ශ්ලෝකඃ
ව්රජේශ්වරෛඃ ශෞරිවචෝ නිශම්ය සමාව්රජන්නධ්වනි භීතචේතාඃ ।
නිෂ්පිෂ්ටනිශ්ශේෂතරුං නිරීක්ෂ්ය කංචිත්පදාර්ථං ශරණං ගතස්වාම් ॥1॥
Meaning
ව්රජේශ්වරඃ - the chieftain of Vraja (Nanda Gopa); ශෞරි-වචඃ නිශම්ය - the words of Vasudeva having heard; සමාව්රජන්-අධ්වනි - returning on the way; භීත-චේතාඃ - in utter fear (seeing); නිෂ්පිෂ්ට-නිශ්ශේෂ-තරුම් - crushed all the trees; නිරීක්ෂ්ය කිංචිත්-පදාර්ථම් - seeing (by) some indescribable object; ශරණං ගතඃ-ත්වාම් - took refuge in Thee (prayed to Thee);
Translation
The chieftain of Vraja, Nanda Gopa, having heard the words of Vasudeva, was returning home in a hurry. On the way he saw an indescribable form falling down and crushing all the trees around. In utter fear he took refuge in Thee and prayed to Thee.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
නිශම්ය ගෝපීවචනාදුදංතං සර්වේऽපි ගෝපා භයවිස්මයාංධාඃ ।
ත්වත්පාතිතං ඝෝරපිශාචදේහං දේහුර්විදූරේऽථ කුඨාරකෘත්තම් ॥2॥
Meaning
නිශම්ය ගෝපී-වචනාත් - hearing, by the words of the Gopikas; උදංතම් - the news (story of Pootanaa); සර්වේ-අපි ගෝපාඃ - all the Gopas; භය-විස්මය-අංධාඃ - by fear and wonder dumbfounded; ත්වත්-පාතිතම් - felled by Thee; ඝෝර-පිශාච-දේහම් - the terrible monster's (Pootanaa's) body; දේහුඃ-විදූරේ-අථ - burnt far away, then,; කුඨාර-කෘත්තම් - (the body) by axes cut (into pieces);
Translation
The Gopas came to know of the whole incident of Pootanaa from the Gopikas and they were dumbfounded with fear and wonder. They then proceeded to cut the body of the terrible monster who was killed by Thee, into pieces with axes and burnt it at a distance.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
ත්වත්පීතපූතස්තනතච්ඡරීරාත් සමුච්චලන්නුච්චතරෝ හි ධූමඃ ।
ශංකාමධාදාගරවඃ කිමේෂ කිං චාංදනෝ ගෞල්ගුලවෝऽථවේති ॥3॥
Meaning
ත්වත්-පීත-පූත-ස්තන- - by Thee sucked, the purified breasts, from (them); තත්-ශරීරාත් සමුච්චලන්- - (from that body) rising up profusely; උච්චතරඃ හි ධූමඃ - high up indeed the smoke; ශංකාම්-අධාත්- - (made) doubt to arise; අගරවඃ කිම්-ඒෂ - (smell) of agaru is this,; කිං චාංදනඃ - (or) is it sandalwood; ගෞල්ගුලවඃ-අථවා- - or from gulgulu (frankincense); ඉති - thus (the doubt);
Translation
The breasts of Pootanaa were made pure by Thy having sucked them. Therefore, when her body was burnt, huge volumes of smoke rose in the sky, so fragrant that it produced doubt in the minds of the people as to what it was - agaru, sandalwood, or gulgulu (frankincense) incense.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
මදංගසංගස්ය ඵලං න දූරේ ක්ෂණේන තාවත් භවතාමපි ස්යාත් ।
ඉත්යුල්ලපන් වල්ලවතල්ලජේභ්යඃ ත්වං පූතනාමාතනුථාඃ සුගංධිම් ॥4॥
Meaning
මත්-අංග-සංගස්ය - of my body's contact; ඵලං න දූරේ - the fruit is not far; ක්ෂණේන තාවත් - in no time then; භවතාම්-අපි ස්යාත් - to you also will be (given); ඉති-උල්ලපන් - thus saying (declaring); වල්ලව-තල්ලජේභ්යඃ - to the higher ones of the cow-herds; ත්වම් - Thou; පූතනාම්-අතනුථාඃ - on Pootanaa conferred; සුගංධිම් - fragrance (punya) (blessings);
Translation
Thou declared to the higher ones of the cowherd clan that the fruits of the contact with Thy body were not far behind, and that they too would get them soon. The conferring of fragrance / blessings on Pootanaa was, as though, to prove that.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
චිත්රං පිශාච්යා න හතඃ කුමාරඃ චිත්රං පුරෛවාකථි ශෞරිණේදම් ।
ඉති ප්රශංසන් කිල ගෝපලෝකෝ භවන්මුඛාලෝකරසේ න්යමාංක්ෂීත් ॥5॥
Meaning
චිත්රං පිශාච්යා - what a wonder, by the demoness; න හතඃ කුමාරඃ - was not killed the boy; චිත්රං පුරා-ඒව- - what a wonder earlier itself; අකථි ශෞරිණා-ඉදම් - it was said by Shauri (Vasudeva), this; ඉති ප්රශංසන් - thus praising; කිල ගෝපලෝකඃ - the cowherd people; භවත්-මුඛ-ආලෝක-රසේ - in the joy of looking at Thy face; න්යමාංක්ෂීත් - immersed;
Translation
The cowherd people were wonder struck that the boy was not killed by the demoness. They also marvelled at the events foretold by Shauri Vasudeva. Realising this, they were fully immersed in the joy of looking at Thy face.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
දිනේදිනේऽථ ප්රතිවෘද්ධලක්ෂ්මීරක්ෂීණමාංගල්යශතෝ ව්රජෝऽයම් ।
භවන්නිවාසාදයි වාසුදේව ප්රමෝදසාංද්රඃ පරිතෝ විරේජේ ॥6॥
Meaning
දිනේ-දිනේ-අථ - day by day then; ප්රති-වෘද්ධ-ලක්ෂ්මීඃ- - increasing in prosperity; අක්ෂීණ-මාංගල්ය-ශතඃ - (and) undiminished in numerous auspiciousness; ව්රජඃ-අයම් - Gokul this; භවත්-නිවාසාත්- - by Thy living there; අයි වාසුදේව - O Vaasudeva!; ප්රමෝද-සාංද්රඃ - full of happiness; පරිතඃ විරේජේ - every where shone;
Translation
O Vaasudeva! Day by day this Gokul developed with prosperity and undiminished auspiciousness as a result of Thy living there. Happiness and undecaying virtue shone everywhere.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
ගෘහේෂු තේ කෝමලරූපහාසමිථඃකථාසංකුලිතාඃ කමන්යඃ ।
වෘත්තේෂු කෘත්යේෂු භවන්නිරීක්ෂාසමාගතාඃ ප්රත්යහමත්යනංදන් ॥7॥
Meaning
ගෘහේෂු - in (their) house; තේ කෝමල-රූප-හාස- - Thy delicate form and smile; මිථඃ-කථා-සංකුලිතාඃ - mutually narrated, gathering together; කමන්යඃ - the beautiful (Gopikas); වෘත්තේෂු කෘත්යේෂු - having completed their daily chores; භවත්-නිරීක්ෂා-සමාගතාඃ - to watch Thee, assembled; ප්රති-අහන්-අති-අනංදන් - every day, in great joy;
Translation
In their houses the beautiful Gopikas kept talking to each other about Thy charming form and smile. Having completed their daily chores they assembled in great joy to watch Thee.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
අහෝ කුමාරෝ මයි දත්තදෘෂ්ටිඃ ස්මිතං කෘතං මාං ප්රති වත්සකේන ।
ඒහ්යේහි මාමිත්යුපසාර්ය පාණී ත්වයීශ කිං කිං න කෘතං වධූභිඃ ॥8॥
Meaning
අහෝ කුමාරඃ - O! the boy; මයි දත්ත-දෘෂ්ටිඃ - at me looked; ස්මිතං කෘතං මාං ප්රති - smile was made in my direction; වත්සකේන - by the child; ඒහි-ඒහි මාම්-ඉති - come come to me, thus; උපසාර්ය පාණී - stretching out the hands; ත්වයි-ඊශ - towards Thee O Lord!; කිං කිං න කෘතං වධූභිඃ - what all was not done by the women;
Translation
O the boy is looking at me,' 'his smile is directed towards me', 'come, come to me', thus remarking they stretched out their hands to hold Thee. O Lord! What all was not done by the Gopikas endearingly.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
භවද්වපුඃස්පර්ශනකෞතුකේන කරාත්කරං ගෝපවධූජනේන ।
නීතස්ත්වමාතාම්රසරෝජමාලාව්යාලංබිලෝලංබතුලාමලාසීඃ ॥9॥
Meaning
භවත්-වපුඃ- - Thy body; ස්පර්ශන-කෞතුකේන - in the eagerness to touch; කරාත්-කරං - from hand to hand; ගෝප-වධූ-ජනේන - by the Gopika women; නීතඃ-ත්වම්- - were taken Thou; ආතාම්ර-සරෝජ-මාලා- - very red lotus garland; ව්යාලංබි-ලෝලංබ- - (as though on it) moving about, a beetle; තුලාම්-අලාසීඃ - resemblance Thou took on;
Translation
They passed Thee from hand to hand, each one of them eager to touch Thy body. As they did so, Thou looked like a honey beetle moving from one very red lotus to another strung together in a garland.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
නිපායයංතී ස්තනමංකගං ත්වාං විලෝකයංතී වදනං හසංතී ।
දශාං යශෝදා කතමාං න භේජේ ස තාදෘශඃ පාහි හරේ ගදාන්මාම් ॥10॥
Meaning
නිපායයංතී ස්තනම්- - feeding the breasts; අංකගං ත්වාම් - to who were in the lap, Thee; විලෝකයංතී වදනම් - admiring the face; හසංතී - (and) smiling; දශාං යශෝදා කතමාං - states (of joy), Yashodaa, what all; න භේජේ - did not attain; ස තාදෘශඃ පාහි - That (Thee) who are such, save; හරේ ගදාන්-මාම් - O Lord Hari! Me from diseases;
Translation
O ! What states of joy did Yashodaa, Nanda's wife, not attain as she took Thee in her lap and suckled Thee, with her eyes fixed on Thy smiling face. O Lord Hari! Who are thus! May Thou save me from all ailments.
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