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- Read on →: tvāṁ natvā yācate dhṛtvā tṛṇaṁ dantair ayaṁ janaḥ
tvāṁ natvā yācate dhṛtvā tṛṇaṁ dantair ayaṁ janaḥ |
sva-dāsyāmṛta-sekena jīvayāmuṁ suduḥkhitam ||
na muñcec charaṇāyātam api duṣṭaṁ dayāmayaḥ |
ato gāndharvike hā hā muñcainaṁ naiva tādṛśam ||
(Stavāvalī: Premambodha-maranda-stava-rāja, 10–11)“Bowing to you, holding straw between his teeth, this person is begging: ‘By sprinkling the nectar of your own service, please give life to this most sorrowful one.’ One who is gracious should not reject even a depraved person who has sought shelter. Therefore, O Gāndharvikā! Hā! Hā! Please do not ever reject [even] someone such as this.”
- Read on →: smara-garala-khaṇḍanaṁ mama śirasi maṇḍanaṁ
smara-garala-khaṇḍanaṁ mama śirasi maṇḍanaṁ
dehi pāda-pallavam udāram |
(Gīta-govinda: 10.8)[Kṛṣṇa to Rādhā:] “Please place the ornament of the buds of your munificient feet, the antidote for Smara’s poison, atop my head.”
- Read on →: bhavatīm abhivādya cāṭubhir
bhavatīm abhivādya cāṭubhir
varam ūrjeśvari varyam arthaye |
bhavadīyatayā kṛpāṁ yathā
mayi kuryād adhikāṁ bakāntakaḥ ||
(Stava-mālā: Utkalikā-vallariḥ, 20)“O Ūrjeśvarī [i.e., O Rādhā, presiding goddess over Kārtika], I salute you, and with endearing words I pray for this finest benediction: may Bakāntaka [i..e, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the killer of Bakāsura], bestow greater grace upon me on account of [my] being your own.”
- Read on →: āśā-bharair amṛta-sindhu-mayaiḥ kathañcit
āśā-bharair amṛta-sindhu-mayaiḥ kathañcit
kālo mayātigamitaḥ kila sāmprataṁ hi |
tvaṁ cet kṛpāṁ mayi vidhāsyasi naiva kiṁ me
prāṇair vrajena ca varoru bakāriṇāpi ||
(Vilāpa-kusumāñjali: 102)“With an abundance of hope,
Which is made up of an ocean of nectar,
Somehow
A very long time has been passed by me
[Here on the bank of your kuṇḍa].
If you will indeed not bestow your grace upon me
At least certainly now [after so long],
Then what [is the use] of my vital airs,
Vraja,
Or, O you of fine thighs,
Even Baka’s Foe?” - Read on →: yasyaḥ kadāpi vasanañcala-khelanottha
yasyaḥ kadāpi vasanañcala-khelanottha-
dhanyātidhanya-pavenena kṛtārthamānī |
yogindra-durgama-gatir madhusūdano’pi
tasyā namo’stu vṛṣabhānu-bhuvo diśe’pi ||
(Rādhā-rasa-sudhā-nidhi: 2)“May my obeisance be offered towards even the direction of Vṛṣabhānu’s Daughter, she by the auspicious, most auspicious, breeze produced by the edge of whose cloth even Madhusūdana, the difficult to attain goal of the best of yogīs, considers himself fulfilled.”