# hamāro bāṁko sundara shyāma
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Language: English (source Roman transliteration is Braj/Hindi in Latin script)
Source ID: PRM-0438-M09-K050
Original work: Prem Ras Madira by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj
Madhuri: Shri Krishna
Local pad: 50
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## English whole-pad meaning
(In our scriptures, the Divine Love has been compared with the crawling of a snake that never walks straight but when entering a hole, slips in straight with great speed. Likewise, Love is crooked from outside, but straight from within. Bhagwan Kṛishṇa is the incarnation of Divine Love. Therefore, everything about Him is naturally crooked. The same has been described in the following beautiful pada of Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī. Apart from the beauty of the meaning, the use of only one word ‘bāṁkā’ or ‘bāṁkī’, depending on the gender, greatly enhances the beauty of the pada. To avoid lessening the beauty of the pada to certain extent, I have also used the same word giving its meaning in that particular context in the bracket.) “Our Shyāmasundara is extremely bāṁko (crooked). The decoration dangling from His peacock-feathered crown is bāṁkī (arched) and so are His curly locks of hair. The shifting of His eye-brows is also bāṁkī (twisting). The besara hanging from His nose is excessively bāṁkī (slanting). His eyes as well as His loving side-glances are also bāṁkī (askew). The pītāmbara swaying from around His neck is also bāṁkā (not straight). His utterly sweet slow smile as well as His neck is also bāṁkī (curved) and His anklets as well as His feet are also bāṁke (twisted). Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī says that the crookedness of everything about Him is imbued with endless beauty and sweetness. What to say more, even all His actions are bāṁke (not straight).
English source: prm-english-part-1, Part 1; PDF pages 375, 376; printed pages 320, 321.
Published meaning author: Smt. Padmā Devī. Transliteration and translation: Sushrī Braj Parikarī Devī. English edition: Radha Govind Samiti, New Delhi, 2009-10. These credits are separate from the original work's literary author, Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj.
## Pad · Roman transliteration · Source edition
hamāro bāṁko sundara shyāma
bāṁkī mora mukuṭa kī laṭakani, bāṁkī laṭa abhirāma
bāṁkī maṭaka bhṛikuṭi ati bāṁkī, besara nāsā ṭhāma
bāṁke naina saina ati bāṁke, bāṁke paṭa ura dhāma
madhura madhura mṛidu musakani bāṁkī, bāṁkī grīva lalāma
bāṁko kaṭi-taṭa nūpura bāṁko, bāṁko vāko pāma
saba ‘kripālu’ bāṁko ati bāṁko, bāṁko vāko kāma
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Prem Ras Madira is a published work by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj, with a print history preceding this website. The supplied companion Gutka identifies Radha Govind Samiti as publisher and its eighth edition as 15 July 2011 (PDF page 3, printed page II).
The official biography says Prem Ras Madira was published by 1955; a JKP article gives 1960 for its first Hindi publication. These sources disagree, so this collection does not assert a single verified first-publication year. The 2011 date identifies the supplied companion Gutka edition, not the first publication or every scanned edition.
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## Prem Ras Madira English edition
The supplied English first edition (October 2009) credits Smt. Padmā Devī for meanings and Sushrī Braj Parikarī Devī for transliteration and translation. Publisher: Radha Govind Samiti, New Delhi. These facts are visually verified in both parts, PDF pages 2–3. This is the English edition date, not the original work’s first-publication date.
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