Sajani Pekhalu Baraja Kisora
O friend, I saw the youthful prince of Vraja; drinking in the sweetness of his moon-like face, my eyes, like cakora birds, grew intoxicated.
His crest is adorned with the plume of a rapturous peacock and a garland of malati flowers; maddened by its fragrance, rows of bees hum sweetly there.
His body is dark as a rain-cloud, his brows the bow of Kama, his lotus eyes the five flower-arrows of Kama. Within, the chaste woman's dignity is shattered to pieces, and her very life hangs in doubt.
Jeweled earrings shaped like Madana's crocodile emblem sway restlessly upon his ears; beholding them, they swallow the very fish that is the mind of the world — so Govinda dasa affirms with certainty.
About Sajani Pekhalu Baraja Kisora
Another Govinda dasa Kaviraja pada in the same run of "sajani" addresses, this one leans on the cakora bird, said to live on moonbeams alone, as the figure for eyes helplessly drinking in Krishna's moon-like face. His rain-cloud-dark body, brow like Kama's bow, and eyes like Kama's five flower-arrows leave the heroine's composure, even her life, hanging by a thread. The closing image of crocodile-shaped earrings swallowing "the fish of the world's mind" gives the pada its striking final turn.
- Composer
- Govinda Dasa Kaviraja · Read biography
- Verses
- 4
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Sajani Pekhalu Baraja Kisora was composed by Govinda Dasa Kaviraja.
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O friend, I saw the youthful prince of Vraja; drinking in the sweetness of his moon-like face, my eyes, like cakora birds, grew intoxicated.
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Sajani Pekhalu Baraja Kisora has 4 verses.
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