Gopalacampu 1.29.17

1.29.17

[23] śaraṇāntarāt punar yāvan niḥsarati sa eṣa śaraṇāgatāyāgatānusaraṇaḥ | tad evaṃ yadā niḥsarati niḥsṛtya ca gopa-gogaṇa-sañcaraṇāya veṇuṃ raṇayati | tadātanaṃ caritaṃ gocaratām aticarad api nija-bhāva-prabhāva-sampadā cakṣuṣīva racitaṃ vidhāya śrīmad-ābhīra-bhīrubhir abhigītam, yathā-
avadhāraya sakhi tava sakhi-vṛttam | virahi-janānāṃ janayati hṛdayam vidayatayā bata kṛttam |
[dhruvam idaṃ paraparatrāpi |]
vāma-bhujākṛta-vāma-kapolakam ullala-cilli-bhāsam | sukumārāṅguli-vilasitam ujjvala-veṇu-mukhaṃ mṛdu-hāsam ||rāga-kalā-kulitākhila-bhūcara-gāna-kalair anuviddham | vyomaga-yāna-janījana-mohanam anugamitākhila-siddham || [24] tataś ca muhur api tāvan mātre tāsāṃ gāna-pātre sati vana-vrajayor madhyam adhyāsya harṣaṃ tarṣaṃ ca dhāsyan vaṃśaṃ śaṃsayati sma | [25] tatra ca tābhir gītaṃ, yathā-
citraṃ lakṣmī-rekhāsau hṛdi capalā na bhavati capalā | maṇim ambara-maṇim anu tārāvalir api sā rājāti taralā ||yasya sa cāyaṃ veṇu-kalāmṛta-varṣī kalayati gavyām | sa-tṛṇaka-daśanām unnata-karṇāmatrām arthiṣu bhavyām ||[25] tataścātuccha-piccha-guluccha-puṣpa-guccha-dhātu-cchavibhir malla-paricchadaṃ gacchati sma śrī-gopikānāṃ pracchanna-ramaṇaḥ |

[23] Again, as soon as He emerges from another shelter, He who pursues those who have taken refuge in Him emerges. Thus, when He comes out, having come out He sounds His flute to lead the cows and cowherds out to pasture. Although His pastimes at that time surpassed the realm of physical sight, through the richness of the power of their love, making it as if present right before their eyes, the timid, beautiful cowherd women sang of it, thus:
"Consider, O friend, the conduct of your friend!
Alas, it makes the heart of separated lovers severed without mercy!
[This is the refrain for subsequent verses as well.]
His left cheek rests on His left arm, the radiance of His eyebrows arches high,
His brilliant flute-mouth is adorned by delicate fingers, and He wears a gentle smile;
pervaded by the art of song that agitates all earth-dwellers with artistic melodies,
He enchants the women travelling in the sky and has attracted all the Siddhas."
[24] And then, while He was repeatedly the sole object of their song, remaining between the forest and Vraja, wishing to bestow joy and longing, He played upon the flute. [25] And there they sang, thus:
"O wonder! This streak of Lakṣmī upon His chest, though fickle by nature, is not fickle;
behind that jewel, the sun, that streak of stars also shines, trembling!
He who possesses these, raining the nectar of the musical flute, gathers the cows,
having blades of grass between their teeth, holding up their ear-vessels, auspicious to those who desire them."
[26] And then, with magnificent peacock feathers, clusters of flowers, and the tints of mineral pigments, the secret lover of the cowherdesses assumed the attire of a wrestler.