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राम
Rasamālikā
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षष्ठमोवकाशः - हरिप्रिया छन्द; दोहा

Service after the spring play and the sixth section's close

Page unit 27 of 53 · printed page 27

Original · Devanagari

कोइ कसहिं पीताम्बर अंग सुगंध लगावै जू कोइ चमर ढुरावै मधुर मधुर कोइ गावै जू ॥३॥ सखियन के भूषन निज कर लाल सुधारी जू फूलन रचि चौकी सखि प्रभु कहँ बैठारी जू कोइ चरण प्रछाले धूप दीप करे प्यारी जू छप्पन विधि भोजन लाइ सखी न्यारी न्यारी जू ॥४॥ फल फूल मूल दल अमियनिंदक बहु ल्यावैं जू प्रभु सखिन पवावहिं सखिय देइ प्रभु पावैं जू रस पाइ परस्पर लै आचमन सु पान जू करैं दिव्य आरती बाजन धुनि धुनि गान जू ॥५॥ एक सुमन सेज रचि प्रीतम को पौढ़ाई जू सखि पाय पलोटहिं कुच पद परसि लड़ाई जू हँसि हँसि सब माँगहिं रास दान पुनि दीजै जू प्रभु रामचरण उठि जल विहार कछु कीजै जू ॥६॥ ॥ दोहा ॥ कहत एक बहु लहत भिन्न कूटे मुख पद बान बिरही रटनि पपीह की सोठ जल करे न पान ॥१॥ जस पुनरोक्त न होत है हरि सम्बन्धी बात तेहि विधि लाड़ लड़ाइ सखि अकह नेह को नात ॥२॥ इति श्री रसमालिकायां बोध शास्त्रे बन वसन्ताख्ये रसरासे मण्डलस्थे संज्ञा वरननो नाम षष्ठोवकाशः ॥६॥

Fresh English translation

Some fasten the yellow garment and perfume the limbs; some wave fly-whisks and others sing sweetly. Lāl himself straightens the companions' ornaments. A companion builds a flower-seat and seats the Lord; others wash the feet, offer incense and lamps, and bring fifty-six distinct dishes. They bring fruits, flowers, roots, and leaves that shame nectar. The Lord feeds the companions and receives food from their hands; all taste rasa together, rinse, take fine betel, and perform divine ārati amid instrumental music and song. A flower-couch is made and the Beloved laid upon it. Companions massage the feet and playfully press breast to foot; laughing, they ask again for the gift of the rāsa, and the Lord rises with Rāmacaraṇa to undertake a little water-sport. The dohas explain that one utterance may yield many meanings through distinct arrangements of words, just as the rain-thirsty bird repeats its cry yet will drink only the pure drop. Speech concerning Hari is never mere repetition; so too the companions' caresses express an ineffable bond of love. Thus ends the sixth avakāśa, the description of the forest called Spring and the circle situated in the rāsa of rasa in the teaching-text Śrī Rasamālikā.