Contributed by Krishnaa Kinkari Devi
The padas translated take us through a day in the Beloveds’ Seva during Hori.
1] SRI VALLABHA PRATASMARAN – Morning Remembrance
2] JAGAYVE KE PADA – Wake up Songs
3] KALEVA KE PAD – Breakfast
4] MANGALA MEIN VASANTA – a Spring Morning
5] ULAHANE KE PAD – Complaints
6] PALANE KE PAD – Cradle Songs
7] MANGALA DARSHAN – Spring Morning Holy Sight
8] SRINGAR KE PAD – Adornment
9] RAJBHOG KHEL KE PAD – Play at lunchtime
10] AAVANI KE PAD – the Evening return
11] SANDHYA AARATI – Evening Lights
12] MAAN KE PAD – Annoyance in Love
13] SHAYAN DARSHAN KE PAD – Bedtime Vision
14] PODAVE KE PAD – Resting
15] ASHRAY EVAM ASHISH KE PAD – Surrender and Blessings
Pada: Rāga Vasaṁta
Poet: Krishnadas
खेलत बसंत निस पिय संग जागी ।
सखी वृंद गोकुल की सीमा
गिरिधर पिय पदरज अनुरागी ॥ १ ॥
नवल निकुंज में गुंजन मधुप पिक
विविध सुगंध छींट तन लागी ।
कृष्णदास स्वामिनी जुवती जुथ चुडामनि
रिझवत प्रान पति राधा बडभागी ॥ २ ॥
Khelata vasaṁta nisa piya saṁga jāḡī|
Sakhī vṛnda gokula kī sīmā
Giridhara piya padaraja anurāḡī ||1||
Navala nikuṁja meṁ guṁjata madhupa pika
Vividha sugaṁdha chīṁṭa tana lāgī |
Kṛṣnadāsa svāminī juvatī jūtha cuḍāmani
Rijhavata prāṇa pati rādhā baḍabāḡī ||2||
Having enjoyed this Vasanta Holi Play late into the night, now Sri Svaminiju wakes up together with Her Beloved. Her groups of Gopis stretch to the far limits of Vraja Gokul and they are all enamoured of the dust of the Lotus Feet of Sri Krishna, the Upholder of the Sri Girirajji Mountain. [1]
In that fresh Forest Bower bees buzz and cuckoos coo, whilst drops of water of various sweet scents touch Their bodies. The Poet Krishnadas says, “Most fortunate is Sri Radha, the only One Who can fully please Her Lord, Who is Her very life, Who is the crown jewel Supreme Queen of all the groups of these youthful Ladies. [2]
ULAHANE KE PAD
‘Complaints!’
“Ulahana” is a complaint or accusation. In the mangala period of the cold season appear the ‘khandita‘ padas, those expressing the breaking of a Beloved’s promise, those of their broken hearts, hearts that depend on the Lord for fulfillment. Here we see the same kind of mood. How could He dare to go and play Holi with another?
Pada: Rāga Vasaṁta
Poet: Surdas
सांची कहो मनमोहन मोसो
तो खेलों तुम संग होरी ।
आजु कि रैन कहाँ रहे मोहन
कहां करी बरजोरी ॥ १ ॥
मुख पर पीक पीठिपर कंकन
हियें हार विन डोरी ।
जियमें ओर ऊपर कछु औरे
चाल चलत कछु ओरी ॥ २ ॥
मोहि बतावत मोहन नागर
कहा मोहि जानत भोरी ।
भोर भये आये हों मोहन
बात कहत कछु जोरी ॥ ३ ॥
सूरदास प्रभु ऐसी न कीजे
आय मिलो कहा चोरी ।
मनमानें त्यों कत नंदसुत
अब आई हे होरी ॥ ४ ॥
Sāṁcī kaho manamohana moso
To kheloṁ tuma saṁga horī |
Āju ki raina kahāṁ rahe mohana
Kahāṁ karī barajorī ||1||
Mukha para pīka pīṭhipara kaṁkana
Hiyeṁ hāra vina ḍorī |
Jiyameṁ ora ūpara kachu aure
Cāla calata kachu orī ||2||
Mohi batāvata mohana nāgara
Kahā mohi jānata bhorī |
Bhora bhaye āye hoṁ mohana
Bāta kahata kachu jorī ||3||
Sūradāsa prabhu esī na kīje
Āya milo kahā corī |
Manamāneṁ tyoṁ kata naṁdasuta
Aba āī he horī ||4||
“Tell me truth, O, Krishna, Enchanter of my mind and heart; only then will I play Holi with You. Just where did you stay last night and whom were You with? ||1||
“Your face is stained with pink paan spittle. Your back is marked with the pressing of bangles against it and Your chest bears the impressions of necklace beads pressed hard into it. Your heart is in one place, Your appearance says something else and Your gait is frankly not normal!! ||2||
“You try to justify Yourself, O, Enchanter: do you think I am plain stupid? You come here in the morning and speak to me of togetherness.” ||3||
Surdas the Poet now recounts, “O, my Lord, please do not behave like this. Come, be with me, what is to lose? O, Son of Nanda, let’s do whatever we feel like, after all, it is Holi!!” ||4||
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