ශ්ලෝකඃ
ආනංදරූප භගවන්නයි තේऽවතාරේ
ප්රාප්තේ ප්රදීප්තභවදංගනිරීයමාණෛඃ ।
කාංතිව්රජෛරිව ඝනාඝනමංඩලෛර්ද්යා-
මාවෘණ්වතී විරුරුචේ කිල වර්ෂවේලා ॥1॥
Meaning
ආනංද-රූප - Bliss personified; භගවන්-අයි - O Lord! Thou; තේ-අවතාරේ ප්රාප්තේ - (when) Thy incarnation approached; ප්රදීප්ත-භවත්-අංග- - lustrous Thy body; නිරීයමාණෛඃ - emanating; කාංති-ව්රජෛඃ-ඉව - rays of brilliance like; ඝනාඝන-මංඩලෛඃ- - by groups of thick dark clouds; ද්යාම්-ආවෘණ්වතී - the skies covering; විරුරුචේ කිල වර්ෂවේලා - shone indeed the rainy season;
Translation
Thou O Lord! Who are Bliss personified, when the time of Thy incarnation approached, the rainy season indeed shone with the lustre of Thy body, which emanated the blue rays of brilliance on the thick dark clouds that covered the skies.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
ආශාසු ශීතලතරාසු පයෝදතෝයෛ-
රාශාසිතාප්තිවිවශේෂු ච සජ්ජනේෂු ।
නෛශාකරෝදයවිධෞ නිශි මධ්යමායාං
ක්ලේශාපහස්ත්රිජගතාං ත්වමිහාවිරාසීඃ ॥2॥
Meaning
ආශාසු - (when) all the directions; ශීතලතරාසු - had been cooled well; පයෝදතෝයෛඃ- - by the rain waters; ආශාසිත- - what was desired for; ආප්ති-විවශේෂු - (when) it was got, overwhelmed (by it); ච සජ්ජනේෂු - by the good people; නෛශාකර-උදය-විධෞ - and when the moon was rising; නිශි මධ්යමායාං - at midnight; ක්ලේශාපහඃ- ත්රිජගතාං - the Remover of the sorrows of the three worlds; ත්වම්- - Thou; ඉහ-ආවිරාසීඃ - here ( on this earth) did appear;
Translation
When all the directions had been well cooled by the rain waters, when the virtuous people were overwhelmed with the joy of the impending fulfillment of their desires, and the moon was rising at midnight, Thou the remover of all sorrows, appeared here on this earth, embodied as Krishna.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
බාල්යස්පෘශාऽපි වපුෂා දධුෂා විභූතී-
රුද්යත්කිරීටකටකාංගදහාරභාසා ।
ශංඛාරිවාරිජගදාපරිභාසිතේන
මේඝාසිතේන පරිලේසිථ සූතිගේහේ ॥3॥
Meaning
බාල්ය-ස්පෘශා-අපි - though in the form of a child; වපුෂා - by body; දධුෂා විභූතීඃ- - Thou adorned the divine majesties; උද්යත්-කිරීට- - shining crown; කටක-අංගද- - bracelets, shoulder ornaments; හාර් භාසා - beautiful necklace; ශංඛ-අරි- - conch, discus; වාරිජ-ගදා - lotus mace; පරිභාසිතේන මේඝාසිතේන - beautiful like the hue of rain bearing blue clouds; පරිලේසිථ - Thou shone; සූති ගේහේ - in the birth chamber;
Translation
Thou shone in the birth chamber, though in the from of a child, with Thy body adorned with the divine majesties, shining crown, bracelets, shoulder ornaments, beautiful necklace, conch, discus, lotus, mace, beautiful as the hue of the rain bearing clouds.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
වක්ෂඃස්ථලීසුඛනිලීනවිලාසිලක්ෂ්මී-
මංදාක්ෂලක්ෂිතකටාක්ෂවිමෝක්ෂභේදෛඃ ।
තන්මංදිරස්ය ඛලකංසකෘතාමලක්ෂ්මී-
මුන්මාර්ජයන්නිව විරේජිථ වාසුදේව ॥4॥
Meaning
වක්ෂඃ-ස්ථලී- - on Thy bosom; සුඛ-නිලීන- - comfortably resting; විලාසි-ලක්ෂ්මී- - the glorious Lakshmi; මංද-අක්ෂ-ලක්ෂිත- - casting with shyful eyes; කටාක්ෂ-විමෝක්ෂ-භේදෛඃ - the side-glances glancing; තත්-මංදිරස්ය - of that house (the prison); ඛල-කංස-කෘතාම්-අලක්ෂ්මීම්- - the inauspiciousness caused by the evil Kansa; උන්මාර්ජයන්-ඉව - dispersing away ,as though; විරේජිථ වාසුදේව - Thou did shine O Vaasudeva!;
Translation
O Vaasudeva! Thou did shine in that prison house with the glorious Lakshmi Devi comfortably resting on Thy bosom. The side glances of varied graces, with shyful eyes, cast by her, dispersed away the inauspiciousness of the prison caused by the wicked Kansa.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
ශෞරිස්තු ධීරමුනිමංඩලචේතසෝऽපි
දූරස්ථිතං වපුරුදීක්ෂ්ය නිජේක්ෂණාභ්යාම් ॥
ආනංදවාෂ්පපුලකෝද්ගමගද්ගදාර්ද්ර-
ස්තුෂ්ටාව දෘෂ්ටිමකරංදරසං භවංතම් ॥5॥
Meaning
ශෞරිඃ-තු - Vasudeva indeed,; ධීර-මුනි-මංඩල- - the group of sages; චේතසඃ-අපි - to their minds also; දූරස්ථිතං - unapproachable; වපුඃ-උදීක්ෂ්ය - Thy form, on seeing; නිජ-ඊක්ෂණාභාම් - by his own eyes; ආනංද-වාෂ්ප- - (with) tears of joy; පුලක-උද්ගම- - horripilation; ගද-ගද-ආර්ද්රඃ- - choked and melting voice; තුෂ්ටාව දෘෂ්ටි- - sang Thy praises, for the sight (Thou who are); මකරංද-රසං භවංතම් - nectar-like as for the bee.;
Translation
Thy form which is unapproachable to the minds of many aspiring sages, when Vasudeva saw with his own eyes, he had horripilation all over his body, his eyes were full of tears of joy and with a choked and melting voice he sang Thy prises, whose sight is like nectar honey for the bee like eyes.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
දේව ප්රසීද පරපූරුෂ තාපවල්ලී-
නිර්ලූනදාත්රසමනේත්රකලාවිලාසින් ।
ඛේදානපාකුරු කෘපාගුරුභිඃ කටාක්ෂෛ-
රිත්යාදි තේන මුදිතේන චිරං නුතෝऽභූඃ ॥6॥
Meaning
දේව ප්රසීද - O Lord! Be pleased; පරපූරුෂ - O Supreme being!; තාපවල්ලී- - the creeper of all sorrows; නිර්ලූන-දාත්ර-සම- - cutting down with sharp sword like; නේත්ර-කලා-විලාසින් - with playful eyes; ඛේදාන්-අපාකුරු - remove all sufferings; කෘපා-ගුරුභිඃ කටාක්ෂෛඃ- - laden with compassion, by the side glances; ඉත්යාදි තේන මුදිතේන - thus by him (Vasudeva), who was filled with joy; චිරං නුතෝ-අභූඃ - for a long time, Thou were praised;
Translation
Thou were praised with prayers for a long time by Vasudeva who was filled with joy, saying that 'O Lord! cut down the creeper of all my sorrows with Thy sharp sword like playful eyes. O Supreme Being! Remove all my sufferings with Thy side glances laden with compassion.'
ශ්ලෝකඃ
මාත්රා ච නේත්රසලිලාස්තෘතගාත්රවල්යා
ස්තෝත්රෛරභිෂ්ටුතගුණඃ කරුණාලයස්ත්වම් ।
ප්රාචීනජන්මයුගලං ප්රතිබෝධ්ය තාභ්යාං
මාතුර්ගිරා දධිථ මානුෂබාලවේෂම් ॥7॥
Meaning
මාත්රා ච නේත්ර-සලිල- - and by Thy mother's (Devaki), tears; ආස්තෘත-ගාත්ර-වල්යා - was covered well the body delicate creeper like; ස්තෝත්රෛඃ-අභිෂ්ටුත-ගුණඃ - by hymns (Thee whose) excellences were praised; කරුණාලයඃ- ත්වම් - Thou the abode of mercy; ප්රාචීන-ජන්ම-යුගලං - (about) their two previous births; ප්රතිබෝධ්ය තාභ්යාං - explained the two of them; මාතුඃ-ගිරා දධිථ - at the request of Thy mother assumed; මානුෂ-බාල-වේෂම් - the form of a human child;
Translation
And by Thy mother Devaki's tears whose delicate creeper like body was covered and made wet , Thy excellences were praised by hymns. Thou, the abode of mercy, then explained to them,Thy parents, about their two previous births. Then at the request of Thy mother Devaki, Thou assumed the form of a human infant child.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
ත්වත්ප්රේරිතස්තදනු නංදතනූජයා තේ
ව්යත්යාසමාරචයිතුං ස හි ශූරසූනුඃ ।
ත්වාං හස්තයෝරධෘත චිත්තවිධාර්යමාර්යෛ-
රංභෝරුහස්ථකලහංසකිශෝරරම්යම් ॥8॥
Meaning
ත්වත්-ප්රේරිතඃ-තදනු - by Thee prompted, then; නංද-තනූජයා - with the daughter of Nanda; තේ ව්යත්යාසම්-ආරචයිතුම් - Thy inter-exchange to carry out; ස හි ශූරසූනුඃ - indeed, he the son of Shoorasena (Vasudeva); ත්වාං හස්ථයෝඃ-අධෘත - Thee in his two hands took; චිත්ත-විධාර්යම්-ආර්යෛඃ- - by the minds of the sages conceivable only (as though); අංභෝරුහ-ස්ථ- - on a lotus sitting; කල-හංස-කිශෝර-රම්යම් - a swan young and beautiful;
Translation
At Thy prompting, in order to bring about Thy inter-exchanging with the daughter of Nanda, the son of Shoorasena Vasudeva took Thee in his two hands. Thou who can only be conceived in the minds of the sages, in Vasudeva's hands looked like an attractive young swan perched on a lotus.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
ජාතා තදා පශුපසද්මනි යෝගනිද්රා ।
නිද්රාවිමුද්රිතමථාකෘත පෞරලෝකම් ।
ත්වත්ප්රේරණාත් කිමිව චිත්රමචේතනෛර්යද්-
ද්වාරෛඃ ස්වයං ව්යඝටි සංඝටිතෛඃ සුගාඪම් ॥9॥
Meaning
ජාතා තදා - was born then; පශුප-සද්මනි - in the house of the cowherd (Nanda); යෝග-නිද්රා - Yoga-Maayaa; නිද්රා-විමුද්රිතම්- - in deep slumber; අථ-අකෘත පෞර-ලෝකම් - thereafter, caused the people of the region; ත්වත්-ප්රේරණාත් - at Thy behest; කිම්-ඉව චිත්රම්- - what is so surprising in this; අචේතනෛඃ-යත්-ද්වාරෛඃ - when the inanimate doors; ස්වයං ව්යඝටි - opened by themselves; සංඝටිතෛඃ සුගාඪම් - which were closed very well;
Translation
Thereafter, at Thy behest, Yoga-Maayaa, who was born in the house of Nandagopa, caused all the people in the region to fall into deep slumber. This is not at all surprising, considering that the well locked inanimate doors of the prison opened by themselves.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
ශේෂේණ භූරිඵණවාරිතවාරිණාऽථ
ස්වෛරං ප්රදර්ශිතපථෝ මණිදීපිතේන ।
ත්වාං ධාරයන් ස ඛලු ධන්යතමඃ ප්රතස්ථේ
සෝऽයං ත්වමීශ මම නාශය රෝගවේගාන් ॥10॥
Meaning
ශේෂේණ භූරි-ඵණ-වාරිත - by Aadi Shesha's many hoods the warded off (waters); වාරිණා-අථ ස්වෛරම් - the waters then comfortably; ප්රදර්ශිත-පථඃ - led along the way; මණි-දීපිතේන - enlightened by the gems (on the hood of Aadi Shesha); ත්වාං ධාරයන් - carrying Thee; ස ඛලු ධන්යතමඃ - indeed he the most blessed one; ප්රතස්ථේ - set out; සඃ-අයං ත්වම්-ඊශ - That This Thou O Lord!; මම නාශය රෝගා-වේගාන් - eradicate the force of my ailments;
Translation
He, Vasudeva, the most blessed one set out carrying Thee in his hands. Aadi Shesha with his many hoods warded off the rain waters and led along the way by him with the gems on his hood s enlightening the way. O Lord! Of such exceeding prowess deign to save me from my forceful ailments.
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