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Sourceत्वं रूपमञ्जरि सखि प्रथिता पुरेऽस्मिन्पुंसः परस्य वदनं न हि पश्यसीति बिम्बाधरे क्षतमनागतभर्तृकाया यत्ते व्यधायि किमु तच्छुकपुङ्गवेन
tvaṃ rūpamañjari sakhi prathitā pure'sminpuṃsaḥ parasya vadanaṃ na hi paśyasīti bimbādhare kṣatamanāgatabhartṛkāyā yatte vyadhāyi kimu tacchukapuṅgavena
English translation
Fresh editorial translation from the Sanskrit Documents Vilāpa-kusumāñjali authority authority
O friend Rūpa Mañjarī, you are celebrated in Vraja for never looking at the face of any man but your husband. How, then, did that wound appear on the bimba fruit of your lip? Could the foremost of parrots have made it?
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Sourceस्थलकमलिनि युक्तं गर्विता काननेऽस्मिन्प्रणयसि वरहास्यं पुष्पगुच्छच्छलेन अपि निखिललतास्ताः सौरभाक्ताः स मुञ्चन्मृगयति तव मार्गं कृष्णभृङ्गो यदद्य
sthalakamalini yuktaṃ garvitā kānane'sminpraṇayasi varahāsyaṃ puṣpagucchacchalena api nikhilalatāstāḥ saurabhāktāḥ sa muñcanmṛgayati tava mārgaṃ kṛṣṇabhṛṅgo yadadya
English translation
Fresh editorial translation from the Sanskrit Documents Vilāpa-kusumāñjali authority authority
O proud land-lotus, you offer your lovely laughter in this forest under cover of a flower-cluster. Today the Kṛṣṇa-bee has left all the fragrant creepers and is searching for your path.
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Sourceव्रजेन्द्रवसतिस्थले विविधवल्लवीसङ्कुले त्वमेव रतिमञ्जरि प्रचुरपुण्यपुञ्जोदया विलासभरविस्मृतप्रणयिमेखलामार्गणे यदद्य निजनाथया व्रजति नाथिता कन्दरम्
vrajendravasatisthale vividhavallavīsaṅkule tvameva ratimañjari pracurapuṇyapuñjodayā vilāsabharavismṛtapraṇayimekhalāmārgaṇe yadadya nijanāthayā vrajati nāthitā kandaram
English translation
Fresh editorial translation from the Sanskrit Documents Vilāpa-kusumāñjali authority authority
O Rati Mañjarī, amid the many cowherd girls at the home of Vraja's king, you alone have arisen from a great treasury of merit: today your own mistress has asked you to enter the cave and search for the love-belt forgotten in the intensity of play.
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Sourceप्रभुरपि यदुनन्दनो च एष प्रिययदुनन्दन उन्नतप्रभावः स्वयमतुलकृपामृताभिषेकं मम कृतवांस्तमहं गुरुं प्रपद्ये
prabhurapi yadunandano ca eṣa priyayadunandana unnataprabhāvaḥ svayamatulakṛpāmṛtābhiṣekaṃ mama kṛtavāṃstamahaṃ guruṃ prapadye
English translation
Fresh editorial translation from the Sanskrit Documents Vilāpa-kusumāñjali authority authority
I surrender to my guru, Yadunandana Ācārya—himself a servant of the Lord and dear to Yadunandana—who personally bathed me in the incomparable nectar of his mercy.
005
Sourceयो मां दुस्तरगेहनिर्जलमहाकूपादपारक्लमात्सद्यः सान्द्रदयाम्बुधिः प्रकृतितः स्वैरी कृपारज्जुभिः उद्धृत्यात्मसरोजनिन्दिचरणप्रान्तं प्रपाद्य स्वयं श्रीदामोदरसाच्चकार तमहं चैतन्यचन्द्रं भजे
yo māṃ dustaragehanirjalamahākūpādapāraklamātsadyaḥ sāndradayāmbudhiḥ prakṛtitaḥ svairī kṛpārajjubhiḥ uddhṛtyātmasarojanindicaraṇaprāntaṃ prapādya svayaṃ śrīdāmodarasāccakāra tamahaṃ caitanyacandraṃ bhaje
English translation
Fresh editorial translation from the Sanskrit Documents Vilāpa-kusumāñjali authority authority
I worship the moonlike Śrī Caitanya. An ocean of dense compassion by nature, he drew me at once from the waterless, impassable well of household life with the ropes of his grace, placed me near his lotus feet, and entrusted me to Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara.
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Sourceवैराग्ययुग्भक्तिरसप्रयत्नैरपाययन्मामनभीप्सुमन्धम् कृपाम्बुधिर्यः परदुःखदुःखी सनातनं तं प्रभुमाश्रयामि
vairāgyayugbhaktirasaprayatnairapāyayanmāmanabhīpsumandham kṛpāmbudhiryaḥ paraduḥkhaduḥkhī sanātanaṃ taṃ prabhumāśrayāmi
English translation
Fresh editorial translation from the Sanskrit Documents Vilāpa-kusumāñjali authority authority
I take shelter of Śrī Sanātana Prabhu, an ocean of mercy who suffers at the suffering of others. Though I was blind and unwilling, he made me drink, through strenuous instruction, the devotional rasa joined with renunciation.