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36. Sprinkling this ( Krsna ), who was resorted to by Indra (lit., the enemy of the mountain ) whose fire of vanity was extinguished and who was pleased, with (the streams of ] milk flowing from her sponteniously oozing udder, the heavenly cow makes his title Govinda ( i. e., Gopendra) all the more appropriate.
37. Then, indeed, the jubilant beloved of Abhramu (i. e., Airā. vata), like an autumnal cloud, sprinkles him with the waters of the celestial river poured down from golden pitchers.
38. Well, on one occasion, Acyuta at once brings back, from Varuna's abode, [that] Nanda who had dived in the waters of Yaminã and who was carried away by a dependant of Varuņa.
39. In the vernal season, when the swarms of bees sticking to the tops of juicy mango trees are disturbed by the breezes from the mountains on the shore, this Keśava performs the steady Rāsa sport in the park of Vmdā which is cool on account of the copious trickling down of moon-stones that are touched by the effusion of moonlight and in the extremely holy localities on the banks of Yamunā (lit., the beloved daughter of Kalinda).
40. The boy (Krsna ), frequenting the assemblies attended by parties of clever girls that had come there, performs a sport in which (various) amusements are displayed, which is ornamented with the Murali lute, in which the ways of a voluptuary are mocked, in which there are clear and sweet conversations, and which thrills the heavenly nymphs.
41. In the Rāsa sports, this your son, whose body is decked with a pendant garland of lotuses (in the form) of the eyes of Vraja maidens that are overwhelmed with bashfulness, whose moonlike face is besmeared with the nectar of sweet smiles, and who gladdens all the people, is seen in all the directions singing, dancing, moving and lying in a most charming manner.
42. Though possessing manifold bodies like that, he became invisible to beautiful ladies whose minds are proud of their beauty: this (Krsna') is not visible for persons of malignant nature, just as
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