[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Epic, Poetry, Drama & Narrative](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit) › [Mixed prose-and-verse narratives](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu) › [Campūs on Kṛṣṇa and the Bhāgavata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.krsna) › [Gopalacampu](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.krsna.gopalacampu) › 1.24.6 # Gopalacampu 1.24.6 Gopālacampū 1.24.6 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.24.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.krsna.gopalacampu.1.24.6) dīpaḥ śāradabhūripūritaśaśī yatrāsti vṛndāvanaṃ raṅgaḥ śrīvrajanāyikāḥ svayam imā yūyaṃ kalākovidāḥ | taṃ cemaṃ samayaṃ sametya muditaḥ so' haṃ hariḥ kiṃ paraṃ kartāsmi kṣaṇam antarā tam api kiṃ rāsaṃ vinā bhoḥ priyāḥ || \[śārdūla\] \[4\] iti kṣīṇatamā vrajajaladhisambhavākṣīṇacandramāḥ sarvā api tāś cakorākṣīr aṣaḍakṣīṇayugapad liṅganādinā sukhalakṣalakṣitīkṛtya, balavad ādṛtya, rāsanṛtya-vidhaye nirjambālam astambajālam abandhuraṃ bandhuraṃ kamalabandhujāpulinam āvṛtya, parasparakarasaṃvalanayā valayākārāś cakāra | > "The lamp is the moon, fully swollen in autumn; where Vṛndāvana is the stage; and you yourselves are these heroines of glorious Vraja, skilled in the arts. Arrived at such an occasion as this, I, delighted Hari, what else shall I do for a moment—and without that rāsa, O beloveds?" \[3\] > Thus, the moon who had arisen from the ocean of Vraja, destroying the deepest darkness, having made all those partridge-eyed maidens targets of hundreds of thousands of joys by embracing them all simultaneously without six eyes \[that is, not as a third party looking on, but directly\], having deeply honoured them, and having occupied the pleasant bank of the sun's daughter, free of mud, free of thickets, and not uneven, for the performance of the rāsa-dance, formed them into the shape of a circle by joining their hands together. \[4\] > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.24.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.krsna.gopalacampu.1.24.5) - [Next: 1.24.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.krsna.gopalacampu.1.24.7) - [Up: 1.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.krsna.gopalacampu.1.24) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.krsna.gopalacampu~en-mt.1.24.6) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.krsna.gopalacampu.1.24.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.krsna.gopalacampu.1.24.6) · Pramāṇa