bane ali! lālī banamālī

English meaning

Oh sakhi! Shyāmasundara had put on Kishorī Jī’s guise. What I am telling you is not what I have heard but what I saw with my own eyes yesterday. He was beautifully dressed up in a blouse on His chest and a beautiful chunarī of the net of five-colours on His head. His braid was very black and curly, giving appearance of the rows of black bees. The lovely karṇaphūlas adorned in His ears were of the shape of a spider. The besara and the nose-ring to which were attached strings of pearls were looking incomparably beautiful on His nose. The beauty of bangles and bracelets around His wrists, the rings and redness of henna on His hands was also extremely exquisite! The anklets adorning His lotus-feet and the red mihāvara decorating them were presenting an indescribably enchanting sight. Thus bedecked with all sixteen (traditional) adornments, Lālajī was really looking like Lālī. Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī thinks within his mind, “But even then, the black colour of Shyāmasundara’s body has remained black only.”

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 63, 64 · printed pages 398, 399.

Meanings: Smt. Padmā Devī. English translation and transliteration: Sushrī Braj Parikarī Devī. Source details.