# yaha chhorā hai, sakhī yā chhorī hai
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Language: English (source Roman transliteration is Braj/Hindi in Latin script)
Source ID: PRM-0733-M18-K012
Original work: Prem Ras Madira by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj
Madhuri: Hori
Local pad: 12
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## English whole-pad meaning
Catching hold of Shyāmasundara defeated in the game of Holī, the sakhīs have adorned Him as a young damsel, seeing which a sakhī quips, “Oh sakhi! Is this a boy or a girl? Looking at Her sixteen traditional embellishments, one is led to think that She is certainly a girl, but upon beholding Her blandishments, it seems as if She is obviously a boy, not a girl.” Another sakhī said, “Looking at Her beauty, it appears as if She is definitely someone’s wife.” Yet another sakhī said, “Upon carefully viewing the limbs of Her body, it seems that She is undoubtedly a boy.” In the meanwhile, Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī also joined in the fun of Holī and said, “It is neither a girl nor a boy, it is Brahma and the gender of Brahma is eternally neither feminine nor masculine. Hearing this, the sakhīs, too, started shouting ‘It’s Holī’, ‘It’s Holī’ in the mockery of love.”
English source: prm-english-part-2, Part 2; PDF pages 205; printed pages 540.
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
yaha chhorā hai, sakhī yā chhorī hai
yā ko lakhi shṛiṅgāra lagata asa, mānahuṁ navala-kishorī hai
pai lakhi yā ko hāva-bhāva sakhi!, nahiṁ lāgata yaha gorī hai
koū sakhi kaha chhavi lakhi lāgata, kāhū kī chitachorī hai
koū sakhi kaha tanu aṅgani lakhu, lagata purusha ko-so rī hai
kaha ‘kripālu’ yaha brahma napunsaka, sakhina kahata ho horī hai
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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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- [Official author's biography: publication by 1955](https://jagadgurukripalujimaharaj.org.in/life-history/)
- [JKP article: first Hindi publication reported as 1960](https://www.jkp.org.in/the-supremacy-of-the-divine-name-radhe/)
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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.
1009 source-derived English meanings and Roman transliterations are available for Prem Ras Madira, from the supplied English Parts 1 and 2. Roman text follows that edition; source wording can differ from the independently preserved Hindi scan. Each record identifies its translation source and PDF/printed pages. Unavailable translations remain explicitly marked; English navigation alone is not a translation.
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