaḥ ||148||

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For example: Although the son of the cowherd king stood plainly before her, the fever of separation born from intense attachment made Radha's mind helpless and sent her reeling utterly. 'Friend, show me my beloved!' she cried, biting the sprouting blades of grass she had torn up in delirium. Alas, she behaved so strangely that even Krsna was astonished.

15.149

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यथा वा, विदग्ध-माधवे (५.४६)- समजनि दवाद् वित्रस्तानाꣳ किम् आर्त-रवो गवाꣳ मयि किम् अभवद् वैगुण्यꣳ वा निरङ्कुशम् ईक्षितम् । व्यरचि निभृतꣳ किꣳ वाहूतिः कयाचिद् अभीष्टया यद् इह सहसा माम् अत्याक्षीद् वने वनजेक्षणः ॥१४९॥

yathā vā, vidagdha-mādhave (5.46)- samajani davād vitrastānāṁ kim ārta-ravo gavāṁ mayi kim abhavad vaiguṇyaṁ vā niraṅkuśam īkṣitam | vyaraci nibhṛtaṁ kiṁ vāhūtiḥ kayācid abhīṣṭayā yad iha sahasā mām atyākṣīd vane vanajekṣaṇaḥ ||149||

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Or, in Vidagdha-madhava 5.46: 'Is that the anguished lowing of cows terrified by a forest fire? Has he seen some unrestrained fault in me? Or has some cherished woman secretly summoned him? Why else has the lotus-eyed one suddenly abandoned me here in the forest?'

15.150

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विलासम् अनुरागस् तु कुत्रचित् कम् अपि व्रजम् । पार्श्वे सन्तम् अपि प्रेष्ठꣳ हारितꣳ कुरुते स्फुटम् ॥१५०॥

vilāsam anurāgas tu kutracit kam api vrajam | pārśve santam api preṣṭhaṁ hāritaṁ kurute sphuṭam ||150||

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In some cases, attachment assumes such an extraordinary play that it plainly makes the dearest beloved seem lost even while he remains at one's side.

15.151

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सुष्ठूदाहरता पट्ट-महिषी-गीत-विभ्रमम् । स्पष्टꣳ मुक्ता-फले चैतद् वोपदेवेन वर्णितम् ॥१५१॥

suṣṭhūdāharatā paṭṭa-mahiṣī-gīta-vibhramam | spaṣṭaṁ muktā-phale caitad vopadevena varṇitam ||151||

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Vopadeva has described this clearly in Mukta-phala by presenting the wondrous song of Krsna's chief queens as a particularly fine example.

15.152

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इति प्रेम-वैचित्त्यम् अथ प्रवासः पूर्व-सङ्गतयोर् यूनोर् भवेद् देशान्तरादिभिः । व्यवधानꣳ तु यत् प्राज्ञैः स प्रवास इतीर्यते ॥१५२॥

iti prema-vaicittyam atha pravāsaḥ pūrva-saṅgatayor yūnor bhaved deśāntarādibhiḥ | vyavadhānaṁ tu yat prājñaiḥ sa pravāsa itīryate ||152||

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Thus ends love's bewildering contrariety. Now, separation by distance. When two young lovers who have already met are kept apart by residence in another land or a similar circumstance, the learned call that condition separation by distance.

15.153

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तज्-जन्य-विप्रलम्भो’यꣳ प्रवासत्वेन कथ्यते । हर्ष-गर्व-मद-व्रीडा वर्जयित्वा समीरिताः ॥१५३॥

taj-janya-vipralambho’yaṁ pravāsatvena kathyate | harṣa-garva-mada-vrīḍā varjayitvā samīritāḥ ||153||

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The love-in-separation produced by that condition is itself described under the name separation by distance. Apart from joy, pride, intoxication, and bashfulness, the states already enumerated may arise in it.

15.154

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शृङ्गार-योग्याः सर्वे’पि प्रवासे व्यभिचारिणः । स द्विधा बुद्धि-पूर्वः स्यात् तथैवाबुद्धि-पूर्वकः ॥१५४॥

śṛṅgāra-yogyāḥ sarve’pi pravāse vyabhicāriṇaḥ | sa dvidhā buddhi-pūrvaḥ syāt tathaivābuddhi-pūrvakaḥ ||154||

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All the transitory emotions suitable to amorous rasa can appear in separation by distance. It is of two kinds: intentional and unintentional.

15.155

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अत्र बुद्धि-पूर्वः- दूरे कार्यानुरोधेन गमः स्याद् बुद्धि-पूर्वकः । कार्यꣳ कृष्णस्य कथितꣳ स्वभक्त-प्रीणनादिकम् ॥१५५॥

atra buddhi-pūrvaḥ- dūre kāryānurodhena gamaḥ syād buddhi-pūrvakaḥ | kāryaṁ kṛṣṇasya kathitaṁ svabhakta-prīṇanādikam ||155||

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Here, the intentional kind. Traveling far away in obedience to some purpose is intentional separation. Krsna's purposes are said to include delighting his devotees and the like.

15.156

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किञ्चिद् दूरे सुदूरे च गमनाद् अप्य् अयꣳ द्विधा ॥१५६॥

kiñcid dūre sudūre ca gamanād apy ayaṁ dvidhā ||156||

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This kind is itself twofold, according to whether the journey is a short distance or very far away.

15.157

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तत्र आद्यः- दृष्टिꣳ निधाय सुरभी-निकुरम्ब-वीथ्याꣳ कृष्णेति वर्ण-युगलाभ्यसेन रसज्ञाम् । शुश्रूषणे मुरलि-निस्वनितस्य कर्णौ चित्तꣳ मुखे तव नयत्य् अहर् अद्य राधा ॥१५७॥

tatra ādyaḥ- dṛṣṭiṁ nidhāya surabhī-nikuramba-vīthyāṁ kṛṣṇeti varṇa-yugalābhyasena rasajñām | śuśrūṣaṇe murali-nisvanitasya karṇau cittaṁ mukhe tava nayaty ahar adya rādhā ||157||

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The first, a short distance: 'Today Radha spent the whole day fixing her gaze upon the path among the herds of cows, training her tongue in the two syllables Krs-na, directing her ears toward the sound of the flute, and carrying her mind to your face.'

15.158

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अथ द्वितीयः- भावी भवꣳश् च भूतश् च त्रि-विधः स तु कीर्त्यते ॥१५८॥

atha dvitīyaḥ- bhāvī bhavaṁś ca bhūtaś ca tri-vidhaḥ sa tu kīrtyate ||158||

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Now, the second kind, a very distant journey. It is said to be threefold: impending, presently occurring, and past.

15.159

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तत्र भावी, यथा उद्धव-सन्देशे (६७)- एष क्षत्ता व्रज-नरपतेः आज्ञया गोकुले’स्मिन् बाले प्रातो नगर-गतये घोषणाम् आतनोति । दुष्टम् भूयः स्फुरति च बलाद् ईक्षणꣳ दक्षिणꣳ मे तेन स्वान्तꣳ स्फुटति चटुलम् हन्त भाव्यꣳ न जाने ॥१५९॥

tatra bhāvī, yathā uddhava-sandeśe (67)- eṣa kṣattā vraja-narapateḥ ājñayā gokule’smin bāle prāto nagara-gataye ghoṣaṇām ātanoti | duṣṭam bhūyaḥ sphurati ca balād īkṣaṇaṁ dakṣiṇaṁ me tena svāntaṁ sphuṭati caṭulam hanta bhāvyaṁ na jāne ||159||

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The impending kind, as in Uddhava-sandesa 67: 'At the command of Vraja's king, this gatekeeper is announcing throughout Gokula that the boys will leave for the city tomorrow morning. My right eye throbs violently again and again, and my restless heart trembles. Alas, I do not know what is about to happen.'

15.160

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भवन्, यथा ललित-माधवे (३.७)- भानोर् बिम्बे त्वरितम् उदय-प्रस्थतः प्रस्थिते’सौ यात्रानन्दीꣳ पठति मुदितः स्यन्दने गान्दिनेयः । तावत् तूर्णꣳ स्फुट खुर-पुटैः क्षौणि-पृष्टꣳ खनन्तो यावन् नामी हृदय भवतो घोटकाः स्फोटका स्युः ॥१६०॥

bhavan, yathā lalita-mādhave (3.7)- bhānor bimbe tvaritam udaya-prasthataḥ prasthite’sau yātrānandīṁ paṭhati muditaḥ syandane gāndineyaḥ | tāvat tūrṇaṁ sphuṭa khura-puṭaiḥ kṣauṇi-pṛṣṭaṁ khananto yāvan nāmī hṛdaya bhavato ghoṭakāḥ sphoṭakā syuḥ ||160||

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The presently occurring kind, as in Lalita-madhava 3.7: 'The sun's disk is hastening toward the mountain of sunrise; delighted, Akrura recites auspicious departure verses upon the chariot. Until those horses, digging the earth's surface with their clearly striking hooves, are stopped, burst at once, my heart, lest they become the bursting of your very life!'

15.161

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भूतो, यथा उद्धव-सन्देशे (८५)- कामꣳ दूरे सहचरि वरीवर्ति यत् कꣳस-वैरी न इदम् लोकोत्तरम् अपि विपद् दुर्दिनꣳ मे दुनोति । आशा-कीलो हृदि किल वृतः प्राण-रोधी तु यो मे सो’यꣳ पीडाꣳ निविड-वडवा-वह्नि-तीव्रस् तनोति ॥१६१॥

bhūto, yathā uddhava-sandeśe (85)- kāmaṁ dūre sahacari varīvarti yat kaṁsa-vairī na idam lokottaram api vipad durdinaṁ me dunoti | āśā-kīlo hṛdi kila vṛtaḥ prāṇa-rodhī tu yo me so’yaṁ pīḍāṁ niviḍa-vaḍavā-vahni-tīvras tanoti ||161||

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The past kind, as in Uddhava-sandesa 85: 'Friend, though Kamsa's enemy now dwells very far away, even that extraordinary calamity, that dark day, does not torment me so much. The stake of hope driven into my heart prevents my life from departing; it spreads an agony fierce as a dense submarine fire.'

15.162

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अत्र श्री-यदु-सिꣳहेन प्रेयसीभिर् अमुष्य च । प्रेषणꣳ क्रियते प्रेम्णा सन्देशस्य परस्परम् ॥१६२॥

atra śrī-yadu-siṁhena preyasībhir amuṣya ca | preṣaṇaṁ kriyate premṇā sandeśasya parasparam ||162||

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In this condition Sri Krsna, lion of the Yadus, and his beloveds lovingly send messages back and forth to one another.

15.163

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यथा उद्धव-सन्देशे (११५)- सोढव्यꣳ ते कथमपि बलाच्चक्षुषी मुद्रयित्वा तीव्रोत्तापम् हत-मनसिजोद्दाम-विक्रान्त-चक्रम् । द्वित्रैर् एव प्रिय-सखि दिनैः सेव्यताꣳ देवि शव्ये यास्यामि त्वत्-प्रणय-चटुल-भ्रू-युगाडम्बराणाम् ॥१६३॥

yathā uddhava-sandeśe (115)- soḍhavyaṁ te kathamapi balāccakṣuṣī mudrayitvā tīvrottāpam hata-manasijoddāma-vikrānta-cakram | dvitrair eva priya-sakhi dinaiḥ sevyatāṁ devi śavye yāsyāmi tvat-praṇaya-caṭula-bhrū-yugāḍambarāṇām ||163||

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As in Uddhava-sandesa 115: 'Somehow you must endure, forcibly closing your eyes against the fiercely burning wheel of the defeated Love-god's unrestrained advance. Dear friend, goddess, remain upon your bed for just two or three days. Then I shall come into the proud display of your two eyebrows, restless with love for me.'

15.164

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तथा पद्यावल्याम् (३७६)- कालिन्द्याः पुलिनꣳ प्रदोष-मरुतो रम्याः शशङ्काꣳशवः सन्तापꣳ न हरन्तु नाम नितराꣳ कुर्वन्ति कस्मात् पुनः । सन्दिष्टꣳ व्रज-योषिताम् इति हरेः सꣳशृण्वतो’न्तः-पुरे निःश्वासाः प्रसृता जयन्ति रमणी-सौभाग्य-गर्व-च्छिदः ॥१६४॥

tathā padyāvalyām (376)- kālindyāḥ pulinaṁ pradoṣa-maruto ramyāḥ śaśaṅkāṁśavaḥ santāpaṁ na harantu nāma nitarāṁ kurvanti kasmāt punaḥ | sandiṣṭaṁ vraja-yoṣitām iti hareḥ saṁśṛṇvato’ntaḥ-pure niḥśvāsāḥ prasṛtā jayanti ramaṇī-saubhāgya-garva-cchidaḥ ||164||

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And in Padyavali 376: 'Why should the banks of the Yamuna, the evening breezes, and the lovely moonbeams merely fail to remove our anguish? Why do they intensify it?' As Hari heard this message from the women of Vraja inside the palace, triumphant sighs streamed from him, shattering the proud good fortune of the palace women.

15.165

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अथ अबुद्धि-पूर्वः- पारतन्त्र्योद्भवो यस् तु प्रोक्तः सो’बुद्धि-पूर्वकः । दिव्यादिव्यादि-जनितꣳ पारतन्त्र्यम् अनेकधा ॥१६५॥

atha abuddhi-pūrvaḥ- pāratantryodbhavo yas tu proktaḥ so’buddhi-pūrvakaḥ | divyādivyādi-janitaṁ pāratantryam anekadhā ||165||

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Now, the unintentional kind. Separation arising from dependence upon another is called unintentional. Such dependence takes many forms, produced by divine, nondivine, and other causes.

15.166

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यथा ललित-माधवे (२.२७)- आनीतासि मया मनोरथ-शत-व्यग्रेण निर्बन्धतः पूर्णꣳ शारद-पुर्णिमा-परिमलैर् वृन्दाटवी-मण्डलम् । सद्यः सुन्दरि शङ्खचूड-कपट-प्राप्तोदयेनाधुना दैवेनाद्य विरोधिना कथम् इतस् त्वꣳ हन्त दूरीकृता ॥१६६॥

yathā lalita-mādhave (2.27)- ānītāsi mayā manoratha-śata-vyagreṇa nirbandhataḥ pūrṇaṁ śārada-purṇimā-parimalair vṛndāṭavī-maṇḍalam | sadyaḥ sundari śaṅkhacūḍa-kapaṭa-prāptodayenādhunā daivenādya virodhinā katham itas tvaṁ hanta dūrīkṛtā ||166||

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As in Lalita-madhava 2.27: 'Driven by hundreds of eager desires, I insistently brought you into the circle of Vrndavana, filled with the fragrance of the autumn full moon. Beautiful one, how has hostile fate now suddenly carried you far from here through the contrivance of Sankhacuda's appearance?'

15.167

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चिन्तात्र जागरोद्वेगौ तानवꣳ मलिनाङ्गता । प्रलापो व्याधिर् उन्मादो मोहो मृत्युर् दशा दश ॥१६७॥

cintātra jāgarodvegau tānavaṁ malināṅgatā | pralāpo vyādhir unmādo moho mṛtyur daśā daśa ||167||

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Its ten successive conditions are anxious thought, sleeplessness, agitation, emaciation, discoloration of the limbs, delirious speech, illness, madness, stupefaction, and death.

15.168

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तत्र चिन्ता, यथा हꣳसदूते (२)- यदा यातो गोपी-हृदय-मदनो नन्द-सदनान् मुकुन्दो गान्दिन्यास् तनयम् अनुविन्दन् मधु-पुरीम् । तदामान्क्षीच् चिन्ता-सरिति घन-घूर्णा-परिचयैर् अगाधायाꣳ बाधा-मय-पयसि राधा विरहिणी ॥१६८॥

tatra cintā, yathā haṁsadūte (2)- yadā yāto gopī-hṛdaya-madano nanda-sadanān mukundo gāndinyās tanayam anuvindan madhu-purīm | tadāmānkṣīc cintā-sariti ghana-ghūrṇā-paricayair agādhāyāṁ bādhā-maya-payasi rādhā virahiṇī ||168||

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Of these, anxious thought, as in Hamsaduta 2: When Mukunda, the Love-god of the gopis' hearts, left Nanda's home and followed Gandini's son to Mathura, the separated Radha plunged into the fathomless river of anxiety, its waters made of affliction and its current crowded with mighty whirlpools.

15.169

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अथ जागरः, यथा पद्यावल्याꣳ (३२२)- याः पश्यन्ति प्रियꣳ स्वप्ने धन्यास्ताः सखि योषितः । अस्माकꣳ तु गते कृष्णे गता निद्रापि वैरिणी ॥१६९॥

atha jāgaraḥ, yathā padyāvalyāṁ (322)- yāḥ paśyanti priyaṁ svapne dhanyāstāḥ sakhi yoṣitaḥ | asmākaṁ tu gate kṛṣṇe gatā nidrāpi vairiṇī ||169||

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Now, sleeplessness, as in Padyavali 322: 'Those women who see their beloved in dreams are fortunate, friend. But when Krsna left us, sleep too became our enemy and departed.'

15.170

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अथ उद्वेगः, यथा हꣳसदूते (१०४)- मनो मे हा कष्टꣳ ज्वलति किमहꣳ हन्त करवै न पारꣳ नावारꣳ किमपि कलयाम्य् अस्य जलधेः । इयꣳ वन्दे मूर्ध्ना सपदि तम् उपायꣳ कथय माꣳ परामृष्ये यस्माद् धृति-कणिकयापे क्षणिकया ॥१७०॥

atha udvegaḥ, yathā haṁsadūte (104)- mano me hā kaṣṭaṁ jvalati kimahaṁ hanta karavai na pāraṁ nāvāraṁ kimapi kalayāmy asya jaladheḥ | iyaṁ vande mūrdhnā sapadi tam upāyaṁ kathaya māṁ parāmṛṣye yasmād dhṛti-kaṇikayāpe kṣaṇikayā ||170||

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Now, agitation, as in Hamsaduta 104: 'Alas, my mind is burning painfully - what can I do? I perceive neither the near shore nor the far shore of this ocean. I bow my head to you: tell me at once some means by which I may grasp even a momentary particle of composure.'

15.171

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अथ तानवꣳ, यथा- उदञ्चद्-वक्त्राम्भोरुह-विकृतिर् अन्तः-कलुषिता सदाहाराभाव-ग्लपित-कुच-कोका यदुपते । विशुष्यन्ती राधा तव विरह-तापाद् अनुदिनꣳ निदाघे कुल्येव क्रशिम-परिपाकꣳ प्रथयति ॥१७१॥

atha tānavaṁ, yathā- udañcad-vaktrāmbhoruha-vikṛtir antaḥ-kaluṣitā sadāhārābhāva-glapita-kuca-kokā yadupate | viśuṣyantī rādhā tava viraha-tāpād anudinaṁ nidāghe kulyeva kraśima-paripākaṁ prathayati ||171||

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Now, emaciation: 'Lord of the Yadus, the rising lotus of her face has become distorted, her heart is troubled, and the cakravaka birds of her breasts have withered through her constant refusal of food. Drying day by day in the heat of separation from you, Radha displays the final extremity of thinness like a little irrigation channel in summer.'

15.172

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अथ मलिनाङ्गता- हिम-विसर-विशीर्णाम्भोज-तुल्यानन-श्रीः खर-मरुद्-अपरज्यद्-बन्धु-जीवोपमौष्ठी । अघहर शरद्-अर्कोत्तापितेन्दीवराक्षी तव विरह-विपत्ति-म्लापितासीद् विशाखा ॥१७२॥

atha malināṅgatā- hima-visara-viśīrṇāmbhoja-tulyānana-śrīḥ khara-marud-aparajyad-bandhu-jīvopamauṣṭhī | aghahara śarad-arkottāpitendīvarākṣī tava viraha-vipatti-mlāpitāsīd viśākhā ||172||

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Now, discoloration of the limbs: 'Destroyer of Agha, through the calamity of separation from you Visakha has withered away. The beauty of her face resembles a lotus ruined by spreading frost; her lips are like bandhujiva flowers defeated by a harsh wind; and her blue-lotus eyes are scorched by the autumn sun.'

15.173

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अथ प्रलापः, यथा ललित-माधवे (३.२५)- क्व नन्द-कुल-चन्द्रमाः क्व शिखि-चन्द्रकालङ्कृतिः क्व मन्द्र-मुरली-रवः क्व नु सुरेन्द्र-नील-द्युतिः क्व रास-रस-ताण्डवी क्व सखि जीव-रक्षौषधिर् निधिर् मम सुहृत्तमः क्व बत हन्त हा धिग्-विधिम् ॥१७३॥

atha pralāpaḥ, yathā lalita-mādhave (3.25)- kva nanda-kula-candramāḥ kva śikhi-candrakālaṅkṛtiḥ kva mandra-muralī-ravaḥ kva nu surendra-nīla-dyutiḥ kva rāsa-rasa-tāṇḍavī kva sakhi jīva-rakṣauṣadhir nidhir mama suhṛttamaḥ kva bata hanta hā dhig-vidhim ||173||

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Now, delirious speech, as in Lalita-madhava 3.25: 'Where is the moon of Nanda's family? Where is he adorned with the peacock feather's eye? Where is that deep flute-song? Where is the radiance of sapphire? Where is the dancer in the rasa festival? Friend, where is the medicine that protects my life, my treasure and dearest companion? Alas! Ah, shame upon fate!'

15.174

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अथ व्याधिः, यथा तत्रैव (३.२८)- उत्तापी पुट-पाकतो’पि गरल-ग्रामाद् अपि क्षोभणो दम्भोलेर् अपि दुःसहः कटुर् अलꣳ हृन्-मग्न-शूल्याद् अपि तीव्रः प्रौढ-विसूचिकानि-चयतो’प्य् उच्चैर् ममायꣳ बली मर्माण्य् अद्य भिनत्ति गोकुल-पतेर् विश्लेष-जन्मा ज्वरः ॥१७४॥

atha vyādhiḥ, yathā tatraiva (3.28)- uttāpī puṭa-pākato’pi garala-grāmād api kṣobhaṇo dambholer api duḥsahaḥ kaṭur alaṁ hṛn-magna-śūlyād api tīvraḥ prauḍha-visūcikāni-cayato’py uccair mamāyaṁ balī marmāṇy adya bhinatti gokula-pater viśleṣa-janmā jvaraḥ ||174||

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Now, illness, as in the same work, 3.28: 'Hotter than poison baked in a crucible, more convulsive than a whole host of venoms, more unbearable than a thunderbolt, and crueler than a spear sunk into the heart; fiercer even than an overwhelming mass of virulent cholera, this mighty fever born of separation from the lord of Gokula now rends my vital points.'

15.175

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अथ उन्मादः- भ्रमति भवन-गर्भे निर्निमित्तꣳ हसन्ती प्रथयति तव वार्ताꣳ चेतनाचेतनेषु । लुत्ःअति च भुवि राधा कम्पिताङ्गी मुरारे विषम-विरह-खेदोद्गारि-विभ्रान्त-चित्ता ॥१७५॥

atha unmādaḥ- bhramati bhavana-garbhe nirnimittaṁ hasantī prathayati tava vārtāṁ cetanācetaneṣu | lutḥati ca bhuvi rādhā kampitāṅgī murāre viṣama-viraha-khedodgāri-vibhrānta-cittā ||175||

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Now, madness: 'She wanders through the inner rooms without cause, laughing and telling news of you to living and lifeless things alike. Radha rolls upon the earth, her limbs trembling, enemy of Mura; her bewildered mind pours out the anguish of terrible separation.'

15.176

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यथा वा- अद्याकाण्डिकम् अट्टहास-पटलꣳ निर्माति घर्माम्बु-भाक् चीत्कारꣳ कुरुते चमत्कृति-परा सोत्कण्ठम् आकस्मिकम् । आक्रन्दꣳ वितनोति घर्घर-घनोद्घोषꣳ किलातर्कितꣳ राधा माधव-विप्रयोग-रभसाद् अन्येव तीव्राद् अभूत् ॥१७६॥

yathā vā- adyākāṇḍikam aṭṭahāsa-paṭalaṁ nirmāti gharmāmbu-bhāk cītkāraṁ kurute camatkṛti-parā sotkaṇṭham ākasmikam | ākrandaṁ vitanoti gharghara-ghanodghoṣaṁ kilātarkitaṁ rādhā mādhava-viprayoga-rabhasād anyeva tīvrād abhūt ||176||

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Or: 'Suddenly she releases peal after peal of loud laughter while drenched in perspiration. Then, overcome with astonishment, she unexpectedly gives an eager shriek. Without warning she extends a cry dense with hoarse thunder. Through the fierce onset of separation from Madhava, Radha has become as though an entirely different person.'

15.177

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अथ मोहः- निरुन्धे दैन्याब्धिꣳ हरति गुरु-चिन्ता परिभवꣳ विलुम्पत्य् उन्मादꣳ स्थगयति बलाद् बाष्प-लहरीम् । इदानीꣳ कꣳसारे कुवलय-दृशः केवलम् इदꣳ विधत्ते साचिव्यꣳ तव विरह-मूर्च्छा-सहचरी ॥१७७॥

atha mohaḥ- nirundhe dainyābdhiṁ harati guru-cintā paribhavaṁ vilumpaty unmādaṁ sthagayati balād bāṣpa-laharīm | idānīṁ kaṁsāre kuvalaya-dṛśaḥ kevalam idaṁ vidhatte sācivyaṁ tava viraha-mūrcchā-sahacarī ||177||

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Now, stupefaction: 'Enemy of Kamsa, this companion of the lotus-eyed girl's fainting in separation from you now performs a single service: it dams the ocean of her wretchedness, removes the humiliation of grave anxiety, plunders her madness, and forcibly stops the waves of her tears.'

15.178

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अथ मृत्युः, यथा हꣳसदूते (९६)- अये रास-क्रीडा-रसिक मम सख्याꣳ नव-नवा पुरा बद्धा येन प्रणय-लहरी हन्त गहना । स चेन् मुक्तापेक्षस् त्वम् अपि धिग् इमाꣳ तुल-शकलꣳ यद् एतस्या नासानिहितम् इदम् अद्यापि चलति ॥१७८॥

atha mṛtyuḥ, yathā haṁsadūte (96)- aye rāsa-krīḍā-rasika mama sakhyāṁ nava-navā purā baddhā yena praṇaya-laharī hanta gahanā | sa cen muktāpekṣas tvam api dhig imāṁ tula-śakalaṁ yad etasyā nāsānihitam idam adyāpi calati ||178||

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Now, death, as in Hamsaduta 96: 'O connoisseur of the rasa dance! Once you bound my friend with ever-fresh, profound waves of love. If you too have now abandoned all concern for her, then shame upon this tiny wisp of cotton placed beneath her nose, for it still moves today.'

15.179

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प्रवास-विप्रलम्भे’स्मिन् दशास् तास् ता हरेर् अपि । अत्रोपलक्षणायैकम् उदाहरणम् ईर्यते ॥१७९॥

pravāsa-vipralambhe’smin daśās tās tā harer api | atropalakṣaṇāyaikam udāharaṇam īryate ||179||

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In this love-in-separation by distance, Hari also undergoes each of those states. One example is offered here merely to indicate them all.

15.180

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यथा- क्रीडा-रत्न-गृहे विडम्बित-पयः-फेनावली-मार्दवे तल्पे नेच्छति कल्प-शाखि-चमरी-रम्ये’पि राज्ञाꣳ सुताः । किन्तु द्वारवती-पतिर् व्रज-गिरि-द्रोणी-विलान्तः-शिला- पर्यङ्कोपरि राधिका-रति-कलाꣳ ध्यायन् मुहुः क्लाम्यति ॥१८०॥

yathā- krīḍā-ratna-gṛhe viḍambita-payaḥ-phenāvalī-mārdave talpe necchati kalpa-śākhi-camarī-ramye’pi rājñāṁ sutāḥ | kintu dvāravatī-patir vraja-giri-droṇī-vilāntaḥ-śilā- paryaṅkopari rādhikā-rati-kalāṁ dhyāyan muhuḥ klāmyati ||180||

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For example: The daughters of kings cannot persuade the lord of Dvaraka to rest upon a bed in the jeweled pleasure-house, though it is soft enough to mock rows of milk foam and delightful with wish-fulfilling-tree yak-tail fans. Instead he repeatedly languishes, meditating upon the arts of love with Radhika atop a stone couch inside a cave in the valley of Govardhana.

15.181

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प्रोक्तानाꣳ प्रेम-भेदानाꣳ विविधत्वाद् दशा अपि । विविधाः स्युर् इहेत्य् एता भूम-भीत्या न कीर्तिताः ॥१८१॥

proktānāṁ prema-bhedānāṁ vividhatvād daśā api | vividhāḥ syur ihety etā bhūma-bhītyā na kīrtitāḥ ||181||

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Because the varieties of love already described are so diverse, these conditions too take many forms. They have not all been recounted here for fear of excessive length.

15.182

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एतास् तु प्रेम-भेदानाम् अनुभावतया दशाः । साधारण्यः समस्तानाꣳ प्रायशः सम्भवन्त्य् अपि ॥१८२॥

etās tu prema-bhedānām anubhāvatayā daśāḥ | sādhāraṇyaḥ samastānāṁ prāyaśaḥ sambhavanty api ||182||

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As expressions of the varieties of love, these conditions can generally arise in every one of them.

15.183

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किन्त्व् अत्रैवाधिरूढस्य मोहनत्वम् उपेयुषः । असाधारण-रूपास् तु तत्-प्रसङ्गे पुरोदिताः ॥१८३॥

kintv atraivādhirūḍhasya mohanatvam upeyuṣaḥ | asādhāraṇa-rūpās tu tat-prasaṅge puroditāḥ ||183||

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Yet their extraordinary forms belong specifically to love mounted to the adhirudha stage and attaining the condition of mohana; those forms were explained earlier in that context.

15.184

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विप्रलम्भꣳ परꣳ केचित् करुणाभिधम् उचिरे । स प्रवास-विशेषत्वान् नैवात्र पृथग् ईरितः ॥१८४॥

vipralambhaṁ paraṁ kecit karuṇābhidham ucire | sa pravāsa-viśeṣatvān naivātra pṛthag īritaḥ ||184||

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Some authorities speak of a final kind of love-in-separation named compassion. Since it is a particular form of separation by distance, it has not been presented separately here.

15.185

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इति विप्रलम्भ-भेदाः अथ सꣳयोग-वियोग-स्थितिः हरेर् लीला-विशेषस्य प्रकटस्यानुसारतः । वर्णिता विरहावस्था गोष्ठ-वाम-भ्रुवाम् असौ ॥१८५॥

iti vipralambha-bhedāḥ atha saṁyoga-viyoga-sthitiḥ harer līlā-viśeṣasya prakaṭasyānusārataḥ | varṇitā virahāvasthā goṣṭha-vāma-bhruvām asau ||185||

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Thus end the varieties of love-in-separation. Now, the relation between union and separation. The condition of separation just described for the contrary-browed women of Vraja follows the particular manifest pastimes of Hari.

15.186

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वृन्दारण्ये विहरता सदा रासादि-विभ्रमैः । हरिणा व्रज-देवीनाꣳ विरहो’स्ति न कर्हिचित् ॥१८६॥

vṛndāraṇye viharatā sadā rāsādi-vibhramaiḥ | hariṇā vraja-devīnāṁ viraho’sti na karhicit ||186||

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Yet for the goddesses of Vraja there is never any separation from Hari, who eternally sports in Vrndavana through the rasa dance and other wondrous pastimes.

15.187

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तथा च पाद्मे पाताल-खण्डे मथुरा-माहात्म्ये- गो-गोप-गोपिका-सङ्गे यत्र क्रीडति कꣳसहा ॥१८७॥ इति ।

tathā ca pādme pātāla-khaṇḍe mathurā-māhātmye- go-gopa-gopikā-saṅge yatra krīḍati kaṁsahā ||187|| iti |

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Thus the Mathura-mahatmya of the Patala-khanda of the Padma Purana says: 'There, the destroyer of Kamsa sports in the company of cows, cowherd men, and cowherd women.'

15.188

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इति सꣳयोग-वियोग-स्थितिः ॥ अथ सम्भोगः दर्शनालिङ्गनादीनाꣳ आनुकूल्यान् निषेवया । यूनोर् उल्लासम् आरोहन् भावः सम्भोग उच्यते ॥१८८॥

iti saṁyoga-viyoga-sthitiḥ || atha sambhogaḥ darśanāliṅganādīnāṁ ānukūlyān niṣevayā | yūnor ullāsam ārohan bhāvaḥ sambhoga ucyate ||188||

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Thus ends the relation between union and separation. Now, union. The state that mounts to jubilation in the young couple through their favorable enjoyment of seeing, embracing, and similar exchanges is called union.

15.189

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मनीषिभिर् अयꣳ मुखो गौणश् चेति द्विधोदितः ॥१८९॥

manīṣibhir ayaṁ mukho gauṇaś ceti dvidhoditaḥ ||189||

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The wise describe union as twofold: primary and secondary.

15.190

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तत्र मुख्यः- मुख्यो जाग्रद्-अवस्थायाꣳ सम्भोगः स चतुर्विधः ॥१९०॥

tatra mukhyaḥ- mukhyo jāgrad-avasthāyāṁ sambhogaḥ sa caturvidhaḥ ||190||

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Of these, the primary kind. Primary union occurs in the waking state and is fourfold.

15.191

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तान् पूर्व-रागतो मानात् प्रवास-द्वयतः क्रमात् । जातान् सꣳक्षिप्त-सङ्कीर्ण-सम्पन्न-र्द्धिमतो विदुः ॥१९१॥

tān pūrva-rāgato mānāt pravāsa-dvayataḥ kramāt | jātān saṁkṣipta-saṅkīrṇa-sampanna-rddhimato viduḥ ||191||

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The learned know the four as brief, mingled, fulfilled, and fully opulent, arising respectively after preliminary love, loving resentment, each of the two kinds of separation by distance.

15.192

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तत्र सङ्क्षिप्तः- युवानौ यत्र सꣳक्षिप्तान् साध्वस-व्रीडितादिभिः । उपचारान् निषेवेते स सꣳक्षिप्त इतीरितः ॥१९२॥

tatra saṅkṣiptaḥ- yuvānau yatra saṁkṣiptān sādhvasa-vrīḍitādibhiḥ | upacārān niṣevete sa saṁkṣipta itīritaḥ ||192||

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Of these, brief union. When the young couple enjoy exchanges curtailed by nervousness, bashfulness, and the like, it is called brief union.

15.193

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तत्र नायकेन कृतः, यथा सप्तशत्याम्- लीलाहितुलिअ-सेलो रक्ख{उ} वो राहिआ-त्थण-प्फꣳसे । हरिणो पढम-समागम-सज्झस-बेबेल्लिओ हत्थो ॥१९३॥

tatra nāyakena kṛtaḥ, yathā saptaśatyām- līlāhitulia-selo rakkha{u} vo rāhiā-tthaṇa-pphaṁse | hariṇo paḍhama-samāgama-sajjhasa-bebellio hattho ||193||

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In that condition, an example from the hero's side, as in Saptasati: May Hari's hand protect you - that hand which playfully lifted the mountain, yet trembled with the nervousness of first union when it touched Radhika's breast.

15.194

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[लीलाभितुलित-शैलो रक्षतु वो राधिका-स्तन-स्पर्शे । हरेः प्रथम-समागम-साध्वस-वेवेल्लितो हस्तः ॥] नायिकायाः, यथा- चुम्बे पटावृत-मुखी नव-सङ्गमे’भू- दालिङ्गने कुटिलिताङ्ग-लता तदासीत् । अव्यक्त-वाग् अजनि केलि-कथासु राधा मोदꣳ तथापि विदधे मधुसूदनस्य ॥१९४॥

[līlābhitulita-śailo rakṣatu vo rādhikā-stana-sparśe | hareḥ prathama-samāgama-sādhvasa-vevellito hastaḥ ||] nāyikāyāḥ, yathā- cumbe paṭāvṛta-mukhī nava-saṅgame’bhū- dāliṅgane kuṭilitāṅga-latā tadāsīt | avyakta-vāg ajani keli-kathāsu rādhā modaṁ tathāpi vidadhe madhusūdanasya ||194||

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From the heroine's side: During their first union Radha covered her face with her garment when he kissed her, curved the vine of her body away when he embraced her, and became speechless when amorous conversation began. Even so, she brought delight to Madhusudana.

15.195

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अथ सङ्कीर्णः- यत्र सङ्कीर्यमाणाः स्युर् व्यलीक-स्मरणादिभिः । उपचाराः स सङ्कीर्णः किञ्चित् तप्तेक्षु-पेशलः ॥१९५॥

atha saṅkīrṇaḥ- yatra saṅkīryamāṇāḥ syur vyalīka-smaraṇādibhiḥ | upacārāḥ sa saṅkīrṇaḥ kiñcit taptekṣu-peśalaḥ ||195||

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Now, mingled union. When loving exchanges are intermingled with the memory of an offense and similar feelings, the union is called mingled; it is somewhat delightful like heated sugarcane.

15.196

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यथा- सासूय-जल्पित-सुधानि स-मत्सराणि मानोपराम-रमणीय-दृग्-इङ्गितानि । कꣳस-द्विषः स्फुरद्-अमन्द-मुखान्य् अनङ्ग- विक्रीडितानि सह राधिकया जयन्ति ॥१९६॥

yathā- sāsūya-jalpita-sudhāni sa-matsarāṇi mānoparāma-ramaṇīya-dṛg-iṅgitāni | kaṁsa-dviṣaḥ sphurad-amanda-mukhāny anaṅga- vikrīḍitāni saha rādhikayā jayanti ||196||

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For example: Victorious are the love-sports of Kamsa's enemy with Radhika - their nectarous speech tinged with indignation and jealousy, their lovely sidelong glances at the ending of resentment, and their faces shining with great intensity.

15.197

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यथा वा- वक्त्रꣳ किञ्चिद् अवाञ्चितꣳ विवृणुते नातिप्रसादोदयꣳ दृष्टिर् भुग्न-तटा व्यनक्ति शनकैर् ईर्ष्यावशेष-च्छटाम् । राधायाः सखि सूचयत्य् अविशदा वाग् अप्य् असूयाकलाꣳ मानन्तꣳ ब्रुवती तथापि मधुरा कृष्णꣳ धिनोत्य् आकृतिः ॥१९७॥

yathā vā- vaktraṁ kiñcid avāñcitaṁ vivṛṇute nātiprasādodayaṁ dṛṣṭir bhugna-taṭā vyanakti śanakair īrṣyāvaśeṣa-cchaṭām | rādhāyāḥ sakhi sūcayaty aviśadā vāg apy asūyākalāṁ mānantaṁ bruvatī tathāpi madhurā kṛṣṇaṁ dhinoty ākṛtiḥ ||197||

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Or: 'Friend, Radha's slightly lowered face reveals that full favor has not yet arisen. Her curved sidelong glance slowly displays a lingering flash of jealousy, and her indistinct speech hints at a trace of indignation. Yet even while announcing the end of resentment, her sweet form delights Krsna.'

15.198

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अथ सम्पन्नः- प्रवासात् सङ्गते कान्ते भोगः सम्पन्न ईरितः । द्विधा स्याद् आगतिः प्रादुर्भावश् चेति स सङ्गमः ॥१९८॥

atha sampannaḥ- pravāsāt saṅgate kānte bhogaḥ sampanna īritaḥ | dvidhā syād āgatiḥ prādurbhāvaś ceti sa saṅgamaḥ ||198||

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Now, fulfilled union. Enjoyment with the beloved when he returns after separation by distance is called fulfilled union. Their meeting is twofold: arrival and sudden manifestation.

15.199

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तत्र आगतिः- लौकिक-व्यवहारेण स्याद् आगमनम् आगतिः ॥१९९॥

tatra āgatiḥ- laukika-vyavahāreṇa syād āgamanam āgatiḥ ||199||

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Of these, arrival. Coming in accordance with ordinary worldly circumstance is called arrival.

15.200

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यथा उद्धव-सन्देशे (४०)- मा मन्दाक्षꣳ कुरु गुरु-जनाद् देहलीꣳ गेह-मध्याद् एहि क्लान्ता दिवसम् अखिलम् हन्त विश्लेषतो’सि । एष स्मेरो मिलति मृदुले वल्लवी-चित्त-हारी हारी गुञ्जावलिभिर् अलिभिर् लीढ-गन्धो मुकुन्दः ॥२००॥

yathā uddhava-sandeśe (40)- mā mandākṣaṁ kuru guru-janād dehalīṁ geha-madhyād ehi klāntā divasam akhilam hanta viśleṣato’si | eṣa smero milati mṛdule vallavī-citta-hārī hārī guñjāvalibhir alibhir līḍha-gandho mukundaḥ ||200||

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As in Uddhava-sandesa 40: 'Do not shrink from your elders. Come from inside the house to the threshold! Alas, you have been exhausted by separation for the entire day. Gentle one, here is smiling Mukunda, thief of the cowherd women's hearts, coming to meet you, adorned with strings of gunja berries whose fragrance is sipped by bees.'

15.201

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अथ प्रादुर्भावः- प्रेष्ठानाꣳ प्रेम-सꣳरम्भ-विह्वलानाꣳ पुरो हरिः । आविर्भवत्य् अकस्माद् यत् प्रादुर्भावः स उच्यते ॥२०१॥

atha prādurbhāvaḥ- preṣṭhānāṁ prema-saṁrambha-vihvalānāṁ puro hariḥ | āvirbhavaty akasmād yat prādurbhāvaḥ sa ucyate ||201||

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Now, sudden manifestation. When Hari unexpectedly appears before his beloveds as they reel in the passionate intensity of love, that is called sudden manifestation.

15.202

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यथा श्री-दशमे (१०.३२.२)- तासाम् आविरभूच् छौरिः स्मयमान-मुखाम्बुजः । पीताम्बर-धरः स्रग्वी साक्षान् मन्मथ-मन्मथः ॥२०२॥

yathā śrī-daśame (10.32.2)- tāsām āvirabhūc chauriḥ smayamāna-mukhāmbujaḥ | pītāmbara-dharaḥ sragvī sākṣān manmatha-manmathaḥ ||202||

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As in Srimad-Bhagavatam 10.32.2: Then Sauri appeared among them, his lotus face smiling, wearing yellow cloth and a garland - the very enchanter of the Love-god.

15.203

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यथा वा हꣳसदूते (१०७)- अयि स्वप्नो दूरे विरमतु समक्षꣳ शृणु हठाद् अविश्वस्ता मा भूर् इह सखि मनो-विभ्रम-धिया । वयस्यस् ते गोवर्धन-विपिनम् आसाद्य कुतुकाद् अकाण्डे यद् भूयः स्मर-कलह-पाण्डित्यम् अतनोत् ॥२०३॥

yathā vā haṁsadūte (107)- ayi svapno dūre viramatu samakṣaṁ śṛṇu haṭhād aviśvastā mā bhūr iha sakhi mano-vibhrama-dhiyā | vayasyas te govardhana-vipinam āsādya kutukād akāṇḍe yad bhūyaḥ smara-kalaha-pāṇḍityam atanot ||203||

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Or, as in Hamsaduta 107: 'Friend, let talk of dreams cease! Listen - he stands directly before you. Do not become distrustful by imagining it a delusion of the mind. Reaching the forest of Govardhana in delight, your companion has unexpectedly displayed once more his mastery in love's battles.'

15.204

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रूढाख्य-भाव-जातो’यꣳ सम्भोगो वैप्रलम्भिकः । निर्भरानन्द-पुराणाꣳ परमावधिर् इष्यते ॥२०४॥

rūḍhākhya-bhāva-jāto’yaṁ sambhogo vaipralambhikaḥ | nirbharānanda-purāṇāṁ paramāvadhir iṣyate ||204||

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This union, born from the stage of love called rudha and arising after separation, is held to be the supreme limit for those filled with overwhelming bliss.

15.205

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द्विगुणा विरहार्तिः स्यात् स्फुरणे वेणु-रागजे । प्रादुर्भावे भवत्य् अत्र सर्वाभीष्ट-सुखोत्सवः ॥२०५॥

dviguṇā virahārtiḥ syāt sphuraṇe veṇu-rāgaje | prādurbhāve bhavaty atra sarvābhīṣṭa-sukhotsavaḥ ||205||

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When a vision produced by the melody of the flute appears, the pain of separation doubles. But at this sudden manifestation, a festival of every desired happiness arises.

15.206

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अथ समृद्धिमान्- दुर्लभालोकयोर् यूनोः पारतन्त्र्याद् वियुक्तयोः । उपभोगातिरेको यः कीर्त्यते स समृद्धिमान् ॥२०६॥

atha samṛddhimān- durlabhālokayor yūnoḥ pāratantryād viyuktayoḥ | upabhogātireko yaḥ kīrtyate sa samṛddhimān ||206||

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Now, fully opulent union. When two young lovers, rarely able to see one another and separated by dependence upon others, attain an extraordinary abundance of enjoyment, that is called fully opulent union.

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यथा ललित-माधवे (७.१८)- दग्धꣳ हन्त दधानया वपुर् इदꣳ यस्यावलोकाशया सोढा मर्म-विपाटने पटुर् इयꣳ पीडातिवृष्टिर् मया । कालिन्दीय-तटी-कुटीर-कुहर-क्रीडाभिसार-व्रती सो’यꣳ जीवित-बन्धुर् इन्दु-वदने भूयः समालिङ्गितः ॥२०७॥

yathā lalita-mādhave (7.18)- dagdhaṁ hanta dadhānayā vapur idaṁ yasyāvalokāśayā soḍhā marma-vipāṭane paṭur iyaṁ pīḍātivṛṣṭir mayā | kālindīya-taṭī-kuṭīra-kuhara-krīḍābhisāra-vratī so’yaṁ jīvita-bandhur indu-vadane bhūyaḥ samāliṅgitaḥ ||207||

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As in Lalita-madhava 7.18: 'Hoping to behold him, I bore this burning body and endured a violent rain of agony able to split my vital points. Moon-faced one, now that very friend of my life, vowed to secret play in cottages along the Yamuna's bank, is embraced by me once again.'

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यथा वा (८.१०)- तवात्र परिमृग्यता किम् अपि लक्ष्म साक्षाद् इयꣳ मया त्वम् उपसादिता निखिल-लोक-लक्ष्मीर् असि । यथा जगति चञ्चता चणक-मुष्टि-सम्पत्तये जनेन पतिता पुरः कनक-वृष्टिर् आसाद्यते ॥२०८॥

yathā vā (8.10)- tavātra parimṛgyatā kim api lakṣma sākṣād iyaṁ mayā tvam upasāditā nikhila-loka-lakṣmīr asi | yathā jagati cañcatā caṇaka-muṣṭi-sampattaye janena patitā puraḥ kanaka-vṛṣṭir āsādyate ||208||

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Or, 8.10: 'Searching here for some mere sign of you, I have obtained you in person, the beauty of all the worlds. It is as though a traveler seeking the wealth of a handful of chickpeas encountered a shower of gold falling before him.'

15.209

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इति मधुर-रस-परिपाक-विवेकः । अथ गौण-सम्भोगः छन्न-प्रकाश-भेदेन कैश्चिद् एषाꣳ द्विरूपता । इष्टाप्य् अत्र न हि प्रोक्ता नात्युल्लासकरी यतः ॥२०९॥

iti madhura-rasa-paripāka-vivekaḥ | atha gauṇa-sambhogaḥ channa-prakāśa-bhedena kaiścid eṣāṁ dvirūpatā | iṣṭāpy atra na hi proktā nātyullāsakarī yataḥ ||209||

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Thus ends the discernment of the full ripening of madhura-rasa. Now, secondary union. Some distinguish each of these unions as concealed or manifest. Though accepted, that division is not set forth here, for it does not produce very great jubilation.

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अथ गौणः- स्वप्ने प्राप्ति-विशेषो’स्य हरेर् गौण इतीर्यते । स्वप्नो द्विधात्र सामान्य-विशेषत्वेन कीर्तितः ॥२१०॥

atha gauṇaḥ- svapne prāpti-viśeṣo’sya harer gauṇa itīryate | svapno dvidhātra sāmānya-viśeṣatvena kīrtitaḥ ||210||

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Now, the secondary kind. A special attainment of Hari in a dream is called secondary union. Dream here is said to be twofold: ordinary and extraordinary.

15.211

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सामान्यः स तु यः पूर्वꣳ कथितो व्यभिचारिषु । विशेषः खलु जागर्या निर्विशेषो महाद्भुतः ॥२११॥

sāmānyaḥ sa tu yaḥ pūrvaṁ kathito vyabhicāriṣu | viśeṣaḥ khalu jāgaryā nirviśeṣo mahādbhutaḥ ||211||

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The ordinary dream is the one previously described among the transitory emotions. The extraordinary kind is a great wonder, indistinguishable from wakefulness.

15.212

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भावौत्कण्ठ्ये-मयो ह्य् एष चतुर्धा पूर्ववन् मतः ॥२१२॥

bhāvautkaṇṭhye-mayo hy eṣa caturdhā pūrvavan mataḥ ||212||

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Made entirely of intense eagerness in love, this extraordinary dream is considered fourfold, like the primary unions described before.

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तत्र स्वप्ने सङ्क्षिप्तो, यथा- विहारꣳ कुर्वाणस् तरणि-तनया-तीर-विपिने नवाम्भोद-श्रेणी-मधुरिम-विडम्बि-द्युति-भरः । विदग्धानाꣳ चूडामणिर् अनुदिनꣳ चुम्बति मुखꣳ मम स्वप्ने को’पि प्रिय-सखि बलीयान् नव-युवा ॥२१३॥

tatra svapne saṅkṣipto, yathā- vihāraṁ kurvāṇas taraṇi-tanayā-tīra-vipine navāmbhoda-śreṇī-madhurima-viḍambi-dyuti-bharaḥ | vidagdhānāṁ cūḍāmaṇir anudinaṁ cumbati mukhaṁ mama svapne ko’pi priya-sakhi balīyān nava-yuvā ||213||

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Of these, brief union in a dream: 'Dear friend, every day in my dream some powerful young lover kisses my face while sporting in the forest on the Yamuna's bank. The flood of his radiance mocks the sweetness of rows of fresh rain clouds, and he is the crown jewel of the clever.'

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अथ स्वप्ने सङ्कीर्णो, यथा- सखि क्रुद्धा मा भूर् लघुर् अपि न दोषः सुमुखि मे न मानाग्नि-ज्वालाम् अशमयम् अहꣳ ताम् असमये । स धूर्तस् ते स्वप्ने रस-वृष्टिꣳ मयि तथा यतो विस्तीर्णापि स्वयम् इयम् अयासीद् उपशमम् ॥२१४॥

atha svapne saṅkīrṇo, yathā- sakhi kruddhā mā bhūr laghur api na doṣaḥ sumukhi me na mānāgni-jvālām aśamayam ahaṁ tām asamaye | sa dhūrtas te svapne rasa-vṛṣṭiṁ mayi tathā yato vistīrṇāpi svayam iyam ayāsīd upaśamam ||214||

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Now, mingled union in a dream: 'Friend, do not be angry; beautiful one, I am not even slightly at fault. I did not quench the flames of your fire of resentment at the wrong time. That rogue showered such rasa upon me in your dream that the fire, though widely spread, subsided by itself.'

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अथ स्वप्ने सम्पन्नः, यथा हꣳसदूते (१०५)- प्रयातो माꣳ हित्वा यदि कठिन-चूडामणिर् असौ पर्यातु स्वच्छन्दꣳ मम समय-धर्मः किल गतिः । इदꣳ सोढुꣳ का वा प्रभवति यतः स्वप्न-कपटाद् इहायातो वृन्दावन-भुवि कलान् माꣳ रमयति ॥२१५॥

atha svapne sampannaḥ, yathā haṁsadūte (105)- prayāto māṁ hitvā yadi kaṭhina-cūḍāmaṇir asau paryātu svacchandaṁ mama samaya-dharmaḥ kila gatiḥ | idaṁ soḍhuṁ kā vā prabhavati yataḥ svapna-kapaṭād ihāyāto vṛndāvana-bhuvi kalān māṁ ramayati ||215||

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Now, fulfilled union in a dream, as in Hamsaduta 105: 'If that crown jewel of hard-hearted men has abandoned me and gone away, let him roam as he pleases; fidelity to my appointed vow is surely my path. Yet what woman could bear this - that, by the deception of a dream, he comes here to the land of Vrndavana and artfully delights me?'

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अथ स्वाप्न-समृद्धिमान्, यथा ललित-माधवे (७.११)- चिराद् अद्य स्वप्ने मम विविध-यत्नाद् उपगते प्रपेदे गोविन्दः सखि नयनयोर् अक्षणभुवम् । गृहीत्वा हा हन्त त्वरितम् अथ तस्मिन्न् अपि रथꣳ कथꣳ प्रत्यासन्नः स खलु पुरुषो राज-पुरुषः ॥२१६॥

atha svāpna-samṛddhimān, yathā lalita-mādhave (7.11)- cirād adya svapne mama vividha-yatnād upagate prapede govindaḥ sakhi nayanayor akṣaṇabhuvam | gṛhītvā hā hanta tvaritam atha tasminn api rathaṁ kathaṁ pratyāsannaḥ sa khalu puruṣo rāja-puruṣaḥ ||216||

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Now, fully opulent union in a dream, as in Lalita-madhava 7.11: 'Friend, after a long time Govinda came to me in a dream today through my many efforts and entered the festival of my eyes. Alas! Then, even as I seized him, how did that royal officer suddenly draw near with a chariot?'

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तुल्य-स्वरूप एवायꣳ प्रोद्यन् यूनोर् द्वयोर् अपि । ऊषा-निरुद्धयोर् यद्वत् क्वचित् स्वप्नो’प्य् अबाधितः ॥२१७॥

tulya-svarūpa evāyaṁ prodyan yūnor dvayor api | ūṣā-niruddhayor yadvat kvacit svapno’py abādhitaḥ ||217||

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This dream arises in an identical form for both lovers, as in the case of Usa and Aniruddha; thus in some instances the dream is mutually experienced and unobstructed.

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अतएव हि सिद्धानाꣳ स्वप्ने’पि परमाद्भुते । प्राप्तानि मण्डनादीनि दृश्यन्ते जागरे’पि च ॥२१८॥

ataeva hi siddhānāṁ svapne’pi paramādbhute | prāptāni maṇḍanādīni dṛśyante jāgare’pi ca ||218||

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For that very reason, ornaments and other things obtained by perfected lovers in a supremely wondrous dream are seen upon waking as well.

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व्यतीत्य तुर्याम् अपि सꣳश्रितानाꣳ ताꣳ पञ्चमीꣳ प्रेम-मयीम् अवस्थाम् । न सम्भवत्य् एव हरि-प्रियाणाꣳ स्वप्नो रजो-वृत्ति-विजृम्भितो यः ॥२१९॥

vyatītya turyām api saṁśritānāṁ tāṁ pañcamīṁ prema-mayīm avasthām | na sambhavaty eva hari-priyāṇāṁ svapno rajo-vṛtti-vijṛmbhito yaḥ ||219||

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Hari's beloveds transcend even the fourth state and take shelter of a fifth condition made entirely of love. For them there can be no dream arising from the expansion of the material mode of passion.

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इत्य् एष हरि-भावस्य विलासः को’पि पेशल । चित्र-स्वप्नम् इवातन्वन् कृष्णः सङ्गमयत्य् अलम् ॥२२०॥

ity eṣa hari-bhāvasya vilāsaḥ ko’pi peśala | citra-svapnam ivātanvan kṛṣṇaḥ saṅgamayaty alam ||220||

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This is some exquisitely graceful play of loving emotion for Hari: unfolding something like a marvelous dream, Krsna brings about their complete meeting.

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अथैतेषु निरूप्यन्ते तद्-विशेषाः सुपेशलाः । ये’नुभाव-दशाम् अस्याः प्राप्नुवन्ति रतेः स्फुटम् ॥२२१॥

athaiteṣu nirūpyante tad-viśeṣāḥ supeśalāḥ | ye’nubhāva-daśām asyāḥ prāpnuvanti rateḥ sphuṭam ||221||

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Now the especially graceful varieties within these unions will be described - those that clearly attain the status of expressions of this love.

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ते तु सन्दर्शनꣳ जल्पः स्पर्शनꣳ वर्त्म-रोधनम् । रास-वृन्दावन्-क्रीडा-यमुनाद्य्-अम्बु-केलयः ॥२२२॥

te tu sandarśanaṁ jalpaḥ sparśanaṁ vartma-rodhanam | rāsa-vṛndāvan-krīḍā-yamunādy-ambu-kelayaḥ ||222||

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They are seeing one another, conversation, touching, blocking the path, the rasa dance, play in Vrndavana, water-sports in the Yamuna and elsewhere;

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नौ-खेला लीलया चौर्यꣳ घट्टः कुञ्जादि-लीनता । मधु-पानꣳ वधू-वेश-धृतिः कपट-सुप्तता ॥२२३॥

nau-khelā līlayā cauryaṁ ghaṭṭaḥ kuñjādi-līnatā | madhu-pānaṁ vadhū-veśa-dhṛtiḥ kapaṭa-suptatā ||223||

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boat play, playful theft, taxation at the landing place, hiding in bowers and other places, drinking honey wine, wearing a bride's dress, feigned sleep;

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द्यूत-क्रीडा पटाकृष्टिश् चुम्बाश्लेषौ नखार्पणम् । बिम्बाधर-सुधा-पानः सम्प्रयोगादयो मताः ॥२२४॥

dyūta-krīḍā paṭākṛṣṭiś cumbāśleṣau nakhārpaṇam | bimbādhara-sudhā-pānaḥ samprayogādayo matāḥ ||224||

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dice play, tugging at garments, kissing, embracing, marking with the nails, drinking nectar from bimba-red lips, full erotic union, and other exchanges.

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तत्र सन्दर्शनꣳ, यथा ललित-माधवे (२.२६) चलाक्षि-गुरु-लोकतः स्फुरति तावद् अन्तर्भयꣳ कुल-स्थितिर् अलꣳ तु मे मनसि तावद् उन्मीलति । चलन्-मकर-कुण्डल-स्फुरित-फुल्ल-गण्ड-स्थलꣳ न यावद् अपरोक्षताम् इदम् अपैति वक्त्राम्बुजम् ॥२२५॥

tatra sandarśanaṁ, yathā lalita-mādhave (2.26) calākṣi-guru-lokataḥ sphurati tāvad antarbhayaṁ kula-sthitir alaṁ tu me manasi tāvad unmīlati | calan-makara-kuṇḍala-sphurita-phulla-gaṇḍa-sthalaṁ na yāvad aparokṣatām idam apaiti vaktrāmbujam ||225||

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Of these, seeing one another, as in Lalita-madhava 2.26: 'Restless-eyed one, fear of revered elders rises within me, and the dignity of my family position fully awakens in my mind - but only until this lotus face, its blossoming cheeks shining beneath swinging shark-shaped earrings, ceases to stand directly before my eyes.'

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अथ जल्पः- जल्पः परस्परꣳ गोष्ठी वितथोक्तिश् च कथ्यते ॥२२६॥

atha jalpaḥ- jalpaḥ parasparaṁ goṣṭhī vitathoktiś ca kathyate ||226||

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Now, conversation. Conversation is said to be mutual dialogue or deceptive speech.

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अत्र परस्परः गोष्ठी, यथा दान-केलि-कौमुद्याम् (४२-४३) धर्षणे नकुल-स्त्रीणाꣳ भुजङ्गेशः क्षमः कथम् । यद् एता दशनैर् एष दशन् नाप्नोति मङ्गलम् ॥२२७॥

atra parasparaḥ goṣṭhī, yathā dāna-keli-kaumudyām (42-43) dharṣaṇe nakula-strīṇāṁ bhujaṅgeśaḥ kṣamaḥ katham | yad etā daśanair eṣa daśan nāpnoti maṅgalam ||227||

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Here, mutual dialogue, as in Dana-keli-kaumudi 42-43: 'How can the lord of serpents be fit to assault the females of the mongoose? If this serpent bites them with his teeth, he will gain no good fortune.'

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अप्रौढ-द्विज-राज-राजद्-अलिका लब्धा विभूतिꣳ रुचाꣳ नव्याम् आत्मनि कृष्ण-वर्त्म-विलसद्-दृष्टिर् विशाखाञ्चिता । कन्दर्पस्य विदग्धताꣳ विदधति नेत्राञ्चलस्य त्विषा त्वꣳ राधे शिव-मूर्तिर् इत्य् उरसि माꣳ भोगीन्द्रम् अङ्गीकुरु ॥२२८॥

aprauḍha-dvija-rāja-rājad-alikā labdhā vibhūtiṁ rucāṁ navyām ātmani kṛṣṇa-vartma-vilasad-dṛṣṭir viśākhāñcitā | kandarpasya vidagdhatāṁ vidadhatI netrāñcalasya tviṣā tvaṁ rādhe śiva-mūrtir ity urasi māṁ bhogīndram aṅgīkuru ||228||

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'Radhe, the young moon-king upon your forehead has bestowed a fresh wealth of radiance; your glance, graced by Visakha, shines along Krsna's dark path, and the splendor at the corner of your eye displays Love's cleverness. You are the very form of Siva, so accept me, the king of serpents, upon your breast.'

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वितथोक्तिः, यथा तत्रैव (४४)- अस्मिन्न् अद्रौ कति न हि मया हन्त हारादि-वित्तꣳ हारꣳ हारꣳ हरिण-नयना ग्राहिता जैन-दीक्षाम् । याः काकूक्ति-स्थगित-वदनाः पत्र-दानेन दीनास् तूर्णꣳ दूराद् अनुजगृहिरे प्रौढ-वल्ली-सखीभिः ॥२२९॥

vitathoktiḥ, yathā tatraiva (44)- asminn adrau kati na hi mayā hanta hārādi-vittaṁ hāraṁ hāraṁ hariṇa-nayanā grāhitā jaina-dīkṣām | yāḥ kākūkti-sthagita-vadanāḥ patra-dānena dīnās tūrṇaṁ dūrād anujagṛhire prauḍha-vallī-sakhībhiḥ ||229||

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Deceptive speech, as in the same work, 44: 'Alas, how many doe-eyed girls upon this mountain have I not initiated into the Jain path by taking necklace after necklace as my fee! Silenced by their pleading words and impoverished by paying leaves, they were soon favored from afar by their mature vine-like companions.'

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अथ स्पर्शनम्, यथा- न कुरु शपथम् अस्य स्पर्शतो दूषितोच्चैर् असि भुज-भुजगेन त्वꣳ भुजङ्गाधिपस्य । तनुर् अनुपम-कम्पा स्वेदम् अभ्युद्गिरन्ती कपटिनि परितस् ते पश्य रोमाञ्चितास्ति ॥२३०॥

atha sparśanam, yathā- na kuru śapatham asya sparśato dūṣitoccair asi bhuja-bhujagena tvaṁ bhujaṅgādhipasya | tanur anupama-kampā svedam abhyudgirantī kapaṭini paritas te paśya romāñcitāsti ||230||

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Now, touching: 'Do not swear an oath! By touching that lord of libertines, the serpent of his arm has thoroughly defiled you. Deceiver, look: your body trembles without equal, pours forth perspiration, and bristles with horripilation all over.'

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अथ वर्त्म-रोधनꣳ, यथा विदग्ध-माधवे (६.१९)- परीतꣳ शृङ्गेण स्फुटतर-शिला-श्यामल-रुचꣳ वलद्-वेत्रꣳ वꣳश-व्यतिकर-लसन्-मेखलम् अमुम् । अतिक्रम्योत्तुङ्गꣳ धरणि-धरम् अग्रे कथम् इतस् त्वया गन्तुꣳ शक्या तरणि-दुहितुस् तीर-सरणी ॥२३१॥

atha vartma-rodhanaṁ, yathā vidagdha-mādhave (6.19)- parītaṁ śṛṅgeṇa sphuṭatara-śilā-śyāmala-rucaṁ valad-vetraṁ vaṁśa-vyatikara-lasan-mekhalam amum | atikramyottuṅgaṁ dharaṇi-dharam agre katham itas tvayā gantuṁ śakyā taraṇi-duhitus tīra-saraṇī ||231||

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Now, blocking the path, as in Vidagdha-madhava 6.19: 'How will you pass this lofty mountain standing before you and reach the path along the Yamuna's bank? Its complexion is clearly dark as stone, a horn surrounds it, its cane-stick bends, and a belt shining with joined bamboo flutes encircles it.'

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अथ रासो, यथा- हरिर् नव-घनाकृतिः प्रति-वधू-द्वयꣳ मध्यतस् तद्-अꣳस-विलसद्-भुजो भ्रमति चित्रम् एको’प्य् असौ । वधूश् च तडिद्-उज्ज्वला प्रति-हरिद् वयꣳ मध्यतः सखी-धृत-कराम्बुजा नटति पश्य रासोत्सवे ॥२३२॥

atha rāso, yathā- harir nava-ghanākṛtiḥ prati-vadhū-dvayaṁ madhyatas tad-aṁsa-vilasad-bhujo bhramati citram eko’py asau | vadhūś ca taḍid-ujjvalā prati-harid vayaṁ madhyataḥ sakhī-dhṛta-karāmbujā naṭati paśya rāsotsave ||232||

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Now, the rasa dance: 'Hari, shaped like a fresh rain cloud, stands between every pair of maidens, his arms shining upon their shoulders; though one, he circles in marvelous fashion. And between every pair of Haris, behold a maiden radiant as lightning dancing in the rasa festival, her lotus hands held by her friends.'

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अथ वृन्दावन-क्रीडा- स्थल-कमलम् अलीनाꣳ स्तौति गीतैः पदꣳ ते रद-तति-मति-नम्रा वन्दते कुन्द-राजी । अधरम् अनुभजन्ती लम्बते बिम्ब-माला विलसति तव वश्या पश्य वृन्दाटवीयम् ॥२३३॥

atha vṛndāvana-krīḍā- sthala-kamalam alīnāṁ stauti gītaiḥ padaṁ te rada-tati-mati-namrā vandate kunda-rājī | adharam anubhajantī lambate bimba-mālā vilasati tava vaśyā paśya vṛndāṭavīyam ||233||

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Now, play in Vrndavana: 'See how this forest of Vrnda, obedient to you, sports! With the songs of its bees it praises the place of your feet; rows of kunda blossoms bow low like lines of teeth in reverence; and garlands of bimba fruit hang as though attending upon your lips.'

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यमुना-जल-केलिः, यथा- व्यात्युक्षी-युधि राधया घन-रसैः पर्युक्ष्यमाणस्य ते माल्यꣳ भङ्गम् अवाप वीर तिलको यातः किलादृश्यताम् । वक्त्रेन्दौ प्रतिमा-च्छलेन शरणꣳ लब्धः सखीꣳ कौस्तुभस् तन् मा भूश् चकितो विमुक्त-चिकुरꣳ नार्दत्य् असौ त्वद्-विधम् ॥२३४॥

yamunā-jala-keliḥ, yathā- vyātyukṣī-yudhi rādhayā ghana-rasaiḥ paryukṣyamāṇasya te mālyaṁ bhaṅgam avāpa vīra tilako yātaḥ kilādṛśyatām | vaktrendau pratimā-cchalena śaraṇaṁ labdhaḥ sakhīṁ kaustubhas tan mā bhūś cakito vimukta-cikuraṁ nārdaty asau tvad-vidham ||234||

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Water-sports in the Yamuna: 'Hero, as Radha drenched you with mighty streams in the battle of splashing, your garland broke and your forehead mark apparently disappeared. Your Kaustubha gem has taken refuge in the moon of a friend's face under the guise of its reflection. Do not be alarmed - she will not trouble one like you, even with her hair loosened.'

15.235

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यथा वा, पद्यावल्याꣳ (३०१)- जल-केलि-तरल-करतल- मुक्त-पुनः-पिहित-राधिका-वदनः । जगद् अवतु कोक-यूनोर् विघटन-सङ्घटन-कौतुकी कृष्णः ॥२३५॥

yathā vā, padyāvalyāṁ (301)- jala-keli-tarala-karatala- mukta-punaḥ-pihita-rādhikā-vadanaḥ | jagad avatu koka-yūnor vighaṭana-saṅghaṭana-kautukī kṛṣṇaḥ ||235||

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Or, as in Padyavali 301: May Krsna protect the world - Krsna who, in the sport of water, repeatedly uncovers and then covers Radhika's face with his restless palm, delighting in separating and reuniting the cakravaka-bird couple of her breasts.

15.236

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अथ नौखेला, यथा पद्यावल्याꣳ (२७०)- मुक्ता तरङ्ग-निवहेन पतङ्ग-पुत्री नव्या च नौर् इति वचस् तव तथ्यम् एव । शङ्का-निदानम् इदम् एव ममातिमात्रꣳ त्वꣳ चञ्चलो यद् इह माधव नाविको’सि ॥२३६॥

atha naukhelā, yathā padyāvalyāṁ (270)- muktā taraṅga-nivahena pataṅga-putrī navyā ca naur iti vacas tava tathyam eva | śaṅkā-nidānam idam eva mamātimātraṁ tvaṁ cañcalo yad iha mādhava nāviko’si ||236||

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Now, boat play, as in Padyavali 270: 'The Yamuna is tossed by hosts of waves and the boat is new - these words of yours are entirely true. Yet my one exceedingly great cause for fear is this, Madhava: you are a restless boatman.'

15.237

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अथ लीला-चौर्यम्- लीला-चौर्यꣳ भवेद् वꣳशी-वस्त्र-पुष्पादि-हारिता ॥२३७॥

atha līlā-cauryam- līlā-cauryaṁ bhaved vaṁśī-vastra-puṣpādi-hāritā ||237||

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Now, playful theft. Playful theft consists in stealing a flute, garments, flowers, and the like.

15.238

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अथ वꣳशी-चौर्यम्, यथा पद्यावल्याꣳ (२५३)- नीचैर् न्यासाद् अथ चरणयोर् नूपुर मूकयन्ती धृत्वा धृत्वा कतक-वलयान्य् उत्क्षिपन्ती भुजान्ते । मुद्राम् अक्ष्णोश् चकितꣳ शश्वद् आलोकयन्ती स्मित्वा स्मित्वा हरति मुरलीम् अङ्कतो माधवस्य ॥२३८॥

atha vaṁśī-cauryam, yathā padyāvalyāṁ (253)- nīcair nyāsād atha caraṇayor nūpura mūkayantī dhṛtvā dhṛtvā kataka-valayāny utkṣipantī bhujānte | mudrām akṣṇoś cakitaṁ śaśvad ālokayantī smitvā smitvā harati muralīm aṅkato mādhavasya ||238||

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Now, stealing the flute, as in Padyavali 253: Setting her feet down softly to silence her anklets, repeatedly grasping and lifting her bangles toward the ends of her arms, and constantly watching his eyes with an alarmed look, she smiles again and again as she steals the flute from Madhava's lap.

15.239

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अथ वस्त्र-चौर्यꣳ, यथा- छदावलि-वृतैव नः सपदि काचिद् एका व्रजꣳ प्रविश्य जरतीर् इहानयतु घोर-कर्मोद्धताः । अयꣳ गुण-निधिस् तरोर् उपरि ताभिर् अभ्यर्च्यताम् उमा-व्रत-कुमारिका-पटल-चेल-पाटच्-चरः ॥२३९॥

atha vastra-cauryaṁ, yathā- chadāvali-vṛtaiva naḥ sapadi kācid ekā vrajaṁ praviśya jaratīr ihānayatu ghora-karmoddhatāḥ | ayaṁ guṇa-nidhis taror upari tābhir abhyarcyatām umā-vrata-kumārikā-paṭala-cela-pāṭac-caraḥ ||239||

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Now, stealing garments: 'Let one of us, still concealed by this mass of leaves, quickly enter the village and bring the formidable old women here. Let them worship this treasury of virtues atop the tree - the highway robber of the garments belonging to the young maidens observing their vow to Uma.'

15.240

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अथ पुष्प-चौर्यꣳ, यथा- अयि ज्ञातꣳ ज्ञातꣳ हरसि हरिणाक्षि प्रतिदिनꣳ त्वम् एव प्रच्छन्ना मम सुमनसाꣳ मञ्जरिम् इतः । चिराद् दिष्ट्या चौरि त्वम् इह विधृताद्य स्वयम् अतो गुहाकाराम् आरात् प्रविश वसतिꣳ प्रौढिभिर् अलम् ॥२४०॥

atha puṣpa-cauryaṁ, yathā- ayi jñātaṁ jñātaṁ harasi hariṇākṣi pratidinaṁ tvam eva pracchannā mama sumanasāṁ mañjarim itaḥ | cirād diṣṭyā cauri tvam iha vidhṛtādya svayam ato guhākārām ārāt praviśa vasatiṁ prauḍhibhir alam ||240||

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Now, stealing flowers: 'Ah, I know, I know, doe-eyed girl! Every day it is you who secretly steals my cluster of flowers from here. Thief, by good fortune I have caught you myself today after so long. Therefore boldly enter my nearby cave-shaped dwelling.'

15.241

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अथ घट्टः, यथा दान-केलि-कौमुद्याम् (६४)- घट्टाधिराजम् अवमत्य विवादम् एव यूयꣳ यद् आचरथ शुल्कम् अदित्यमानाः । मन्ये विधित्सथ तद् अत्र गिरेस् तटेषु दुर्गेषु हन्त विषमेषु रणाभियोगम् ॥२४१॥

atha ghaṭṭaḥ, yathā dāna-keli-kaumudyām (64)- ghaṭṭādhirājam avamatya vivādam eva yūyaṁ yad ācaratha śulkam adityamānāḥ | manye vidhitsatha tad atra gires taṭeṣu durgeṣu hanta viṣameṣu raṇābhiyogam ||241||

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Now, taxation at the landing place, as in Dana-keli-kaumudi 64: 'You refuse to pay the toll, scorn the sovereign of the landing place, and engage only in argument. I think you intend to launch a military campaign here amid the mountain's forbidding and treacherous strongholds.'

15.242

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अथ कुञ्जादि-लीनता, यथा विदग्ध-माधवे (६.२५)- शङ्के सङ्कुलितान्तराद्य निविड-क्रीडानुबन्धेच्छया कुञ्जे वञ्जुल-शाखिनः शशिमुखी लीना वरीवर्ति सा । नो चेद् एष तद्-अङ्घ्रि-सङ्गम-विनाभावाद् अकाले कथꣳ पुष्पामोद-निमन्त्रितालि-पटली-स्तोत्रस्य पात्रीभवेत् ॥२४२॥

atha kuñjādi-līnatā, yathā vidagdha-mādhave (6.25)- śaṅke saṅkulitāntarādya niviḍa-krīḍānubandhecchayā kuñje vañjula-śākhinaḥ śaśimukhī līnā varīvarti sā | no ced eṣa tad-aṅghri-saṅgama-vinābhāvād akāle kathaṁ puṣpāmoda-nimantritāli-paṭalī-stotrasya pātrībhavet ||242||

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Now, hiding in bowers and elsewhere, as in Vidagdha-madhava 6.25: 'I suspect that moon-faced girl is hidden today in a bower of the vanjula tree, her heart crowded with desire to continue intense play. Otherwise, since these flowers could not bloom out of season without contact with her feet, how could they now become the object of hymns from hosts of bees invited by their fragrance?'

15.243

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अथ मधु-पानꣳ, यथा- मुख-विधुम् उदितꣳ मधु-द्विषो’सौ मधु-चषके मधुरꣳ समीक्ष्य मुग्धा । अदिशत दृशम् एव तत्र पातुꣳ न तु वदनꣳ मुहुर् अर्थितापि तेन ॥२४३॥

atha madhu-pānaṁ, yathā- mukha-vidhum uditaṁ madhu-dviṣo’sau madhu-caṣake madhuraṁ samīkṣya mugdhā | adiśata dṛśam eva tatra pātuṁ na tu vadanaṁ muhur arthitāpi tena ||243||

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Now, drinking honey wine: The innocent girl saw the moon of Madhusudana's face rise sweetly within her cup of honey wine. Though he repeatedly entreated her, she directed only her gaze there to drink and would not place the cup to her mouth.

15.244

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अथ वधू-वेश-धृतिः, यथा उद्धव-सन्देशे (६४)- केयꣳ श्यामा स्फुरति सरले गोप-कन्या किम्-अर्थꣳ प्राप्ता सख्यꣳ तव मृगयते निर्मितासौ वयस्या । आलिङ्गामूꣳ मुहुर् इति तथा कुर्वती माꣳ विदित्वा नारी-वेशम् ह्रियम् उपययौ मानिनी यत्र राधा ॥२४४॥

atha vadhū-veśa-dhṛtiḥ, yathā uddhava-sandeśe (64)- keyaṁ śyāmā sphurati sarale gopa-kanyā kim-arthaṁ prāptā sakhyaṁ tava mṛgayate nirmitāsau vayasyā | āliṅgāmūṁ muhur iti tathā kurvatī māṁ viditvā nārī-veśam hriyam upayayau māninī yatra rādhā ||244||

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Now, wearing a bride's dress, as in Uddhava-sandesa 64: 'Simple girl, who is this dark-complexioned cowherd maiden shining here, and why has she come? She seeks your friendship; I have made her your companion. Embrace her again and again.' When Radha did so and recognized me in woman's dress, that proud girl became bashful.

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कपट-सुप्तता, यथा कर्णामृते (२१)- स्तोक-स्तोक-निरुध्यमान-मृदुल-प्रस्यन्दि-मन्द-स्मितꣳ प्रेमोद्भेद-निरर्गल-प्रसृमर-प्रव्यक्त-रोमोद्गमम् । श्रोतुꣳ श्रोत्र-मनोहरꣳ व्रज-वधू-लीला-मिथो जल्पितꣳ मिथ्या-स्वापम् उपास्महे भगवतः क्रीडा-निमीलद्-दृशः ॥२४५॥

kapaṭa-suptatā, yathā karṇāmṛte (21)- stoka-stoka-nirudhyamāna-mṛdula-prasyandi-manda-smitaṁ premodbheda-nirargala-prasṛmara-pravyakta-romodgamam | śrotuṁ śrotra-manoharaṁ vraja-vadhū-līlā-mitho jalpitaṁ mithyā-svāpam upāsmahe bhagavataḥ krīḍā-nimīlad-dṛśaḥ ||245||

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Now, feigned sleep, as in Krsna-karnamrta 21: We worship the Lord's feigned sleep, his eyes playfully closed so that he may hear the cowherd women's mutually spoken pastimes, enchanting to the ear. His gentle, flowing smile is checked little by little, while the plainly rising hairs of his body spread unchecked as love bursts forth.

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अथ द्यूत-क्रीडा- जित्वा द्यूत-पणꣳ दशत्य् अघहरे गण्डꣳ मुदा दक्षिणꣳ सा वामꣳ च दशेति तत्र रभसाद् अक्षꣳ क्षिपन्त्य् अभ्यधात् । आज्ञाꣳ सुन्दरि ते यथेति हरिणा वामे च दष्टे ततः सꣳरम्भाद् इव सा भुजा-लतिकया कण्ठे बबन्ध प्रियम् ॥२४६॥

atha dyūta-krīḍā- jitvā dyūta-paṇaṁ daśaty aghahare gaṇḍaṁ mudā dakṣiṇaṁ sā vāmaṁ ca daśeti tatra rabhasād akṣaṁ kṣipanty abhyadhāt | ājñāṁ sundari te yatheti hariṇā vāme ca daṣṭe tataḥ saṁrambhād iva sā bhujā-latikayā kaṇṭhe babandha priyam ||246||

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Now, dice play: After winning the wager at dice, she joyfully bit Agha's destroyer on the right cheek. 'She should bite the left one too!' a friend cried, eagerly throwing the die. 'As you command, beautiful one,' said Hari, and bit Radha's left cheek. Then, as if in indignation, she bound her beloved around the neck with the vine of her arm.

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अथ पट्टाकृष्टिः, यथा ललित-माधवे (६.३१)- धन्यः सो’यꣳ मणिर् अविरल-ध्वान्त-पुञ्जे निकुञ्जे स्मित्वा स्मित्वा मयि कुच-पटीꣳ कृष्टवत्य् उन्मदेन । गाढꣳ गूढाकृतिर् अपि तया मन्-मुखाकुत-वेदी निष्ठीवन् यः किरण-लहरीꣳ ह्रेपयामास राधाम् ॥२४७॥

atha paṭṭākṛṣṭiḥ, yathā lalita-mādhave (6.31)- dhanyaḥ so’yaṁ maṇir avirala-dhvānta-puñje nikuñje smitvā smitvā mayi kuca-paṭīṁ kṛṣṭavaty unmadena | gāḍhaṁ gūḍhākṛtir api tayā man-mukhākuta-vedī niṣṭhīvan yaḥ kiraṇa-laharīṁ hrepayāmāsa rādhām ||247||

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Now, tugging at garments, as in Lalita-madhava 6.31: 'Blessed is this jewel! When in the bower, amid uninterrupted masses of darkness, I madly tugged at the cloth over her breasts, that jewel - though itself hidden and tightly covered - understood the intention upon my face. Spitting forth a wave of rays, it made Radha blush.'

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अथ चुम्बो, यथा- कपट-चटुलित-भ्रुवः समन्तान् मुख-शशिनः रभसाद् विधूयमानम् । दनुज-रिपुर् अचुम्बद् अम्बुजाक्ष्याः कमलम् इवानिल-कम्पि चञ्चरीकः ॥२४८॥

atha cumbo, yathā- kapaṭa-caṭulita-bhruvaḥ samantān mukha-śaśinaḥ rabhasād vidhūyamānam | danuja-ripur acumbad ambujākṣyāḥ kamalam ivānila-kampi cañcarīkaḥ ||248||

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Now, kissing: The enemy of the demons impetuously kissed the lotus-eyed girl's moonlike face as she shook it in every direction, her eyebrows moving in playful deceit - like a bee kissing a lotus trembling in the wind.

15.249

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अथ आश्लेषो, यथा- नव-जागुड-वर्णयोपगूढः स्फुरद्-अभ्र-द्युतिर् एतयोन्मदेन । हरति स्म हरिर् हिरण्य-वल्ली- परिवीताङ्ग-तमाल-मङ्गलानि ॥२४९॥

atha āśleṣo, yathā- nava-jāguḍa-varṇayopagūḍhaḥ sphurad-abhra-dyutir etayonmadena | harati sma harir hiraṇya-vallī- parivītāṅga-tamāla-maṅgalāni ||249||

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Now, embracing: Hari, radiant as a flashing cloud and ecstatically embraced by the maiden whose complexion was like fresh liquid gold, stole the auspicious beauty of a tamala tree entwined by a golden vine.

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अथ नख-क्षतꣳ, यथा- न कुचाव् इमौ गति-जिता तया हृतꣳ गजतः प्रसह्य सखि कुम्भयोर् युगम् । क्षतम् अत्र नाग-दमनो यद् अर्पय- त्परमङ्गजाङ्कुश-वरेण तत्-क्षणम् ॥२५०॥

atha nakha-kṣataṁ, yathā- na kucāv imau gati-jitā tayā hṛtaṁ gajataḥ prasahya sakhi kumbhayor yugam | kṣatam atra nāga-damano yad arpaya- tparamaṅgajāṅkuśa-vareṇa tat-kṣaṇam ||250||

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Now, marking with the nails: 'Friend, these are not breasts. With the proud majesty of her gait, she forcibly stole the pair of frontal globes from an elephant. At that very moment the subduer of the serpent marked them with the excellent goad of Love - the tips of his nails.'

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अथ बिम्बाधर-सुधा-पानꣳ, यथा- न हि सुधाकर-बिम्ब-मुधाकरꣳ कुरु मुखꣳ करभोरु करावृतम् । अधर-रङ्गणम् अङ्ग वराङ्गने पिबतु नीप-वनी-भ्रमरस् तव ॥२५१॥

atha bimbādhara-sudhā-pānaṁ, yathā- na hi sudhākara-bimba-mudhākaraṁ kuru mukhaṁ karabhoru karāvṛtam | adhara-raṅgaṇam aṅga varāṅgane pibatu nīpa-vanī-bhramaras tava ||251||

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Now, drinking nectar from bimba-red lips: 'Thighs lovely as an elephant's trunk, do not cover the nectar-yielding orb of your face with your hand in vain. Beautiful-limbed lady, let the bee of the kadamba grove drink from the arena of your lips.'

15.252

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अथ सम्प्रयोगो, यथा- द्राग्-दोर्-मण्डल-पीडनोद्धुर-धियः प्रोद्दाम-वैजात्यया निर्बन्धाद् अधरामृतानि पिबतः सीत्कार-पूर्णास्यया । कन्दर्पोत्सव-पण्डितस्य मणितैर् आक्रान्त-कुञ्जान्तया सार्धꣳ राधिकया हरेर् निधुवन-क्रीडा-विधिर् वर्धते ॥२५२॥

atha samprayogo, yathā- drāg-dor-maṇḍala-pīḍanoddhura-dhiyaḥ proddāma-vaijātyayā nirbandhād adharāmṛtāni pibataḥ sītkāra-pūrṇāsyayā | kandarpotsava-paṇḍitasya maṇitair ākrānta-kuñjāntayā sārdhaṁ rādhikayā harer nidhuvana-krīḍā-vidhir vardhate ||252||

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Now, full erotic union: Hari's forest love-play with Radhika grows ever more intense. His mind is eager to press her at once within the circle of his arms, and he insistently drinks the nectar of her lips despite her proud resistance. Her face fills with soft cries, and the bower's interior is pervaded by her jeweled sounds as she joins that master of Love's festival.

15.253

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विदग्धानाꣳ मिथो लीला-विलासेन यथा सुखम् । न तथा सम्प्रयोगेण स्याद् एवꣳ रसिका विदुः ॥२५३॥

vidagdhānāṁ mitho līlā-vilāsena yathā sukham | na tathā samprayogeṇa syād evaṁ rasikā viduḥ ||253||

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Connoisseurs know that clever lovers gain a happiness from their mutual playful arts that full erotic union itself does not provide.

15.254

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यथा- बलेन परिरम्भणे नख-शिखाभिर् उल्लेखनꣳ हठाद् अधर-खण्डने भुज-युगेन बन्ध-क्रियाम् । दुकूल-दलने हतिः कुवलयेन कुर्वाणया रताद् अपि सुखꣳ हरेर् अधिकम् आदधे राधया ॥२५४॥

yathā- balena parirambhaṇe nakha-śikhābhir ullekhanaṁ haṭhād adhara-khaṇḍane bhuja-yugena bandha-kriyām | dukūla-dalane hatiḥ kuvalayena kurvāṇayā ratād api sukhaṁ harer adhikam ādadhe rādhayā ||254||

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For example: When he forcibly embraced her, Radha scratched him with her nail tips; when he bit her lip by force, she bound him with both arms; and when he tore her fine garment, she struck him with a blue lotus. In this way she gave Hari even greater happiness than union itself.

15.255

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यथा वा- नर्मोत्सेक-कलादृगञ्चल-चमत्कारी भ्रुवोर् विभ्रमः सꣳव्यानस्य विकर्षण् चटुलताꣳ कर्णोत्पलेनाहतिः । क्रीडेयꣳ व्रज-नागरी-रति-गुरोर् गान्धर्विकायास् तथा भूयिष्ठꣳ सुरतोत्सवाद् अपि नवास्वादꣳ वितेने सुखम् ॥२५५॥

yathā vā- narmotseka-kalādṛgañcala-camatkārī bhruvor vibhramaḥ saṁvyānasya vikarṣaṇ caṭulatāṁ karṇotpalenāhatiḥ | krīḍeyaṁ vraja-nāgarī-rati-guror gāndharvikāyās tathā bhūyiṣṭhaṁ suratotsavād api navāsvādaṁ vitene sukham ||255||

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Or: The wondrous play of Gandharvika's eyebrows, charming through sidelong glances artful with overflowing wit; her deft tug upon his upper cloth; and her blow with the lotus at her ear - this play of the expert teacher of love among Vraja's urbane maidens produced a fresh-tasting happiness even more abundant than the festival of union.

15.256

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अतएव श्री-गीत-गोविन्दे (१२.१०)- प्रत्यूह-पुलकाङ्कुरेण निविड-लेश-निमेषेण च क्रीडाकूत-विलोकिते’धर-सुधा-पाने कथा-केलिभिः । आनन्दाधिगमेन मन्मथ-कला-युद्धे’पि यस्मिन्न् अभुद् उद्भूतः स तयोर् बभूव सुरतारम्भः प्रियꣳ-भावुकः ॥२५६॥

ataeva śrī-gīta-govinde (12.10)- pratyūha-pulakāṅkureṇa niviḍa-leśa-nimeṣeṇa ca krīḍākūta-vilokite’dhara-sudhā-pāne kathā-kelibhiḥ | ānandādhigamena manmatha-kalā-yuddhe’pi yasminn abhud udbhūtaḥ sa tayor babhūva suratārambhaḥ priyaṁ-bhāvukaḥ ||256||

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Therefore Sri Gita-govinda 12.10 says: Their attempts at play were obstructed by sprouting horripilation; their eyes closed tightly for a moment; sidelong glances and playful words interrupted their drinking of lip-nectar; and the attainment of bliss impeded even the battle of Love's arts. Thus the very beginning of their union became a source of deep mutual delight.

15.257

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यथा- गोकुलानन्द गोविन्द गोष्ठेन्द्र-कुल-चन्द्रमः । प्राणेश सुन्दरोत्तꣳस नागराणाꣳ शिखामणेः ॥२५७॥

yathā- gokulānanda govinda goṣṭhendra-kula-candramaḥ | prāṇeśa sundarottaṁsa nāgarāṇāṁ śikhāmaṇeḥ ||257||

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'Delight of Gokula! Govinda! Moon of the cowherd king's family! Lord of my life! Crest ornament of beautiful men! Crown jewel of gallant lovers!

15.258

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वृन्दावन-विधो गोष्ठ-युव-राज मनोहर । इत्य् आद्या व्रज-देवीनाꣳ प्रेयसी प्रणयोक्तयः ॥२५८॥

vṛndāvana-vidho goṣṭha-yuva-rāja manohara | ity ādyā vraja-devīnāṁ preyasī praṇayoktayaḥ ||258||

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Moon of Vrndavana! Young prince of the cowherd settlement! Enchanter of the heart!' These and similar words are the loving addresses spoken by the beloved goddesses of Vraja.

15.c1

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स्पृष्टः परꣳ तटस्थेन रसाब्धिर् मधुरो मया ॥ओ॥

spṛṣṭaḥ paraṁ taṭasthena rasābdhir madhuro mayā ||o||

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Standing only upon its shore, I have merely touched the ocean of madhura-rasa.

15.c2

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भजतु तव मकर-कुण्डल-परिसर-सेवौचितीꣳ देव ॥ओ॥

bhajatu tava makara-kuṇḍala-parisara-sevaucitīṁ deva ||o||

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O Lord, may this work become worthy to serve the region of your shark-shaped earrings - your ears.