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KAMSAVAHO
60. Thus, when that son of Vasudeva (i. e., Krsņa), after personally summing up <drawing together >, at ease, hundreds of utterances <rays > detailed <far spreading > on accoun of the abundance of topics <vastness of regions >, approaches his residence, at that time the sun as well [ approaches ] the peak of the western mountain.
Thus (ends) the Second Canto in the
(poem) Karsavaho.
CANTO THREE 1. The sound of the drum, which is begun early in the morning and which is the Sūtradhāra that comes forth first at the commencement of the wrestling fight which is like a dart to the heart of adversaries, announces, as it were, to the parties of bards, the passing of the ( appointed ] time of awaking.
2. The bardic party, constructing poetic compositions with words full of sentiment [ and hence .] resembling (iva) the waking genius of a wise poet, gradually proceeds to wake up the sleeping lotus-eyed ( Krsna).
3. Hail! O blessed one, may the dawn, which is indeed the occasion for a happy waking and which is attended by restless swarms of bees that are [ as it were ] the side glances darted by the lotus-beauty, bestow good fortune on you, the preëminent one.
4. This lord of night (i. e., the moon ), seeing the prospect of the loveliness of your face outshining by the beauty of its eyes the darkness of his spot, has stepped away with stealthy steps (even] before your waking up.
5. O descendent of Yadu, these stars of your eyes (i.e., pupils), on (your) waking, will favour all the people; and behold, on account of them, those other stars in the sky) (will) indeed quickly grow pale through (a sense of] shame.
6. In the light of the moon the masses of darkness remain, indeed, somehow sheltered by the shade of trees; [but] now, in
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