Virah Madhuri · Pad 79
kahā sakhi! kabahuṁ na aihaiṁ shyāma
Original pad by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj
English meaning
The lamentation of Braja-maidens in Shyāmasundara’s separation – Oh sakhi! Will Shyāmasundara never come? Will one, so tender-hearted, become so cruel? Oh sakhi! Will He escape the memory of even those days when He dallied with us day and night? Will He also not remember the love of His friends, Dhanasukha, Manasukha, Shrīdāmā etc.? And will He even forget the parental love of Nanda and Yashodā? No, this cannot be. In the words of Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī, the maidens of Braja add, “Will He have no remembrance even of Braja which He used to love more than even Himself? No, no, this is impossible.”
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 275, 276 · printed pages 610, 611.
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.
kahā sakhi! kabahuṁ na aihaiṁ shyāma
banihaiṁ kahā niṭhura piya etika, sarala sukhada sukhadhāma
kahā surati rati-rasahūṁ, kī sakhi!, bisaraihaiṁ basu-yāma
kahā bhūli jaihaiṁ priya manasukha, dhanasukha, aru shrīdāma
kahā bhulaihaiṁ nanda-yashomati, asa paratīti na bhāma!
kahā ‘kripālu’ surati bisaraihaiṁ, prānana priya brajadhāma