Dhala Dhala Kanca Angera Labani
The soft, fresh beauty of his tender body flows down over the earth itself; in the gentle waves of his faint smile, even Cupid himself swoons.
Who was that charming lover 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 his body, he moves on as if dancing; with the deadly arrows of his sidelong glances, he rushes to pierce my very life.
A garland of malati flowers hangs at his throat, swaying over his chest; drunken bees, rising and falling, wander round and round it.
The mark of a sandalwood dot glows on his 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.
So hard is a woman's life that it does not leave the body; I do not know, who knows, what the end of this will be, says the servant Govinda.
About Dhala Dhala Kanca Angera Labani
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.
- Composer
- Govinda Dasa Kaviraja · Read biography
- Verses
- 6
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Dhala Dhala Kanca Angera Labani was composed by Govinda Dasa Kaviraja.
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The soft, fresh beauty of his tender body flows down over the earth itself; in the gentle waves of his faint smile, even Cupid himself swoons.
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Dhala Dhala Kanca Angera Labani has 6 verses.
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