Gaudavaho

Author(s): Vakpatiraj, Narhari Govind Suru, P L Vaidya, A N Upadhye, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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Benediction
18. May the creeper-like hair-line (roma-laa) on the belly of Visnu in his fraudulent female form protect you—( the hairline) which looked like a row of bees pursuing the lotus hidden inside His stomach (navel).
19. Victorious is He, for whom, in His transformation as a young female, the worlds, receding (osaramta ) within from His thin belly, procured the voluminous bulk for breasts and buttocks.
20. Victorious is He who wears a garland of wood-flowers, encircled (pariāla) by rows of humming bees behaving as watchmen (jāmailla ) and thus looking as an enclosure (vai) thrown round His harem, the residence of Laksmi.
21. Victorious is the mouth of Visnu (Krsna ) kissed by Yasodã in His infancy-the mouth that looked like a lotus shooting upwards, as it were, having been denied an outlet of the navel.
22. May the fresh nail-marks caused (kāraņāo ) by Rādhā, appearing like rays of the Kaustubha jewel on the chest of Krsna, take away your grief.
23. Bow to Him ( Visņu ) who cut the head of Rāhu, (for which reason ) his grief revolves, remaining just unexpressed ( añiccaria ) (and unrelieved ), ( finding an outlet only) in baseless, slight sighs.
24. Bow to the feet of Balarāma, fastened together (samdāņia) by his black upper garment slipping down through the effects of intoxication, thus giving an impression of the Yamunā river rolling (on his feet), being frightened of his angry grunts.
25. May the eyes of Balarāma, flushed with intoxication, emitting, as it were, the lustre of jewels on a thousand hoods lying dormant within him, drive away your sins.
26. Victorious is the swaggering step of Balarāma and Krsna which presses down under its weight Sesa and the Tortoise, making them realise the pang ( viaņā ) thereof within themselves ( and suffer) with the least murmur of a protest (niruvālambham).
27. Bow to that Yellow-clad (Visņu ) who has a naturally dark-complexioned body, made so variegated (sabala) by the periods of disappearance and emergence of day and night, as it were.