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2. yam dhrshtvaa yamunaam pipaasuH aniSam

     vyooho gavaam gaahathe

    vidhyuthvaan ithi neelakanTanivaho

     yam dhrashtum uthkanTathe

     utthamsaaya thamaalapallavam ithi

      cChindhanthi yam gopikaaH

      kanthiH kaaliyaSaasanasya vapushaH

      saa paavanee paathu naH

 

Seeing the light of whose body the thirsty cows take it to be the river yamuna and try to enter, the peacocks become eager thisnking that it is the rainbearing cloud and the gopis see it as the green sprouts  of thmalar tree and start picking it, may  that light of the body of Krishna protect us.

 

The dark hue of the body of Krishna is emitting waves of light, vapushaH kaanthiH  and the herd of the cows, gavaam vyoohaH msee it as the river Yamuna, dhrshtvaa yamunaam. Being thirsty, pipaasuH, they try to enter, gaahathe  the river. To  the peacocks, neelakantanivahaH it looks like the rainbearing cloud, vidhyuthvaan ithi and they are eager to enjoy the rain and start dancing. The gopis take the encompassing light as the sprouts of thamala tree, thamaalapallvam ith and try to pick, cChindhanthi, the sprouts.

 

Leela suka calls Krishna as kaliyaSaasana, the one who punished the serpent Kaliya.

 

This sloka describes the dark hue of Krishna which is lustrous like a dark moon (krshnachandra) as Leelasuka describes him elsewhere.(KKpart1-sloka25)

 

3.dhevaH paayaan payasi vimale yaamune majjatheenaam

   yaachantheenaam anunayapadhaiH vanchithaani amSukaani

   lajjaa lolaiH alasavilasaiHunmishathpanchabaanaiH

   gopasthreeNaam nayankusumaiH archithaH keSavo naH

May the Lord  Kesava , who was entreated  with sweet words by gopis, to give them their clothes stealthily taken by him while they were bathing  the river Yamuna, who was worshipped by their bashful, loving and stealthy  glances, protect us.

 

Krishna took away the clothes of the gopis, vanchithaani amSukaani, who were bathing in the  pure stream of Yamuna, vimale yamune.. They entreated, yaachantheenaam, him with coaxing words, anunayapadhaiH, to return them. He gave them only his smile. By that the gopis were smitten with love, unmishath panchabaaNaiH and started sending stealthy glances, alasavilasaiH, due to their bashfulness, lajjaalolaiH, of their condition and Krishna, says Leelasuka was worshipped by their eyes with their glances as the flowers, nayanakusumaiH archithaH..

 

The significance of this episode will be elaborated in a later sloka. (No.8), and it is enough to mention here that all the leelas of Brindavan were finished by the time Krishna attained the age ten.

 

4. maathaH na athaH param anuchitham

    yath khalaanaam purasthaath

    asthaaSankam jaTarapiTaree

    poorthaye narthithaa asi

    thath kshanthavyam sahajasaralE

    vathsale vaaNi kuryaam

    prayaschittham guNagaNanayaa

    gopaveshasya vishNoH

 

Oh mother, Goddess Saravathi, vaani, who is gentle by nature, sahjasarale, who has love towards her children, vathsale, there is nothing more improper, na athaH param anuchitham, than making you dance in front, narththaa asi of mean people, khalaanaam purasthaath, just to fill my stomach, jaTarapiTare, without any hesitation, astha aSankam. Please forgive me, kshanthavyam. I am atoning the sin, praayaschittham kuryaam  by speaking about the auspicious qualities, guNagaNanayaa, of  Lord Vishnu who had come in the guise of a gopa, gopaveshasaya vishNoH.

 

Leelasuka repents that he has been composing poems and praising the wicked and thus abusing the speech which is Sarasvathi herself. So he asks the forgiveness saying that he was using her as if making her dance in front of the wicked just to make his living. He says that the atonement of this sin is only to speak about the Lord who has incarnated as Krishna. This does not mean that Leelasuka was really doing all this but it is for the purpose of the people of the worlds to show that to praise the Lord is alone the means of atoning the various services we have to do in the world to please others, for the sake of worldly enjoyment.

 

 

5.angulyagraiH aruNakiranaiH mukthasamrudDharanDhram

 vaaram vaaram vadhanamarythaavenumaapooryantham  vyasthyasthaanGhrim vikachakamalacChaayavisthaaranethram

vandhe brndhaavansucharitham nandhagopalasoonum

 

I bow down to the son of Nanda, who, is repeatedly opens and closes the holes of the flute with his red fingertips, and  fills the flute with the air from his mouth with his feet crossed one over the other.

 

Krishna is playing the flute and the scene is described by Leelasuka. He is continuously opening and closing the holes, vaaram vaaram mukthasamrudDharanDhram, of the flute in the process of playing and blows into the flute, vadhana maruthaa aapoorayantham, to make the sound. His feet are crossed one over the other, vyasthyasayapaadham in standing posture and his finger tips playing he flute are emitting rays of red colour , angulayagraiH arunakiranaiH.

 

Reading this we can visualize the form of Krishna  playing the flute of which Periazvar has composed ten beautiful verses.

 

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