ශ්ලෝකඃ
තරලමධුකෘත් වෘංදේ වෘංදාවනේऽථ මනෝහරේ
පශුපශිශුභිඃ සාකං වත්සානුපාලනලෝලුපඃ ।
හලධරසඛෝ දේව ශ්රීමන් විචේරිථ ධාරයන්
ගවලමුරලීවේත්රං නේත්රාභිරාමතනුද්යුතිඃ ॥1॥
Meaning
තරල-මධුකෘත්-වෘංදේ - with fleeting honey bee swarms; වෘංදාවනේ-අථ - in Vrindaavana, then; මනෝහරේ - the beautiful one; පශුප-ශිශුභිඃ සාකං - with the cowherd boys; වත්ස-අනුපාලන-ලෝලුපඃ - in tending the calves engrossed; හලධර-සඛඃ - accompanied by Haladhara; දේව ශ්රීමන් - O Lord! Consort of Laxmi!; විචේරිථ ධාරයන් - (Thou) moved about carrying; ගවල-මුරලී-වේත්රං - a horn flute and cane; නේත්ර-අභිරාම-තනු-ද්යුතිඃ - pleasing to the eyes (with Thy) radiant form;
Translation
In the beautiful Vrindaavana swarms of honey bees would fleet around. There, O Auspicious Lord! Consort of Laxmi! Accompanied by Haladhara and other cowherd boys, Thou moved about with Thy radiant form pleasing to the eyes. Keen on tending the cows, Thou carried a horn, flute and a cane.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
විහිතජගතීරක්ෂං ලක්ෂ්මීකරාංබුජලාලිතං
දදති චරණද්වංද්වං වෘංදාවනේ ත්වයි පාවනේ ।
කිමිව න බභෞ සංපත්සංපූරිතං තරුවල්ලරී-
සලිලධරණීගෝත්රක්ෂේත්රාදිකං කමලාපතේ ॥2॥
Meaning
විහිත-ජගතී-රක්ෂං - infused with the protection of the world; ලක්ෂ්මී-කර-අංබුජ-ලාලිතං - by Laxmi's lotus like hands caressed; දදති චරණ-ද්වංද්වම් - (when Thou) places (Thy) two feet; වෘංදාවනේ ත්වයි පාවනේ - in Vrindaavana, by Thee, in the holy (Vrindaavana); කිම්-ඉව න බභෞ - what all did not take place; සංපත්-සංපූරිතං - with prosperity full of; තරු-වල්ලරී-සලිල- - the trees, creepers, waters; ධරණී-ගෝත්ර-ක්ෂේත්ර-ආදිකං - land, hills, and fields etc; කමලාපතේ - O Consort of Laxmi!;
Translation
O Consort of Laxmi! Thou set Thy two feet, which are caressed by Laxmi's lotus hands and which are infused with the protection of the world, in Vrindaavana. When Thou did so, the trees, creepers, waters, lands, hills and fields and what all was not full of prosperity!
ශ්ලෝකඃ
විලසදුලපේ කාංතාරාංතේ සමීරණශීතලේ
විපුලයමුනාතීරේ ගෝවර්ධනාචලමූර්ධසු ।
ලලිතමුරලීනාදඃ සංචාරයන් ඛලු වාත්සකං
ක්වචන දිවසේ දෛත්යං වත්සාකෘතිං ත්වමුදෛක්ෂථාඃ ॥3॥
Meaning
විලසත්-උලපේ - in the lavish grass meadows; කාංතාර-අංතේ - at the forests' end; සමීරණ-ශීතලේ - with cool breeze (blowing); විපුල-යමුනා-තීරේ - on the vast banks of Yamunaa; ගෝවර්ධන-අචල-මූර්ධසු - on the Govardhana mountain peaks; ලලිත-මුරලී-නාදඃ - with the gentle flute sound; සංචාරයන් ඛලු වාත්සකං - (leading) to graze the calves, indeed; ක්වචන දිවසේ - one day; දෛත්යං වත්ස-ආකෘතිම් - an Asura in the form of a calf; ත්වම්-උදෛක්ෂථාඃ - Thou saw;
Translation
In the lavish grass meadows at the end of the forests, the cool breeze was blowing on the vast banks of the Yamunaa river, on the peaks of the Govardhana mountain, Thou were playing the flute softly as Thou lead the calves to graze. One day, Thou saw an Asura in the form of a calf.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
රභසවිලසත්පුච්ඡං විච්ඡායතෝऽස්ය විලෝකයන්
කිමපි වලිතස්කංධං රංධ්රප්රතීක්ෂමුදීක්ෂිතම් ।
තමථ චරණේ බිභ්රද්විභ්රාමයන් මුහුරුච්චකෛඃ
කුහචන මහාවෘක්ෂේ චික්ෂේපිථ ක්ෂතජීවිතම් ॥4॥
Meaning
රභස-විලසත්-පුච්ඡං - with force wagging the tail; විච්ඡායතඃ- - while walking; අස්ය විලෝකයන් - his (calf's) gaze; කිම්-අපි වලිත-ස්කංධං - with somewhat turning his neck; රංධ්ර-ප්රතීක්ෂම්-උදීක්ෂිතම් - for a loop hole waiting to see; තම්-අථ චරණේ - him, then with two legs; විභ්රත්-විභ්රාමයන් - catching hold of and swirling; මුහුඃ-උච්චකෛඃ - again and again very fast; කුහචන මහාවෘක්ෂේ - on a big tree; චික්ෂේපිථ ක්ෂත-ජීවිතම් - (Thou) threw, as he lost his life;
Translation
As the Asura walked about, wagging its tail briskly and forcefully, it turned its head in a strange way looking for a loop hole (an opportunity) to strike. Thou caught him by his two legs and swirling him very fast again and again, threw him on a big tree just as he lost his life.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
නිපතති මහාදෛත්යේ ජාත්යා දුරාත්මනි තත්ක්ෂණං
නිපතනජවක්ෂුණ්ණක්ෂෝණීරුහක්ෂතකානනේ ।
දිවි පරිමිලත් වෘංදා වෘංදාරකාඃ කුසුමෝත්කරෛඃ
ශිරසි භවතෝ හර්ෂාද්වර්ෂංති නාම තදා හරේ ॥5॥
Meaning
නිපතති මහා-දෛත්යේ - (when) killed was the mighty Asura; ජාත්යා දුරාත්මනි - (who) by birth was evil minded; තත්-ක්ෂණම් - then at that time; නිපතන-ජව- - (because of) the falling force; ක්ෂුණ්ණ-ක්ෂෝණීඃ- - by breaking of the top of; උහ-ක්ෂත-කානනේ - the trees (and so) destroyed the forests; දිවි පරිමිලත් වෘංදා - in the skies, the assembled groups; වෘංදාරකාඃ - of gods; කුසුම-උත්කරෛඃ - with flowers' heaps; ශිරසි භවතඃ - on Thy head; හර්ෂාත්-වර්ෂංති - with joy, showering; නාම තදා හරේ - indeed, then, O God!;
Translation
By the impact of the fall of the Asura who was evil minded by birth, the tops of the trees were broken and the forests were destroyed. O God! The gods then assembling in the skies showered heaps of flowers on Thy head, in joy.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
සුරභිලතමා මූර්ධන්යූර්ධ්වං කුතඃ කුසුමාවලී
නිපතති තවේත්යුක්තෝ බාලෛඃ සහේලමුදෛරයඃ ।
ඣටිති දනුජක්ෂේපේණෝර්ධ්වං ගතස්තරුමංඩලාත්
කුසුමනිකරඃ සෝऽයං නූනං සමේති ශනෛරිති ॥6॥
Meaning
සුරභිලතමා - most fragrant; මූර්ධනි-ඌර්ධ්වං - on top of (Thy) head; කුතඃ කුසුමාවලී - from where cluster of flowers; නිපතති තව- - is falling (on) Thy (head); ඉති-උක්තඃ බාලෛඃ - thus was said by the children; සහේලම්-උදෛරයඃ - jokingly (Thou) said; ඣටිති - suddenly; දනුජ-ක්ෂේපේණ- - by the Asura's throwing; ඌර්ධ්වං ගතඃ- - rising upward; තරු-මංඩලාත් - from the clusters of the trees; කුසුම-නිකරඃ - the heaps of flowers; සඃ-අයං නූනං - that this indeed; සමේති ශනෛඃ-ඉති - is coming down slowly, thus;
Translation
The cowherd children asked Thee as to from where the extremely fragrant heap of flowers were falling on the top of Thy head. Thou jokingly told them that when the Asura was thrown , the flowers blooming on the clusters of the trees rose up and indeed those flowers were coming down slowly now.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
ක්වචන දිවසේ භූයෝ භූයස්තරේ පරුෂාතපේ
තපනතනයාපාථඃ පාතුං ගතා භවදාදයඃ ।
චලිතගරුතං ප්රේක්ෂාමාසුර්බකං ඛලු විස්ම්රෘතං
ක්ෂිතිධරගරුච්ඡේදේ කෛලාසශෛලමිවාපරම් ॥7॥
Meaning
ක්වචන දිවසේ - on another day; භූයඃ භූයස්තරේ - again, again very much; පරුෂ-ආතපේ - (when) it was very hot; තපන-තනයා-පාථඃ - the sun daughter's waters (waters of Yamunaa); පාතුං ගතා - to drink went; භවත්-ආදයඃ - Thou and others; චලිත-ගරුතම් - moving very quickly (the wings); ප්රේක්ෂාමාසුඃ-බකං - (Thou) saw a crane; ඛලු විස්මෘතං - indeed forgotten; ක්ෂිතිධර-ගරුත්-ඡේදේ - (when) the mountains' wings were cut (by Indra); කෛලාස-ශෛලම්-ඉව-අපරම් - Kailaash mountain like another;
Translation
Again on another day, when it was extremely hot, Thou and the others went to drink the water of river Yamunaa who is the daughter of the Sun. Thou saw a crane flapping its wings very quickly, which looked like the mountain Kailaash whose wings Indra forgot to cut when he was cutting off the wings of the mountains.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
පිබති සලිලං ගෝපව්රාතේ භවංතමභිද්රුතඃ
ස කිල නිගිලන්නග්නිප්රඛ්යං පුනර්ද්රුතමුද්වමන් ।
දලයිතුමගාත්ත්රෝට්යාඃ කෝට්යා තදාऽऽශු භවාන් විභෝ
ඛලජනභිදාචුංචුශ්චංචූ ප්රගෘහ්ය දදාර තම් ॥8॥
Meaning
පිබති සලිලං - drinking the water (when); ගෝපව්රාතේ - the cowherd boys were,; භවංතම්-අභිද්රුතඃ - towards Thee charging; ස කිල නිගිලන්- - he indeed swallowing Thee; අග්නි-ප්රඛ්යම් - fire-like (Thee); පුනඃ-ද්රුතම්-උද්වමන් - again hastily spitting out; දලයිතුම්-අගාත්- - to tear (Thee) came; ත්රෝට්යාඃ කෝට්යා - by the beaks point; තදා-ආශු - then quickly; භවාන් විභෝ - Thou O Lord!; ඛල-ජන-භිදා-චුංචුඃ- - in the evil people destroying expert; චංචූ ප්රගෘහ්ය - (his Asura's) beak, catching hold of; දදාර තම් - tore him apart;
Translation
When the cowherd boys were drinking water, he charged towards Thee and swallowed Thee and again hastily spit Thee out like a ball of fire. He then came to tear Thee by the point of its beak. O Lord! Thou who are adapt at destroying the evil people, catching hold of his beak, tore him apart.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
සපදි සහජාං සංද්රෂ්ටුං වා මෘතාං ඛලු පූතනා-
මනුජමඝමප්යග්රේ ගත්වා ප්රතීක්ෂිතුමේව වා ।
ශමනනිලයං යාතේ තස්මින් බකේ සුමනෝගණේ
කිරති සුමනෝවෘංදං වෘංදාවනාත් ගෘහමෛයථාඃ ॥9॥
Meaning
සපදි සහජාං - hastily, (his) sister; සංද්රෂ්ටුං වා මෘතාං - to see or the dead; ඛලු පූතනාම්- - indeed Pootanaa; අනුජම්-අඝම්-අපි- - (Or) the younger brother Agha also; අග්රේ ගත්වා - ahead going; ප්රතීක්ෂිතුම්-ඒව වා - or awaiting him only; ශමන-නිලයං - to the abode of death; යාතේ තස්මින් බකේ - his having gone, the crane's; සුමනෝගණේ - (when) the host of gods; කිරති සුමන-වෘංදං - was showering heaps of flowers; වෘංදාවනාත් - from Vrindaavana; ගෘහම්-ඓයථාඃ - to home (Thou) went;
Translation
In no time the crane demon reached the abode of death as if to see his dead sister Pootanaa or as if to welcome his younger brother Aghaasura who was to follow him. As the host of gods were showering heaps of flowers, Thou went home from the woods of Vrindaavana.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
ලලිතමුරලීනාදං දූරාන්නිශම්ය වධූජනෛ-
ස්ත්වරිතමුපගම්යාරාදාරූඪමෝදමුදීක්ෂිතඃ ।
ජනිතජනනීනංදානංදඃ සමීරණමංදිර-
ප්රථිතවසතේ ශෞරේ දූරීකුරුෂ්ව මමාමයාන් ॥10॥
Meaning
ලලිත-මුරලී-නාදං - the sweet sound of the flute; දූරාත්-නිශම්ය - from far hearing; වධූජනෛඃ- - by the Gopikas; ත්වරිතම්-උපගම්ය-ආරාත්- - hastily approaching near; ආරූඪ-මෝදම්-උදීක්ෂිතඃ - in extreme joy (they) saw (Thee); ජනිත-ජනනී-නංද-ආනංදඃ - causing joy to (Thy) mother and Nanda; සමීරණ-මංදිර-ප්රථිත-වසතේ - in the Guruvaayur temple, famous, living; ශෞරේ - O Shauri! (Vaasudeva); දූරී කුරුෂ්ව - expel; මම-ආමයාන් - my ailments;
Translation
The Gopikaas heard the sweet sound of Thy flute and rushed with great joy to have a glimpse of Thee. Thy parents Yashoda and Nanda were also very delighted to see Thee. O Thou Shauri! (Vaasudeva) Who are well known to be residing in the famous temple of Guruvaayur, be pleased to expel my ailments.
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