Hori Madhuri · Pad 23
vṛindāvana, dhūma machī horī
Original pad by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj
English meaning
The festival of Holī is being celebrated with great enthusiasm in Vṛindāvana. Sakhīs and sakhās are spraying colour on each other with their pichakārīs, almost drenching each other with coloured water. Shrī Rādhā and Kṛishṇa are standing in the middle of the circle. They too, have coloured each other from head to toe. There is so much gulāla being thrown around that even the clouds seem to be coloured in red, and so are the lanes of Braja. There is such a tough tussle going on between the sakhās and the sakhīs that their clothes and ornaments are all disarrayed. Then, Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī announces, “The evening has approached, hence the play of Holī should be stopped now. It will be resumed tomorrow at the same time at this very place.”
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 213, 214 · printed pages 548, 549.
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.
vṛindāvana, dhūma machī horī
sakhana sakhina ko, sakhina sakhana ko, lai pichakārina raṁga borī
lalī lāla maṇḍala bicha ṭhād̤he, duhuṁna, duhuṁna kiya saraborī
lāla gulāla lāla bhaye bādara, lāla lāla bhai brajakhorī
srasta vyasta saba ke paṭa bhūshana, karata paraspara jhakajhorī
taba ‘kripālu’ kaha, sāṁjha bhaī aba, kāli hoya horī ho rī