sakhī! shashi, kirana agini tanu lāyo

English meaning

A virahiṇī, getting impatient with the moon-rays, says to her intimate friend, “Oh friend! The rays of the moon have set my whole body on fire.” Then, addressing the Moon, she says, “Oh wicked moon! Although by name you are Sudhākara, i.e. one who showers nectar, yet in action, you are Divākara (the sun), i.e. one who rains fire. Who is that worthless teacher who has taught you this worthless job? Have you learnt this act of burning from bad̤avānala (the fire of water or the marine-fire which exists in the ocean), or from the deadly poison (Hālāhala), extracted from the ocean? Oh wicked one! When Mt. Mandarāchala fell in the ocean due to the fear of Indra’s thunderbolt, why did you escape from being turned into pieces by coming under it? The implication is that it would have been very good if you were destroyed then and there only. Or why didn’t you go into the stomach of sage Agastya when he drank the ocean?” Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī says, “The greatest fault lies with the Ocean that manifested the Moon at the time of the churning of the ocean and did not keep him within himself as he kept the marine-fire.”

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 352, 353 · printed pages 687, 688.

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