Leela Madhuri · Pad 9
chale bani, mālini banamālī
Original pad by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj
English meaning
Today, Vanamālī i.e. Shyāmasundara has disguised Himself as a flower-selling maiden. Bedecked with all sixteen (traditional) adornments of a lady, He, with the flower-basket on His head, reached at the palace-gate of King Vṛishabhānu, where Kishorī Jī was sitting gracefully with Her friends. Calling out, He said, “This flower-selling maid has come from Nandagāṁva. If any maiden of Braja wears around her neck a garland prepared by Me, she will have Shyāmasundara in her control. Whoever wants can experience this unbelievable truth this very day.” Kishorī Jī said to Lalitā sakhī, “Listen, Oh sakhi Lalitā! Go and bring this flower-selling maiden here.” And that was it! The flower-selling maid, successful in Her trick, reached inside Kishorī Jī’s palace escorted by Lalitā. Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī comments, “Shyāmasundara is a great trickster and Kishorī Jī, extremely innocent, that is why She always gets deceived by Him.”
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 page 56 · printed page 391.
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.
chale bani, mālini banamālī
kari soraha siṅgāra dhare sira, phulanahāra ḍālī
pahuṁche shrī vṛishabhānubhavana jahaṁ, alina saṅga lālī
ṭeri kahyo mālini yaha āī, nandagāma vālī
jo brajabāla māla le ālī! le nija gala ghālī
tāko shyāma gulāma hoya lakhu, ājuhiṁ nahiṁ kālī
‘jāu bulāi lyāu,’ kaha lālī, ‘sunu lalitā ālī’
chalī lalī ke mahala alī saṁga, mālini gati jālī
lāla ‘kripālu’ chhalī ati lālī, ati bholī bhālī