Dhala Dhala Kanca Angera Labhani
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The soft, fresh beauty of her tender body flows down over the earth itself; in the gentle waves of her faint smile, even Cupid himself swoons.
What was that lovely woman I glimpsed for just a moment? My composure has fled far away; my mind is ceaselessly troubled -- why does it grieve so constantly?
Laughing again and again, swaying her body, she moves on as if dancing; with the deadly arrows of her sidelong glances, she rushes to pierce my very life.
A garland of malati flowers hangs at her throat, swaying over her heart; drunken bees, rising and falling, wander round and round it.
The mark of a sandalwood dot glows on her forehead, and it has struck straight into my heart; I know not what illness has taken root within me -- out of shame before others, I dare not say.
Such is the hardened heart of this woman -- what lies within it never comes out; I know not what its true measure could be, says the servant Govinda.
About Dhala Dhala Kanca Angera Labhani
A Bengali pada of Govinda Dasa Kaviraja describing a young man's sudden infatuation after a single glimpse of a beautiful woman -- her fresh beauty, her laughing sidelong glances compared to piercing arrows, the malati garland at her throat drawing drunken bees -- closing with his confession that shame keeps him from naming what secretly torments his heart.
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Dhala Dhala Kanca Angera Labhani was composed by Govinda Dasa Kaviraja.
What is the meaning of Dhala Dhala Kanca Angera Labhani?
The soft, fresh beauty of her tender body flows down over the earth itself; in the gentle waves of her faint smile, even Cupid himself swoons.
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Dhala Dhala Kanca Angera Labhani has 6 verses.
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