Gopalacampu 1.25.4

1.25.4

[3] tataś ca locana-nikocaṃ hasantīṣu tāsu svayaṃ tena nāgara-candreṇa pravartitā vyātyukṣī, yathā-
meghaṃ vidyud vidyutaṃ cātra meghaḥ siñcaty uccair megha-tulye pravāhe | citraṃ citraṃ citram etat kim etat nāṭyaṃ paśyety ūcire vyoma-rāmāḥ || [śālinī] tataś cākaṇṭha-nirmagnā mahilāḥ kamalānanāḥ | madhusūdana-saṃsaktāḥ kamalinya iva sthitāḥ || [anuṣṭubh] gaṇe gaurāṅgīnāṃ harir acita-dharṣāt paribhavaṃ gate tatra svarṇāmbuja-ghana-vanī nihnutim adāt | viparyāso yarhy asphurad iha ca nīlāmbujavanī tadā tasyāpahnuty-ucita-citi-kṛte' bhūd anupamam || [śikhariṇī] ambuja-gandhi tathāmbuja-
rūpaṃ madhu-yug yathāmbujaṃ tad iva | tāsāṃ tasya ca vadanaṃ kiṃ jala-kelāv adād bhramaṃ na mithaḥ || [gīti] kathañcid api yā labdhā hariṇāmbhoja-kānane | kim api vyañjayāmāsa tasyā hāhā-kṛtiṃ param || [anuṣṭubh] smita-vilasita-nīlāmbhojam āsīdad ekā mukham anu hari-vaktra-sphūrti-sandigdha-cittā | iha ca vara-maranda-svādam āsādya sadyaṃ samaruci-yuvatībhyaḥ śaṅkinī svaṃ jugopa || [mālinī] durlabhaṃ yad ajani svayaṅgrahā- liṅganaṃ tad iha jātam añjasā | yarhi magnam anayā gabhīra-vār ujjahāra harir apy amūm atha || [rathoddhatā] drutam atha vara-rāmā vāri vakṣoja-daghnaṃ yugapad ayi bhavatyaḥ prāṇa-nāthaṃ vijetum | sthagita-kṛti-karābhyām icchavaḥ sektum uccaiḥ katham atha bata jigyur jigyire vā kathaṃ
na || [mālinī] padminyā mukha-padmaṃ
mudritam api sa madhusūdanaḥ pibati | iti miṣa-kalayā sudṛśaś
chalita-dṛśas tadvad ācarat kṛṣṇaḥ || [gīti] hariṇā hṛdaye tāsāṃ vitīrṇā nakhara-vraṇāḥ | adbhutaṃ sahasā śliṣṭā madaneṣu-kṛta-vraṇāḥ || [anuṣṭubh] aupajānuka-bhujas tu yadāsau pārśvatīya-mukhatīyatayāsīt | aupakarṇika-dṛśāṃ sa tad āsām aupanīvika-karo' py ajaniṣṭa || [svāgatā] yadā rādhā vāri-kelau sakhīnāṃ purato gatā | vināpi sekaṃ sa tadā jaḍatām abhajat priyaḥ || [anuṣṭubh] rādhā-puraḥ-saratayā jala-keli-yuddhe kṛṣṇaṃ cakāra jaḍam udyamam antarāpi | naitad viveda vanitā-nicitir mithas tu svīyām ajijñapad asau jita-kāśitāṃ ca || [vasantatilakā]
alaka-valayi-netraṃ kañja-netreṇa kīrṇaṃ
svam anu madhupa-tīkṣṇaṃ kañjam unnīya tasyām | sabhayam apagatāyāṃ tatra senādhipāyāṃ sa tu tad-anuga-sainyaṃ prāviśac cāviśac ca || [mālinī]
tataś ca-
nīra-keli-bhṛta-rāga-cakṣuṣām aṭṭa-hāsa-nibha-hāsa-rociṣām | māra-yuddha-lasad-uddhata-śriyāṃ raudravad vyajani so' py asau rasaḥ || [rathoddhatā] tataḥ krīḍā-yuddhaṃ dadhad agha-ripur nīra-vihṛti- prathāyām ekākī vraja-yuvati-koṭībhir abhitaḥ | tathā kṛtvā tīraṃ prasabham itavān samprati yathā purā kātyāyanyā bhajana-kṛti-kanyāsv akuruta || [śikhariṇī]
tataś ca-
marāla-kūjitā nīra-vasanā nīra-jānanāḥ | cañcad-bhramarakā nīrajānāṃ nālya iva sthitāḥ || [anuṣṭubh]
atha hā hā hāsa-śabdāḥ pravṛttā nīra-tīrayoḥ | eke cātaka-gīs-tulyāḥ pare' lpa-stanita-prabhāḥ || [anuṣṭubh]

[3] And then, while they were laughing with narrowed eyes, that moon of clever gallants himself initiated a water-sprinkling duel, as follows:

"Here the lightning sprinkles the cloud, and the cloud sprinkles the lightning, in a stream equal to a cloud!
Look at this wonder, wonder, wonder! What is this drama?"—so cried the celestial ladies in the sky. //

And then, immersed up to their necks, the lotus-faced women,
clinging to Madhusūdana, stood like beds of lotuses. //

When Hari suffered defeat from a concentrated assault by the troop of fair-limbed maidens, a dense cluster of golden lotuses gave him concealment.
When the reverse occurred here, the bed of blue lotuses then served as an incomparable, suitable contrivance for her concealment. //

Fragrant like lotuses, shaped like lotuses, and endowed with nectar just as a lotus is—
did not her face and his face cause mutual confusion during their water-sports? //

Whichever [maiden] was somehow captured by Hari in that lotus-forest,
he brought forth from her an indescribable cry of "Hā! Hā!" alone. //

One maiden, her mind in doubt whether the manifestation of Hari's face was before her, approached a blue lotus resplendent with a smile;
and tasting the choice nectar right there, suspicious of the equally radiant young girls, she hid herself. //

An embrace seized by herself, which had been so difficult to attain, was easily attained here,
when she sank into the deep water, and Hari then lifted her out. //

Quickly then, O excellent women, having entered the breast-deep water together in order to conquer the lord of your life,
wishing to sprinkle him intensely with your hands that obstructed his action—how, alas, did they conquer him, or how were they not conquered? //

"Madhusūdana drinks the lotus-face of the lotus-creeper, even though it is closed";
under such an artful pretext, Kṛṣṇa behaved in that very way toward the fair-eyed maidens whose eyes were deceived. //

By Hari nail-scratches were inflicted upon their breasts;
wondrously, the wounds made by the arrows of love were suddenly embraced. //

When his knee-length arm was positioned beside the edge of her face,
then, for these [maidens] with eyes extending to their ears, his hand also reached to their waistbands. //

When Rādhā stepped in front of her friends during the water-sports,
even without being splashed, her beloved then became completely stunned. //

Because of Rādhā's stepping to the fore in the water-sports duel, she rendered Kṛṣṇa stunned, even without any effort;
the host of women did not understand this, but among themselves each proclaimed her own display of victory. //

When she, the commander of the army, withdrew in fright after he raised before her a lotus sharp with bees, its pollen scattered by his lotus-eyes whose corners were ringed by curls,
he then entered and invaded her follower-army. //

And then:
For those whose eyes were filled with redness from their water-sports, the splendor of whose laughter resembled horse-laughter,
and whose haughty beauty shone in the battle of love, that rasa also became like the furious sentiment. //

Then, waging a playful battle in the course of his water-sporting, alone amidst millions of young maidens of Vraja on all sides,
the enemy of Agha forcefully reached the bank, acting just as he had done formerly with the maidens performing the worship of Kātyāyanī. //

And then:
With cries like those of swans, clothed in water, having lotus-faces,
and with trembling curls, they stood like the stalks of lotuses. //

Then the sounds of "Hā hā!" and laughter arose on the water and on the bank;
some were like the call of the cātaka bird, others possessed the faint splendor of rumbling clouds. //