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KAMSAVAHO
58. Does not the moon, that sinks in the ocean [ early ] in the morning, come up (again) in the evening ? No more sorrow; for you, who are graceful, the return of a person who has gone away is not a rarity.
59. Like lotus plants (waiting) for the sun who illumines the whole world and who expells the spreading mass of darkness, you wait for the return of him (i. e., Krsna) who bestows the light (of knowledge) on all the people and who removes the mass of ignorance.
60. That cloud [in the form ] of the messenger of Mādhava appeases with extremely cool showers of water (in the form ] of words the flock of Cătaki birds [ in the form) of the party of Vraja ladies that was tormented by the hot summer (in the form ] of the misery of separation.
61. Then, at the dawning of the day, the son of Gāndini (i. e., Akrūra ), immediately mounting the chariot occupied by Hari, acquires a rare and auspicious beauty pleasing to the rows of lotuslike eyes of men, just as Kāsyapi (mounting the chariot occupied by the sun acquires a rare and auspicious beauty which is pleasing to the beds of lotuses ).
62. Accompanied by the cowherd chiefs, Mādhava, driving (lit., going) in a chariot that surpassed the wind by its speed, reaches the bank of Yamunā (lit., the daughter of the sun ) where the Tamāla trees on the slope are struck by series of waves similar to the rows of the peaks of Krsna-giri.
63. That son of Gāndini (i. e., Akrūra), bathing in the waters of Yamunā, had his body bristling with hair-ends through surprise after seeing Väsudeva even s in the waters ] there like a reflection.
64. Then, after crossing that (river Yamunā), that slayer of Madhu (i. e., Krsna), who is pleasing and sweet to the young minds, enters the town, Mathurā by name, accompanied by his party; and there, passing through the streets, he gives excessive pleasure to the ladies just as the moon to the night-blooming lotuses. Thus (ends) the First canto in the ( poem ] Kaṁsavaho
composed by Rāma Pānivāda.
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