Painting R\u0101dh\u0101’s forehead<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n karp\u016br\u0101guru-k\u0101\u015bm\u012b ra-pa\u1e45ka-mi\u015brita-candanai\u1e25 |<\/em> Vishakha prepares a body powder of camphor, aguru, kunkum and chandana; then she anoints R\u0101dh\u0101’s arms, chest, breasts and back with this fragrant mixture.<\/p>\n kast\u016br\u012b -patra-vall\u012b -samudaya-khacita\u1e41p\u0101r\u015bvayor \u0101kapola\u1e41<\/em> Vishakha paints the Kama-yantra tilak<\/strong> on Rai Kishori’s forehead. Sri Yadunandana Thakur says: Krisha-bhavanamrita adds: After defeating Uma’s husband Shiva, R\u0101dha captured the moon-sliver from his head and placed it on her forehead! Now Sringara Rasa has personally appeared in the form of this Kama-yantra!<\/p>\n As Lalita Devi uses kasturi to paint dolphins on R\u0101dh\u0101’s soft cheeks<\/strong>, she calls out to Cupid, who is also known as Makara-ketana or Makara-dhvaja, <\/strong>meaning the one who has dolphins on his standard<\/strong>, and says: “Hey Kandarpa! Come and sit on this asana! Then you’ll see that during raho keli (intimate pastimes), you will be worshiped by Sri Krishna’s red tongue!”<\/p>\n Lalita then instructs the two dolphins: “Oh Makari-yugal! When Krishna’s dolphin earrings touch you-marry them! As they serve the ears of the killer of Aghasura, they destroy all sins and thus your lives will be successful!” (Krisha-bhavanamrita 4.66-68)<\/p>\n pu\u1e63 pa-gucchendu-lekh\u0101bja-makar\u012b -c\u016bta-pallavam |<\/em> m\u012b n\u012b pras\u016bna-nava-pallava-candra-lekh\u0101<\/em> Chitra Sakhi takes up a brush to paint kasturi flower clusters<\/span><\/strong>, lotuses, dolphins, mango-buds and moon silver <\/span><\/strong>above R\u0101dh\u0101’s kucha yugala. One might conclude that when Kamadeva saw the mere arching of R\u0101dh\u0101’s eyebrows, he instantly fled love’s battlefield, abandoning all his weapons in this kucha yugala storehouse!<\/p>\n The dolphin<\/strong> is Kamadeva’s carrier.<\/strong> The clusters of flowers<\/span> <\/strong>mentioned are The sliver moon<\/strong><\/span> is Kandarpas bow<\/strong>. In R\u0101dh\u0101-rasa-sudha-nidhi<\/strong>, Prabodhananda Saraswati advises: citr\u0101rpit\u0101neka-vicitra-ratnamukt\u0101cit\u0101 rakta-duk\u016bla-col\u012b |<\/em> Chitra Devi covers R\u0101dh\u0101’s breasts with a red kanchuli embroidered with jewels and pearls. It looks like a rainbow in a star-clustered sky with the sun setting over two mountains.<\/strong><\/p>\n The embroidered gems are compared to a rainbow, the red blouse to the sky at sunset; the pearls are like the stars and her kucha yugal like two mountains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Verses 77-80 Decorating R\u0101dh\u0101 I Painting R\u0101dh\u0101’s forehead Verse 76 karp\u016br\u0101guru-k\u0101\u015bm\u012b ra-pa\u1e45ka-mi\u015brita-candanai\u1e25 | sam\u0101lipya vi\u015b\u0101kh\u0101’sy\u0101\u1e25 p\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e6d ha\u1e41b\u0101hu-kuc\u0101v ura\u1e25 ||76|| Vishakha prepares a body powder of camphor, aguru, kunkum and chandana; then she anoints R\u0101dh\u0101’s arms, chest, breasts and back with this fragrant mixture. Verse 77 kast\u016br\u012b -patra-vall\u012b -samudaya-khacita\u1e41p\u0101r\u015bvayor \u0101kapola\u1e41 bh\u0101le \u015br\u012b kha\u1e47\u00f2a-bind\u016btkara-v\u1e5b tam abhita\u1e25 k\u0101ma-yantr\u0101bhidh\u0101nam…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-govinda-lilamrita"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7389"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7572,"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389\/revisions\/7572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Verse 76<\/h4>\n
\nsam\u0101lipya vi\u015b\u0101kh\u0101’sy\u0101\u1e25 p\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e6d ha\u1e41b\u0101hu-kuc\u0101v ura\u1e25<\/em> ||76||<\/p>\nVerse 77<\/h4>\n
\nbh\u0101le \u015br\u012b kha\u1e47\u00f2a-bind\u016btkara-v\u1e5b tam abhita\u1e25 k\u0101ma-yantr\u0101bhidh\u0101nam |<\/em>
\nanta\u1e25-kast\u016brikodyan-malayaja-\u015ba\u015babh\u1e5b l-lekhay\u0101dha\u015b cita\u1e41s\u0101<\/em>
\ncakre s\u012b manta-rekh\u0101nvitam atha tilaka\u1e41s\u0101ndra-sind\u016bra-pa\u1e45kai\u1e25<\/em> ||77||<\/p>\n
\nIt has a large dot of red kunkum <\/strong>surrounded by small dots of chandan;<\/strong>
\nand at its base is a larger circle of chandan<\/strong> having a small black spot of kasturi<\/strong> in its center.
\nOn both sides of the tilak, Vishakha uses kasturi to paint pictures of leaves<\/strong> that extend to R\u0101dh\u0101’s cheeks. At last, a brilliant red line of kunkum<\/strong> is placed between the part in R\u0101dh\u0101’s hair.<\/p>\nRasa-tarangini Tika:<\/h6>\n
\nk\u0101ma-yantra n\u0101ma ei lalita tilak heriy\u00e4 k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47era hoy sarv\u0101\u1e45ge pulaka
\n<\/em>When Krishna sees this beautiful Kama-jantra tilak, his hairs stand erect!<\/p>\nDecorations of R\u0101dh\u0101’s breasts<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n
Verse 78<\/h4>\n
\nlilekha citra\u1e41kast\u016bry\u0101 citr\u0101 tat-kucayos ta\u1e6d e ||78||
\n<\/em><\/p>\n
\nvy\u0101j\u0101t sva-cihna-\u015bara-kunta-dhan\u016b\u1e41si k\u0101ma\u1e25 |<\/em>
\ntad-bhr\u016b-dhanur-dhavana-m\u0101tra-nirasta-karm\u0101<\/em>
\nmanye nyadhatta nija-tat-kuca-ko\u1e63 a-gehe ||79||<\/em><\/p>\nRasa-tarangini Tika:<\/h6>\n
\nashoka<\/span> <\/strong>and nava-mallika<\/span>.<\/strong> The lotus is the pink species (aravinda<\/span>)<\/strong>.
\nWhen mango buds<\/span> <\/strong>are included, these ingredients form Cupid’s panca-bana (five flower arrows) <\/strong>which cause
\nallurement, intoxication, torture and paralysis.<\/p>\n
\nSeeing R\u0101dh\u0101’s arching eyebrows, however, Cupid became afraid, dropped his bow, and admitted defeat-placing his weapons <\/strong>in the storehouse of R\u0101dh\u0101’s breasts! <\/strong>
\nHence, all of Cupid’s powers lie here!<\/p>\n
\n“Oh mind! Just go to Vrindavan and meditate on Sri Vrishabhanu-nandini’s golden jug-like breasts, for they have the power to subjugate a million Cupids! Thus, Gokula-kishor-chandra’s life and soul are preserved within these two indescribable treasure chests!”<\/p>\nVerse 80<\/h4>\n
\nkucau bhaj\u0101lendra-dhanur-vicitr\u0101<\/em>
\ntast\u0101ra \u015bail\u0101v iva s\u0101ndhya-k\u0101nti\u1e25 ||80||<\/em><\/p>\nRasa-tarangini Tika:<\/h6>\n