arī sakhi! sigaro jaga baurāī

English meaning

Distressed with the moon, a virahiṇī says to her intimate friend, “Oh my beloved sakhi! This whole world has gone crazy, because the moon-rays are unmistakably burning me like fire, yet the worldly people call the moon, cold. Oh sakhi! The black spot which you see in the moon is actually the mark of blame which the moon has acquired through the sin of killing many virahiṇīs. It is this great sin of killing that causes the moon to fall everyday on Mt. Astāchala from the sky, as a result of which, the moon breaks down into many small pieces. These very pieces scattered all over are seen as stars in the sky at night. Oh ‘Wicked moon!’ Let the sun appear in the sky in the morning, and then I will see how powerful you are!” Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī says, “This moon has been described in the scriptures as dvijarāja which means the king of brahmans, but in my opinion, it has derived this name from the act of chewing with its teeth (dvija) the virahiṇīs (rāja).”

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 230, 231 · printed pages 565, 566.

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