Rajput Painting, Being an Account of the Hindu Paintings of Rajasthan and the Panjab Himalayas from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century v2.c19.472

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‘Śrī Rādhikā Jī, feeling excessive delight with Hari, and thinking her lover in her power, fancying herself greater than all, and conceit in her heart, said, “O beloved one! now I may go no farther, set me upon your shoulder and bear me along.” On hearing this, Śrī Krishna Chand, the destroyer of pride and knower of secrets, smiled and seated himself, and said, “Pray come and get on to my shoulder”. But when she had stretched forth her hand, and was about to ascend, Śrī Krishna vanished. As her hands were outstretched, so with extended hands she remained standing; just as, for pride, the lightning may be divided from the cloud, or the moonlight, taking offence at the moon may linger behind: and the radiance of her fair form, emerging and spreading over the earth, gave out such beauty as though she stood on a ground of beautiful gold. A stream of tears was flowing from her eyes; and she could not drive away even those bees near her face, who, attracted by the sweet savour, kept coming again and again to settle upon it; and heaving great sighs for her separation, she stood alone in the forest, so that all beasts and birds and trees and climbing plants hearing the sound of her sobs, were crying too.