[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) › 1.27.30 # Gopalacampu 1.27.30 Gopālacampū 1.27.30 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.27.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.krsna.gopalacampu.1.27.30) seyaṃ bhiṣag-asitāṅgī mama hṛd-dāhaṃ cikitsituṃ labdhā | spṛśatī sakhi kara-nāḍīm anyāṅgaṃ dhik kutaḥ spṛśati || śyāmā vaiṇavikīyaṃ vidūra-vāsā niśārdham udbhūtam | sakhya-sthalam idam alpaṃ tan mama talpaṃ tu saṃkucad bhavatu || kavir iyam atulā bhavatu śyāma-vyaktiḥ svadhīta-tad-vidyā | asmākaṃ raha eṣā katham iva jānāti tan na jānāmi || śyāmā citra-karīyaṃ citraṃ vijane prakāśayati | mām iva kām api yatra sva-tulita-puṃsānvitāṃ sakhi vyadhita || rahasi tad etad vadmi tvayi sakhi na paratra kutrāpi | tāmbūlikīyam asitā mohana-mantraṃ vijānāti || seyaṃ mālā-kārī-mūrtir mālāḥ prasārayati | tasya śyāmala-mūrteḥ kasmāt puṣpeṣu vāsanāṃ tanute || phala-vikrayiṇī śyāmā phalam iha vividhaṃ prasārayati | bilvaṃ kevalam atha kiṃ gṛhṇaty asmān vilokayati || seyaṃ śyāmā na satī hāra-vyatihāra-sambhavad-dravyā | aparicitāpi svayam atha maṇisara-paridhāpanaṃ vaṣṭi || yad-avadhi tad-aguru-sattvaṃ tasyā gṛhṇāmi gandha-jīvinyāḥ | tad-avadhi guravo mayi sakhi kṛṣṇam akṛṣṇaṃ ca bruvate ||\[59\] atha śrīvatsa-lakṣaṇasyāpy etad-upalakṣaṇaṃ bahu-racanaṃ vacanaṃ lakṣaṇīyam, yathā- sīvana-vijñā svayam api para-śilpānāṃ vilokanāt kartrī | sāhaṃ praṇayi-vyaktir lokaya gopi sva-hṛd-gatāṃ colīm || aham iha rañjana-kārī śyāmābhikhyā jagad-gata-khyātiḥ | yā mama vastraṃ vaste vikasati hṛt-kañja-rañjanāpy asyāḥ || darpaṇa-kārmuka-vidruma-muktā vikretum īhase spaṣṭam | gūḍhaṃ sampuṭa-yugalaṃ kretum ahaṃ tu vrajastri pṛcchāmi || saṃvāhana-nipuṇātmā sutanur ahaṃ tava niṣevaṇaṃ lipsuḥ | mat-sparśāṃśaja-saukhyaṃ subhage brāhmaṃ sukhaṃ jayati || \[60\] tatra ca sati- kaṅkaṇa-kāri-strīvad-veśaṃ keśavam upetya yāḥ kāścit | dakṣiṇa-vāma-caritraṃ tenus tan na hi karavāmahe sadasi || andhakāra-maya-pakṣa-lakṣitām ambikā-vana-gatiṃ vidhāya tām | yady adiṣṭam abhavan murāriṇā miṣṭam iṣṭam ataniṣṭa tad bahu ||\[61\] tad evaṃ sati- kaṃsārer hṛdayābja-sambhavad-alī-vīthīyamānā vraja- preyasyaḥ sphuṭam antarāntara-padaṃ yātāḥ kramād antataḥ | evaṃ ced bhavatān na tatra ca vayaṃ saṃdihya vibrūmahe rādhā yat kila karṇikā-sthitim agād asmākam atrāgrahaḥ || > “This dark-limbed female physician was obtained to cure the burning of my heart. / O friend, she touches the pulse of my hand; why does she touch another limb? Shame!” // “This dark female flute-player / has her dwelling far away, and midnight has arisen. / This place of friendship is small; / may my bedstead become narrow.” // “Let this peerless poet be a dark person who has mastered that lore herself. / How does she know our secret? That I do not understand.” // “This dark female painter displays a marvelous painting in a secluded place, / wherein, O friend, she has depicted someone like me, accompanied by a man equal to herself.” // “O friend, I tell you this in secret, nowhere else to anyone: / this dark betel-leaf seller knows an enchanting mantra!” // “This female garland-maker in bodily form offers garlands. / Why does she instill a desire for flowers in that dark-formed one?” // “A dark female fruit-seller displays various fruits here. / Why does she take only the bilva fruit and look upon us?” // “This dark woman is not chaste, possessing items obtained from bartering necklaces. / Even though unknown, she herself desires to put a pearl necklace \[upon me\].” // “From the moment / I take the essence of that aguru from that female perfumer, / from that moment, O friend, the elders speak of black and not-black to me.” // \[59\] Now, the speech that is an indication of the one who bears the mark of Śrīvatsa, rich in various arrangements, should also be noted, as follows: / “I am skilled in needlework myself, and also, from observing others' arts, a seamstress. / I am a loving person; O cowherdess, look at the bodice upon your heart!” // “I am a female dyer here named Śyāmā, famed throughout the world; / she who wears my cloth, her heart-lotus's delight also unfolds.” // “You visibly seek to sell mirrors, bows, coral, and pearls; / but I, O woman of Vraja, ask to buy the hidden pair of caskets!” // “I am a slender woman skilled in massaging, desirous of attending upon you. / O fortunate one, the joy born of a fraction of my touch surpasses the bliss of Brahman!” // \[60\] And when that occurred: / Approaching Keśava, who was dressed / like a female bangle-maker, certain \[gopīs\] / performed favorable and adverse deeds, / which we surely shall not speak of in an assembly! // After Murāri went to the Ambikā forest, / which was characterized by the dark fortnight, / if that which occurred was not decreed \[by destiny\], / he accomplished that abundant sweet wish! // \[61\] That being so: / Becoming like a line of female bees born from the lotus of Kaṃsāri's heart, / the beloved women of Vraja clearly reached step by step, one after another, their ultimate place. / If it happened thus, we do not speak of it with doubt: / our insistence here is that Rādhā indeed reached the position of the pericarp! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.27.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.krsna.gopalacampu.1.27.29) - [Next: 1.27.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.krsna.gopalacampu.1.27.31) - [Up: 1.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.krsna.gopalacampu.1.27) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.krsna.gopalacampu~en-mt.1.27.30) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.krsna.gopalacampu.1.27.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.krsna.gopalacampu.1.27.30) · Pramāṇa