Madhava Ki Kahaba Daiba Bipaka
AI-drafted translation — pending review
O Madhava, what can I say of the cruelty of fate! How much could I tell of the trials of the path I came by, even with a hundred thousand mouths to speak.
Leaving my home, having gone just four steps, seeing the night my limbs trembled; in the impenetrable darkness I could not even see the path — a serpent coiled around my two feet.
I am, on one hand, a woman of a respectable family, and this a moonless night; the forest terribly dense and far; and on top of it the clouds pour down rain without pause — by what path shall I go?
My lotus feet became caked with mud, torn and wounded by thorns; but in hope of the sight of you I paid it no heed at all — now my long-standing sorrow has fled far away.
The moment your flute's sound entered my ears, I gave up all hope of household happiness; I counted the sufferings of the path as less than a blade of grass — so speaks Govinda Dasa.
About Madhava Ki Kahaba Daiba Bipaka
Govinda Dasa Kaviraja gives voice to Radha recounting, after she has safely arrived, everything the dark forest path made her endure on the way to meet Krishna — a serpent coiling round her feet in the blackness, thorns cutting her lotus feet, driving rain — all of it forgotten the instant his flute's sound reached her ears.
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Madhava Ki Kahaba Daiba Bipaka was composed by Govinda Dasa Kaviraja.
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O Madhava, what can I say of the cruelty of fate! How much could I tell of the trials of the path I came by, even with a hundred thousand mouths to speak.
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Madhava Ki Kahaba Daiba Bipaka has 5 verses.
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