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2. yam dhrshtvaa yamunaam pipaasuH aniSam

vyooho

gavaam gaahathe

vidhyuthvaan ithi neelakanTanivaho

yam

dhrashtum uthkanTathe

utthamsaaya thamaalapallavam ithi

cChindhanthi yam gopikaaH

kanthiH

kaaliyaSaasanasya vapushaH

saa

paavanee paathu naH

 

Seeing

the light of whose body the thirsty cows take it to be the river yamuna and try

to enter, the peacocks become eager thisnking that it is the rainbearing cloud

and the gopis see it as the green sprouts

of thmalar tree and start picking it, may that light of the body of Krishna protect us.

 

The

dark hue of the body of Krishna is emitting waves of light, vapushaH kaanthiH and the herd of the

cows, gavaam vyoohaH msee it as the river Yamuna, dhrshtvaa yamunaam.

Being thirsty, pipaasuH, they try to

enter, gaahathe the river. To

the peacocks, neelakantanivahaH

it looks like the rainbearing cloud, vidhyuthvaan

ithi and they are eager to enjoy the

rain and start dancing. The gopis take the encompassing light as the sprouts of

thamala tree, thamaalapallvam ith and try to pick, cChindhanthi, the sprouts.

 

Leela

suka calls Krishna as kaliyaSaasana,

the one who punished the serpent Kaliya.

 

This

sloka describes the dark hue of Krishna which is

lustrous like a dark moon (krshnachandra) as Leelasuka describes him

elsewhere.(KKpart1-sloka25)

 

3.dhevaH paayaan payasi vimale

yaamune majjatheenaam

yaachantheenaam anunayapadhaiH vanchithaani amSukaani

lajjaa lolaiH alasavilasaiHunmishathpanchabaanaiH

gopasthreeNaam nayankusumaiH archithaH keSavo naH

May

the Lord Kesava , who was entreated with sweet words by gopis, to give them their

clothes stealthily taken by him while they were bathing the river Yamuna, who was worshipped by their

bashful, loving and stealthy glances,

protect us.

 

Krishna took away the clothes of the gopis, vanchithaani amSukaani,

who were bathing in the pure stream of

Yamuna, vimale yamune.. They entreated, yaachantheenaam,

him with coaxing words, anunayapadhaiH,

to return them. He gave them only his smile. By that the gopis were smitten

with love, unmishath panchabaaNaiH and started sending

stealthy glances, alasavilasaiH, due

to their bashfulness, lajjaalolaiH,

of their condition and Krishna, says Leelasuka was worshipped by their eyes with

their glances as the flowers, nayanakusumaiH

archithaH..

 

The

significance of this episode will be elaborated in a later sloka. (No.8), and

it is enough to mention here that all the leelas of Brindavan were finished by

the time Krishna attained the age ten.

 

4. maathaH na athaH param

anuchitham

yath khalaanaam purasthaath

asthaaSankam jaTarapiTaree

poorthaye narthithaa asi

thath kshanthavyam sahajasaralE

vathsale vaaNi kuryaam

prayaschittham guNagaNanayaa

gopaveshasya vishNoH

 

Oh mother, Goddess Saravathi, vaani, who is gentle by nature, sahjasarale, who has love towards her children, vathsale, there is nothing more

improper, na athaH param anuchitham, than making you dance in

front, narththaa asi of mean people, khalaanaam purasthaath, just to fill my stomach, jaTarapiTare, without any hesitation, astha aSankam. Please

forgive me, kshanthavyam. I am

atoning the sin, praayaschittham kuryaam

by speaking about the auspicious qualities, guNagaNanayaa, of Lord

Vishnu who had come in the guise of a gopa, gopaveshasaya vishNoH.

 

Leelasuka repents that he has been composing poems and

praising the wicked and thus abusing the speech which is Sarasvathi herself. So

he asks the forgiveness saying that he was using her as if making her dance in

front of the wicked just to make his living. He says that the atonement of this

sin is only to speak about the Lord who has incarnated as Krishna. This does not mean that

Leelasuka was really doing all this but it is for the purpose of the people of

the worlds to show that to praise the Lord is alone the means of atoning the

various services we have to do in the world to please others, for the sake of

worldly enjoyment.

 

 

5.angulyagraiH

aruNakiranaiH mukthasamrudDharanDhram

vaaram vaaram

vadhanamarythaavenumaapooryantham vyasthyasthaanGhrim vikachakamalacChaayavisthaaranethram

vandhe

brndhaavansucharitham nandhagopalasoonum

 

I bow down to the son of Nanda, who, is repeatedly opens

and closes the holes of the flute with his red fingertips, and fills the flute with the air from his mouth

with his feet crossed one over the other.

 

Krishna is playing the flute and the

scene is described by Leelasuka. He is continuously opening and closing the

holes, vaaram vaaram mukthasamrudDharanDhram, of the flute in the process of

playing and blows into the flute, vadhana

maruthaa aapoorayantham, to make the sound. His feet are crossed one over

the other, vyasthyasayapaadham in

standing posture and his finger tips playing he flute are emitting rays of red

colour , angulayagraiH arunakiranaiH.

 

Reading this we can visualize the form of Krishna

playing the flute of which Periazvar has composed ten beautiful verses.

 

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