Nikunj Madhuri · Pad 23
yugalavara, niratata kuñja majhāra
Original pad by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj
English meaning
The Divine Couple is dancing in a grove feeling intoxicated with bliss. The sakhīs, Lalitā etc. are repeatedly shouting, ‘Balihāra! balihāra!’. Shyāmā and Shyāma have entered into a competition in dancing today. Both of Them are expressing various gestures and postures through various movements of Their different limbs. Desiring for Their individual victory, Shyāmā and Shyāma are dancing unceasingly. Then, Lalitā sakhī got up and pronouncing the judgement said, “Both our Lords should stop dancing now; both of Them dance alike.” In the words of Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī, both Shrī Rādhā and Shrī Kṛishṇa told the judgement given by Lalitā to be partial and said, indicating towards each other, ‘I have won and He has lost’, ‘I have won and She has lost’.
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 91, 92 · printed pages 426, 427.
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.
yugalavara, niratata kuñja majhāra
dekhati lalitādika sakhiyana saba, puni-puni kahi balihāra
āju hoṛa pari gaī nirata mahaṁ, yugala navala sarakāra
vividha aṅga bahu bheda saṅga dou, hāva-bhāva-vistāra
niratata gati avirāma gaura-hari, hāra-jīta ura dhāra
taba lalitā sakhi uṭhi kaha ‘basa karu, nāchata dou ikasāra’
dou ‘kripālu’ kaha ‘pakshapāta yaha, ye gaīṁ, ye gaye hāra’