Brahma Vaivarta Purana Chapter 4:101-110

Brahma Vaivarta Purana

Goloka-varnana

Description of Goloka

Chapter 4: Verse 101-110

ENGLISH TRANSLATION 101. ...the place below their curly hair splendid with a dot of red sindura, their complexions the colour of beautiful campaka flowers, (their limbs) anointed with sandal paste,... 102. ...dressed in yellow garments, their beautiful lips bimba fruits, the splendour of their faces eclipsing the autumn moonlight,... 103. ...their eyes eclipsing the beauty of lotuses blooming in autumn, their eyes glistening with black kajjala and designs drawn in musk,... 104. ...their braids decorated with malata blossoms that attract black bees greedy for nectar,... 105. ...their graceful motions defeating the elephants and khanjana birds, the crooked motions of their curved eyebrows suggesting a slight smile,... 106. ...splendid with teeth like ripe pomegranate seeds, decorated with raised noses opulent like the king of birds’ beak,... 107. ...their heavy breasts like the elephant king’s cheeks, their thighs firm and their hips broad,... 108. ...their hearts wounded by Kama’s arrows, passionately yearning to gaze on the full moon of (Lord Krsna’s) face... 109. ...(their forms) beautiful, attached to serving Sri Radha’s lotus feet, and by Radha’s order engaged in protecting that place,... 110. ...which was always filled with a hundred thousand pastime lakes filled with red and white lohita lotuses, splendid padma lotuses, sweetly humming black bees,...