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Gita Govinda -Shri Jayadeva Gosvami
Act Six : dhåñöa vaikuëöhaù
The Audacious Autocrat
Scene Twelve : Song 12 : Verse 1
TranslationRädhä was sitting in a chamber of flowering vines. When the sakhé saw Rädhä powerless to go to Kṛṣṇa despite her being fervently desirous of his company, she described Rädhä’s condition to Govinda, who was himself inflicted physically and psychologically with transformations of intense amorous desire. CommentaryAlthough Rädhä was hankering for Kṛṣṇa, she could not go to him because she was too debilitated from the trauma of separation. Seeing this, the sakhé left Rädhikä there in the chamber of flowering creepers and went to inform Kṛṣṇa about Rädhä’s predicament. Kṛṣṇa has sat down in a state of depression, suffering from frustrated passion. Therefore his movements have become slow. The purport of latä-gåha is saìketa-sthala, the appointed meeting place. The chanda of this verse is äryä. |