Manasam Manasam Tyagad

Volume 2 Sri Prema-sudha-sattrakhya Sri Vrndavanesvari-namastottara-sata-nama-stotra

mānasaṁ mānasaṁ tyāgād utkaṇṭhārtaṁ nirundhatīm
rādhāṁ saṁvidya vidyāḍhyā tuṅgavidyedam abravīt

Understanding that grief-stricken Radha' had renounced the jealous anger in Her heart, intelligent Tungavidya' spoke to Her the following words.

vimuñca bandhure mānaṁ nirbandhaṁ śṛṇu me vacaḥ
purā kandarpa-sundaryai yāny utkaṇṭhita-cetase

the madhavi flower blossoming in the Krsna-springtime,

bhagavatopadiṣṭāni tava sakhyopalabdhaye
iṅgitābhijñayā tāni sindūreṇādya vṛndayā

the first of Govinda's beloveds,

vilikhya sakhi dattāni sa jīvita-suhṛttamaḥ
virahārtas tavemāni japan nāmāni śāmyati

the queen of Vrndavana,

rādhā kṛṣṇa-vanādhīśā mukunda-madhu-mādhavī
govinda-preyasī-vṛnda-mukhyā vṛndāvaneśvarī

1. Radha' is the empress of Krsna's forest,

brahmāṇḍa-maṇḍalottaṁsa-kīritḥ kārtika-devatā
dāmodara-priya-sakhī rādhikā vārṣabhānavī

the presiding deity of the month of Karttika,

bhānu-bhakti-bharābhijñā vṛṣabhānu-kumārikā
mukharā-prāṇa-dauhitrī kīrtidā-kīrti-dāyinī

10. expert in worshiping the sun-god,

kṛṣṇa-premābdhi-karī vatsalācyuta-mātṛkā
sakhī-maṇḍala-jīvātur lalitā-jīvitādhikā

14. the makari fish in the ocean of pure love for Krsna,

viśākhā-prāṇa-sarvasvaṁ kāruṇyāmṛta-medurā
paurṇamāsī-pṛthu-prema-pātrī subala-nanditā

18. Visakha's everything,

kṛṣṇādhirāja-mahiṣī vṛndāraṇya-vihāriṇī
viśākhā-sakhya-vikhyātā lalitā-prema-lālitā

22. the queen of Vrndavana's king,

sadā kiśorikā goṣṭha-yuvarāja-vilāsinī
govinda-prema-śikṣārtha-naṭī-kṛta-nijāṁśakā

26. eternally young,

prabodhinī-niśānṛtya-māhātmya-bhara-darśinī
candrakānti-carī sarva-gandharva-kula-pāvanī

29. who observes a festival of dancing to glorify Lord Krsna on the sacred Prabodhani night,

svajanma-bhūṣitottuṅga-vṛṣabhānu-kula-sthitiḥ
lāsya-vidyā-vrata-snātā rāsa-krīḍādi-kāraṇam

32. She whose birth decorates the noble dynasty of King Vrsabhanu,

rāsotsavaya-pura-gaṇyā kṛṣṇa-nīta-rahaḥ-sthalā
govinda-bandha-kavarī kṛṣṇottaṁsita-kuntalā

35. the first person in the rasa-lila festival,

vyakta-goṣṭhāravindākṣi vṛndotkarṣāti-harṣiṇī
anna-tarpita-durvāsā gāndharvā śruti-viśrutā

39. She who is delighted by the Lord who attracts the lotus-eyed girls of Vraja,

gāndharvikā svagāndharva-vismāpita-balācyutā
śaṅkhacūḍāri-dayitā gopī-cūḍāgra-mālikā

43. She who is expert at singing, dancing, and playing musical instruments,

cāru-gorocanā-gaurī gārutmata-nibhāmbarā
vicitra-paṭṭa-camarī-cāru-veṇī-śikhā-ruciḥ

47. whose beautiful complexion is fair as gorocana,

padmendu-jaitra-vaktra-śrī-niruddha-mura-mardanā
cakorikā-camatkārī-hari-hāri-vilocanā

50. whose beautiful face, which has already conquered both the lotus and the moon, holds Lord Krsna as its prisoner,

kāliya-damanotkampi-bhaṅgura-bhrū-bhujaṅgamā
nāsikā-śikharālambi-lavalī-sthala-mauktikā

52. the snake of whose frowning eyebrows make Lord Krsna, the crusher of Kaliya, tremble,

bandhurādhara-bandhūka-vikṛṣṭa-madhusūdanā
danta-nirdhūta-śikharā śikharīndra-dhara-priyā

54. the bumblebee Krsna is attracted to the beautiful bandhuka flower of whose lips,

kapola-maṇḍalāndoli-maṇi-kuṇḍala-maṇḍitā
pītāṁśuka-śukākarṣi-nistala-stana-dāḍimā

57. who is decorated with jewel earrings swinging to and fro on Her cheeks,

maṇi-kiṅkiṇy-alaṅkāra-jhaṅkāri-śroṇi-maṇḍalā
sthalāravinda-viñcholī-nirmañchita-pada-dyutiḥ

59. whose hips are decorated with tinkling jewelled bells,

ariṣṭa-vadha-narmārtha-nirmāpita-sarovarā
gandhonmādita-govindo mādhava-dvandvatāṅkitā

61. whose favorite lake was constructed because of joking words spoken after the killing of Aristasura,

kālindī-kūla-kuñja-śrīr bhāṇḍīra-taṭa-maṇḍanā
dhṛta-nandīśvara-sthemā govardhana-darī-priyā

64. who is the goddess staying in the forest by the Yamuna's shore,

vaṁśī-baḍiśikā-biddha-rasottarṣa-mano-jhaṣā
vaṁśikā-dhvani-viśraṁsi-nīvī-bandha-grahāturā

68. the fish of whose heart, which thirsts after nectar, is pierced by the hook of Krsna's flute,

mukunda-netra-śapharī vihārāmṛta-dīrghikā
nija-kuṇḍa-kuḍuṅgāntas tuṅgānaṅga-rasonmadā

70. who is a nectar-pond playground for the saphari fish of Mukunda's eyes,

kṛṣṇa-bhrū-caṇḍa-kodaṇḍoḍḍīna-dhairya-vihaṅgamā
anurāga-sudhā-sindhu-hindolāndolitācyutā

72. the bird of whose peacefulness flies away when the archer Krsna lifts His fearsome eyebrow-bow,

vrajendra-nandanāsyendu-tuṅgitānaṅga-sāgarā
anaṅga-saṅgarottṛṣṇa-kṛṣṇa-luñcita-kañcukā

74. whose ocean of amorous desire is agitated by the rising of the moon of the prince of Vraja's face,

līlā-padma-hatoddāma-narma-lampaṭa-keśavā
hari-vakṣo-hari-grāva-haritālīya-rekhikā

76. who, hearing the outrageous jokes of the debauchee Kesava, struck Him with Her toy lotus flower,

mādhavotsaṅga-paryaṅkā kṛṣṇa-bāhūpadhānikā
rati-keli-viśeṣoha-sakhī-smita-vilajjitā

78. who reclines on the couch of Lord Madhava's chest,

ālī-puro-rahaḥ-keli-jalpotka-hari-vandinī
vaijayantī kalābhijñā vana-srak-śilpa-kalpinī

81. who, eager to describe Her intimate pastimes to Her friends, become a poet glorifying Lord Hari,

dhātu-citrātivaicitrī-visṛṣṭi-parameṣṭhinī
viadagdhī-prathamācāryā cāru-cāturya-citritā

84. who is another creator Brahma in the art of drawing beautiful pictures in mineral colors,

asādhāraṇa-saubhāgya-bhāgyāmṛta-taraṅginī
maugdhya-pragalbhatā-ramyā dhīrādhīrāṅka-bhūṣitā

87. who is an ocean filled with nectar waves of extraordinary good fortune,

śyāmala-pracchada-paṭī mūka-nūpura-dhāriṇī
nikuñja-dhāma-saṁskāra-mādhavādhvekṣaṇa-kriyā

90. who covers Herself with a black cape,

prādurbhūta-ghanotkaṇṭhā vipralambha-viṣaṇṇa-dhīḥ
prātar utprāsitopendrā candrāvali-kaṭākṣiṇī

93. who became filled with anxiety,

anākarṇita-kaṁsāri-kākū-vādā manasvinī
cāṭukāra-hari-tyāga-jātānuśaya-kātarā

97. who turned a deaf ear to Krsna's sweet words,

dhṛta-kṛṣṇekṣaṇotsukyā lalitā-bhīti-māninī
viprayoga-vyathā-hāri-hari-sandeśa-nanditā

100. who longed to see Krsna again,

madālpa-jalpitādhīna-puṇḍarīkākṣa-maṇḍitā
bhrū-līlā-mohitopendra-hastāgra-hṛta-vaṁśikā

103. who is decorated by a lotus-eyed person under the dominion of Her murmered words of love,

atulācyuta-mādhurya-svādanādvaita-bhāgya-bhūḥ
niyuddha-śrānti-nidrāṇa hari-hārāpahāriṇī

105. who is the abode of the transcendental good fortune of the taste of the unparalleled sweetness of infallible Krsna,

dyūta-nirjita-vaṁśārthi-kaṁsāri-parihāsinī
nija-prāṇārbuda-preṣṭha-kṛṣṇa-pāda-nakhāñcalā

107. who laughed at Krsna when He begged Her for the flute She won in the dice game,

iti rādhā sakhī-vācam ācamya pulakāñcitā
chadmanā padmanābhasya latā-sadmāntikaṁ gatā

After sipping Her friend's words, Radha, the hairs of Her body erect with ecstati love, on the pretext (of gathering flowers, went near Lord Krsna's vine-cottage.

yaḥ sevate jano rādhā-nāmnām aṣṭottaraṁ śatam
nāmnā prema-sudhā-satraṁ lihyāt prema-sudhām asau

May the person who serves these 108 names of Sri Radha' drink this nectar of transcendental love, which bears the name Prema-sudha-sattra (the sacrificial offering of the nectar of pure love).

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