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  • he prema-sampad-atulā vraja-navya-yūnoḥ
    prāṇādhikāḥ priya-sakhī-priya-narma-sakhyaḥ |
    yuṣmākam eva caraṇābja-rajo’bhiṣekaṁ
    sākṣād avāpya saphalo’stu mamaiva mūrdhā ||
    (Sādhanāmṛta-candrikā: 1.26)

    “O you all the wealth of whose prema for the Young Couple of Vraja is incomparable! O you all who are more dear than life! O priya-sakhīs and priya-narma-sakhīs! May my head become successful by directly receiving a shower of the dust from your very own lotus feet.”

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  • namo nalina-netrāya veṇu-vādya-vinodine |
    rādhādhara-sudhā-pāna-śāline vana-māline ||
    (Unknown source; cited in Padyāvalī: 2)

    “Obeisance unto he of lotus eyes,
    
He who produces delight by playing the veṇu,
    
He who is adept in drinking the nectar of Rādhā’s lips,
    
He who wears a forest garland.”

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  • vaṁśī-nyastāsya-candraṁ smita-yutam atulaṁ pīta-vastraṁ vareṇyaṁ
    kañjākṣaṁ sarva-dakṣaṁ nava-ghana-sadṛśaṁ barha-cūḍaṁ śaraṇyam |
    trai-bhaṅgair bhaṅgimāṅgaṁ vraja-yuvati-yutaṁ dhvasta-keśy-ādi-śūraṁ
    vande śrī-nanda-sūnuṁ madhura-rasa-tanuṁ dhurya-mādhurya-pūram ||
    (Unknown source)

    “A vaṁśī poised before his moon face
    [Which is] Replete with an incomparable smile,
    His yellow cloth superb,
    His eyes like lotuses,
    Expert in all respects,
    Resembling a fresh cloud,
    His chaplet a peacock-plume,
    The [supreme] protector,
    His figure embowed with three bends
    And surrounded by the young women of Vraja,
    The hero by whom Keśī and so forth have been vanquished—
    I worship the beautiful Son of Nanda,
    The embodiment of madhura-rasa,
    The reservoir of the foremost mādhurya.”

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  • barhāpīḍābhirāmaṁ mṛgamada-tilakaṁ kuṇḍalākrānta-gaṇḍaṁ
    kañjākṣaṁ kambu-kaṇṭhaṁ smita-subhaga-mukhaṁ svādhare nyasta-veṇum |
    śyāmaṁ śāntaṁ tri-bhaṅgaṁ ravi-kara-vasanaṁ bhūṣitaṁ vaijayantyā
    vande vṛndāvana-sthaṁ yuvati-śata-vṛtaṁ brahma gopāla-veśam ||
    (Gautamīya Tantra: Gopāla-kavaca, 1)

    “Charming with a peacock-plume chaplet,
    His tilaka [made of] musk,
    His cheeks flanked by earrings,
    His eyes like lotuses,
    His throat like a conchshell,
    His face lovely with a smile,
    A veṇu fixed at his lips,
    Swarthy,
    Tranquil,
    Thrice-bent,
    His cloth like the rays of the sun,
    [And] Decorated with a vaijayantī [i.e., a victory garland]—
    I worship Brahman,
    Situated in Vṛndāvana,
    Surround by hundreds of young women,
    In the garb of a cowherd.”

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  • kṛṣṇāya vāsudevāya haraye paramātmane |
    praṇata-kleśa-nāśāya govindāya namo nama ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.73.16)

    [The 20,800 kings released after Jarāsandha’s defeat pray to Śrī Kṛṣṇa:] “Obeisance and obeisance unto Kṛṣṇa [i.e., Svayaṁ Bhagavān], Vāsudeva [i.e., he who has appeared as the son of Vasudeva], Hari [i.e., he who removes suffering and captivates the mind], Paramātmā [i.e., he who is the ultimate object of prema], the destroyer of the distress of the humble [i.e., his bhaktas], Govinda [i.e., he who sports in Vraja as a cowherd].”

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  • saṁsāra-duḥkha-jaladhau patitasya kāma-
    krodhādi-nakra-makaraiḥ kavalīkṛtasya |
    durvāsanā-nigaḍitasya nirāśrayasya
    caitanyacandra mama dehi padāvalambam ||
    (Caitanya-candrāmṛta: 54; cited in Sādhanāmṛta-candrikā: 1.8)

    “O Caitanyacandra, please extend the support of your feet to I, shelterless and fettered by harmful vāsanās, who have fallen into the ocean of the suffering of saṁsāra and been seized by the crocodiles and makaras of kāma, anger, and so forth.”

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