Gopalacampu 1.24.16

1.24.16

rādhā sva-kāntaṃ vaśitaṃ vidhāya niḥśeṣam ākrīḍati tena sārdham | nāhaṃ tathetīva śivā śivāntas- tanau nilīnārdha-tanu-cchalena || [upajāti 11]
athavā-
ardhenārdhena tanvā vyatimilanavato rudrayor eṣa bhāvaḥ kāvya-jñais tarkyate yaḥ sa punar iha mayā manyatāṃ bhaṇyamānaḥ |
premṇā yau pūrṇa-rūpau trijagati viditau rādhikā-mādhavākhyau pūrṇāṅgatvaṃ tayor apy ati-tad-asamayor nāv apīty aucitī na || [sragdharā]
[22] tad evaṃ sati-
vādye gīte ca divye pramada-śithilite bhūṣaṇānām alīnām apy āsīd dhvāna-vargaḥ pratinidhi-samaye tasya tasyāpi tatra | khede jāte tathāgāt prabala-naṭa-kalā lāsyatāṃ yena keśa- karṇottaṃsāvataṃsa-pramukha-vara-sabhā tadvad ullāsyate sma ||[sragdharā]
evaṃ pariṣvaṅga-karābhimarśa- snigdhekṣaṇoddāma-vilāsa-hāsān | samaṃ priyābhir vyatikṛtya nṛtyan vyāñjīd asau sa-pratibimba-bimbam || [upajāti 11]
tataś ca-
mālāḥ keśāli-veśān kuca-yugala-paṭīr maṇḍanāny anya-vāsāṃsy apy etā naiva śekuḥ kalayitum asakṛd rāsa-parvāvasāne | dhyāte yatrāpi sampraty api muni-vitatir vismaraty eva sarvam citraṃ tat-preyasīnāṃ tad iha bhavati kiṃ tādṛśe tat-prasaṅge ||[sragdharā]
taṃ dṛṣṭvāpy atha rāsam ambara-gatā rāmāś ca kāmārditā mohaṃ prāpur, adaś ca tāvad abhito' py āstāṃ paraṃ śrūyatām | candrādyair upalakṣitaṃ nabhasi yad bambhramyate sarvadā jyotiś-cakram idaṃ ca vismaya-karī caskambha yan mādhurī ||[śārdūlavikrīḍitam]
[23] tad evaṃ līlā-lubdhāsu paramāveśataḥ sa-priyāsu tāsu vilubhita-kriyāsu rāsa-vilāsaḥ samupararāma | [24] uparamati ca tasmiṃs, tat-tad-ananusandhāna-sandhim anu tāni mithunāni yathāvat kuñjāya kuñjāya pṛthak pṛthag antardadhire | antardhāya ca, tat tan mithunaṃ paraspara-parikara-pariṣkāra-parāyaṇatām āsasāda | [25] tatra ca pratyekaṃ teṣām āliṅganādi-sacivaṃ vacanādi-racanam evāsīt | yathā-

"Rādhā, having completely brought her beloved under her control, sports with him, / as if Śivā, saying 'I am not like that,' hides half her body inside Śiva's under that guise."
Or rather:
"That condition of the two Rudras, who merge with each other half-body by half-body, / which is conjectured by poets, may rather be understood as spoken by me here: / For Rādhikā and Mādhava, who are known throughout the three worlds as complete in their forms of love— / is it not improper that they, though unequaled even in that, should also lack completeness of limbs?"
[22] This being so:
When the divine instrumental music and singing grew slack with joy, / the humming of ornaments and bees took their place in that time of substitution; / and when exhaustion arose, the powerful dancer's art turned to gentle dance in such a way / that the distinguished assembly headed by hair-crests and ear-ornaments was likewise made to dance with delight.
Thus, exchanging embraces, caresses of the hand, / tender glances, and boundless playful laughter with his beloveds while dancing, / he revealed the reflections alongside the original forms.
And then:
"The garlands, braids of hair, garments on their pair of breasts, ornaments, and other clothes / they were not able to arrange again and again at the end of the festival of the rāsa; / even now, when that is merely meditated upon, the hosts of sages forget everything— / what wonder is it, then, that such happens here to his beloveds in that direct encounter with him?"
And seeing that rāsa, the celestial women in the sky were stricken with desire and fell into a swoon; / let that be set aside for now, but hear the greatest [marvel]: / this wheel of luminous bodies, marked by the moon and others, which constantly revolves in the sky, / was brought to a standstill by that sweetness which causes sheer wonder!
[23] Thus, while they, yearning for the divine play, had their actions suspended out of extreme absorption alongside their beloved, the sport of the rāsa ceased. [24] And when it ceased, along the juncture of that lack of awareness, those couples disappeared separately into arbor after arbor as appropriate. Having disappeared, each couple applied itself to decorating one another's attire. [25] And there, their every arrangement of speech and the like was accompanied by embraces and the like. As follows: