Milan Madhuri · Pad 7
kahahu sakhi, prathama-milana kī bāta
Original pad by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj
English meaning
A sakhī asks her intimate friend, “Oh sakhi! Tell me about your first meeting with beloved Shyāmasundara. When, where and how did you see Him? Also tell me about how He smiles. How does He look and what is the complexion of His body? Of what type are His eyes and His side-glances? How does He talk? Also tell me about the gait of that Trickster. Why don’t you tell me all this? Why are you putting on airs?” In the words of Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī, the sakhī adds, “I am your intimate friend. Why then are you feeling shy in telling me about all this?”
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 101, 102 · printed pages 436, 437.
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.
kahahu sakhi, prathama-milana kī bāta
kaba dekhī? kita dekhī so chhavi? kasa dekhī musakāta?
kaiso lakhyo rūpa sakhi!? kaiso, lakhyo raṅga so gāta?
kaise naina? saina sakhi kaise? kasa bainana batarāta?
kaisī chalata chāla so chhaliyā, kahahu na? kata itarāta
lagati ‘kripālu’ sagī sakhi puni kata, mo te kahata lajāta