DASAKOM 72

 STANZA 1

 UPSET BY NARADA'S WORDS, KAMSA CALLED AKROORA,

 AND ASKED HIM TO BRING YOU TO HIS PALACE OF PARTICIPATING

 IN A SPORTS TOURNAMENT BEING HELD IN HIS PALACE COURTYARD

 STANZA 2

 AKROORA WHO WAS GREATLY DEVOTED TO YOU,

 AND THOUGH HE WANTED TO MEET YOU IN PERSON

 WAS HAPPY TO COME TO YOU BY HIS OWN ORDER TO DO SO

 STANZA 3

 COMING TO YOUR HOME, ENJOYING IN ANTICIPATION

 THE PLEASURE OF MEETING YOU, AND IN FEAR OF

 ANY UNKNOWN HURDLE, HE PRAYING TO GOD,

 DID NOT FEEL HOW FAR HE TRAVEL

 STANZA 4

AND HE SPENT THE TIME OF TRAVEL BY THINKING ONLY OF YOU,

“WILL I EVER SEE HIM WHO CAN BE PERCEIVED ONLY THROUGH SCRIPTURES,

WILL HE SEE ME,

WILL HE TOUCH ME,

WILL ABLE TO EMBRACE HIM"

 STANZA 5

 KRISHNA, THRUGH HOW MANY STAGES OF JOY

 DID HE NOT GO THROUGH,

 AS IF IMMERSED IN A SEA OF EXTREME BLISS,

 AS IF GONE DIZZY IN A FAINT

 STANZA 6

 WHEN YOU ENTERED GRADUALLY THE VRINDAVAN GROUND,

SANCTIFIED BY YOUR FOOT AND WORSHIPPED BY EVEN GODS LIKE SHIVA AND BRAHMA,

 WHAT LEVEL OF JOY DID HE NOT CLIMB,

 AND AS IF SUNK IN A DIZZY FAINT, KRISHNA,

 STANZA 7

 SEEING THE PLACES WHERE YOU PLAYED HE BOWED DOWN,

AND ROLLED IN DUST MARKED BY YOUR FOOTMARKS

 

THERE WERE EVEN THEN MANY DEVOTED TO YOU,

BUT THOSE WHO LOVED YOU

SO MUCH WERE VERY RARE, MY LORD

 STANZA 8

 THERE HE SAW YOU AND YOUR BROTHER

 VERY CLEAN AFTER EVENING BATH, WATCING THE MILK BEING DRAWN FROM COWS,

 DRESSED YELLOW AND BLACK CLOTHES RESPECTIVELY

 WEARING SPARSE ORNAMENTS, MY LORD

 STANZA 10

 YOU, RAISED HIM GETTING DOWN

 FROM THE CHARIOT AT A FA8IR DISTANCE,

 AND LED ALONG WITH YOUR BROTHER, TO NANDA,

 BECAUSE OF JOY NOT ABLE TO BE EFFUSIVE WITH SPEECH

 STANZA 11

 WELCOMING HIM RESPECTFULLY ALONG WITH NANDA

 YOU, AFTER TELLING YOUR FATHER ABOUT THE NEWS,

 TOLD ALL THE OTHERS TOO

 THE COMMAND OF KAMSA SENT THROUGH HIM

 STANZA 12

 NOT SEEIMG YOU THE WHOLE NIGHT THROUGH

 THE GIRLS WOMDERED, “IS OUR THIEF HIDING

 IN CHANDRA'S HOUSE,

 OR IN CHANDRABHAGA'S OR VRINDA'S HOUSE? "