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राम

Jīvārāma Yugalapriyā · Pad 10

राग ललित

The tender Pair awake at dawn

Unit 10 of 115 · printed source page 3

Original · Devanagari

प्रीतम प्यारी सिय सुकुमारी जागे दोऊ भोर। आलस भरे एंडात परस्पर अँखियाँ अति चितचोर॥ नासामनि बेसरि अधरन पर हलत सरस दुहुँओर। मनहुँ शुक्र सुरगुरु बिचरत हैं कंज कोश के कोर॥ रूप गर्विता नव नागरि पिय नागर श्याम किशोर। युगलप्रिया दोउ अवधि बिदारी भो कछु कहिय सो थोर॥

Fresh English translation

At dawn the beloved Lord and tender Siya awake together. Full of languor, they stretch and steal one another's heart with their eyes. Their nose jewels and rings sway deliciously over their lips, like Venus and Jupiter moving at the edges of lotus cups. She is a newly accomplished beauty proud of her form; he, her urbane dark adolescent. Both have broken every limit of Ayodhya—whatever Yugalapriya might say would be too little.