Gopalacampu 1.29.7
Gopālacampū 1.29.7
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1.29.7
[8] yadā hi citrāyuta-pūrṇa-candrāṃ pūrṇimām anu turṇita-cetāḥ sva-sukha-vardhana-govardhana-vilokana-kāmanayā śrī-rāma-kaniṣṭhaḥ kiṃcid dūraṃ praviṣṭa āsīt | tataś ca-
bhū-kampa-kramaṇān mahīdhra-calanaṃ tasyāgater vāri-bhṛd-
vikṣobhaṃ nadanān niśācara-varaṃ vaikṛtyabhāg-ākṛteḥ | tad-rūpādri-viniścayaṃ kakudi vār-mug-vṛnda-saṅghaṭṭanād unnīya vrajaga-prajā diśi diśi drāk kāndiśīkyaṃ gatāḥ || kiṃcit kiṃcin mūtraṇād āpagānāṃ
gūtha-tyāgād gaṇḍa-śailāvalīnām | sṛṣṭiṃ kartā paśyatāriṣṭa-nāmā
devāriṣṭaḥ parvatātmā pratītaḥ || vṛṣa-dambhī sa-saṃrambhaṃ rambhaṇaṃ yad-vyadhād asau | tenāsīd vyakta-sandarbhaḥ svayaṃ go-garbha-pātinā || vapraṃ yadāpaskirate sma śṛṅgā-
dibhir vikurvāṇatā vṛṣaḥ saḥ | tadākhilaṃ gokulam āśu mṛdbhiḥ
pracchannam āsīd vana-maṇḍalaṃ ca || yatra tatra khuram ādadhāti
sa kṣmāpi tatra valate vidīrṇatām | netra-tulya-vilataḥ samucchritaṃ
vāri rodana-nibhaṃ bibharti ca || [9] tatra lokānāṃ vacanaṃ-
[8] For at that time, his mind fluttering on the full moon day endowed with the star Citrā, the younger brother of Śrī Rāma had gone a little distance away out of a desire to gaze upon Govardhana, which increases his joy. And then—
Inferring that it was an earthquake from the shuddering of the mountains caused by his tread, a storm cloud from his roar, the foremost of night-roamers from his deformed shape, and indeed a mountain of that very form because a multitude of rain-clouds collided with his hump, the subjects of Vraja immediately took flight in every direction in panic. ||
From his slightly and continuously urinating rivers,
and from his dropping dung, rows of boulder-cliffs,
Ariṣṭa by name, the misfortune of the gods, who was creating [all this] before their very eyes,
was perceived to be the very embodiment of a mountain. ||
Because he, feigning to be a bull, uttered a lowing with violent fury,
its clear content was made plain
by that very causer of bovine miscarriages. ||
When that bull, showing his altered state,
began to dig up the ridge with his horns and hooves,
the entire Gokula and the circle of forests
were immediately blanketed with dust. ||
Wherever he set down his hoof,
there the very earth tore open;
and water, rising up from a cavern like an eye,
bore the semblance of weeping. ||
[9] There the words of the people were:
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