Leela Madhuri · Pad 6
‘kapāṭani, ko naṭakhaṭa khaṭakāya’
Original pad by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj
English meaning
One day, Shyāmasundara started knocking at the door of Kishorī Jī’s palace at midnight. Although Kishorī Jī knew who it was, yet for the sake of humour, She asked smiling within Her heart, “Who is this naughty one, knocking at My door at midnight?” Shyāmasundara replied, “I am Mādhava.” The word Mādhava means Bhagwan Kṛishṇa, but it also means the spring season. Kishorī Jī deliberately took the latter meaning and said, “Oh spring season! How did You come at this time, as there has not come even the month of Phāguna yet?” (She thus continued taking a different meaning of the words which qualify Bhagwan Kṛishṇa and with which He tried to introduce Himself to Her.) He further replied, “I am Chakrīdhara.” Kishorī Jī responded, “If You are a potter, go somewhere else to make Your earthen pots.” Shyāmasundara said, “No, no, I am Ahimardī (the trampler of the serpent Kāliyā)”. Kishorī Jī said, “If You are the killer of the snakes, Garud̤a, how did You come here, leaving Your Baikuṇṭha?” Bhagwan Kṛishṇa then said, “I am Hari”. At this, Kishorī Jī replied with feigned fear, “Oh God! You are a monkey! Oh mother! Then I will not open My door at all.” Shyāmasundara further said, “I am Ghanashyāma”. At this, Kishorī Jī said, “If You are a black cloud, go in the sky; who needs You here in the palace?” Shyāmasundara then said, “Oh Rādhe! I am Dharaṇīdhara (the Supreme God who sustains the entire world.)” Dharaṇīdhara also means Sheshanāga, an incarnation of God who holds the entire earth on his head. Kishorī Jī said, “If You are Sheshanāga, then go to the nether world.” Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī says, “It was only after teasing Bhagwan Kṛishṇa in this way for a long time that Kishorī Jī opened the door.”
Complete whole-pad meaning transcribed from the supplied English edition. The source provides no separate line-by-line or word-by-word meaning.
Prem Ras Madira (English), Part 2 · PDF pages 53, 54 · printed pages 388, 389.
Meanings: Smt. Padmā Devī. English translation and transliteration: Sushrī Braj Parikarī Devī. Source details.
Pad · Roman transliteration
The original verse in Roman letters, as printed in the English edition.
‘kapāṭani, ko naṭakhaṭa khaṭakāya’
jāni jāni pūchhati pyārī jū, adharātina musakāya
hari kaha ‘hauṁ mādhava’, ‘basanta tuma, abahiṁ na phāguna āya’
‘hauṁ chakrīdhara’, ‘ho kumhāra to, ghaṭa banāu kahuṁ jāya’
‘hauṁ ahimardī’, ‘garud̤arāja! taji, baikuṇṭahiṁ kita dhāya’
‘hauṁ hauṁ hari’ ‘ari! bānara daiyā, hauṁ na kholihauṁ māya’
‘hauṁ ghanashyāma’ ‘ahau jo ghana to, nīla gagana rahu chhāya’
‘hauṁ dharaṇīdhara’ ‘ahau shesha to, jāhu patāla sidhāya’
kholyo lalī ‘kripālu’ kapāṭahiṁ, lālahiṁ bahuta khijhāya