{"id":7577,"date":"2024-07-24T06:29:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T04:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/?p=7577"},"modified":"2024-07-24T06:29:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T04:29:21","slug":"verses-86-99-necklaces-that-decorate-radha-decorating-radhas-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/verses-86-99-necklaces-that-decorate-radha-decorating-radhas-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Verses 86-99 Necklaces that decorate R\u0101dh\u0101 Decorating R\u0101dh\u0101’s hands"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Verses 86-99 Necklaces that decorate R\u0101dh\u0101
\nDecorating R\u0101dh\u0101’s hands<\/h2>\n

Necklaces that decorate R\u0101dh\u0101<\/strong><\/p>\n

Verse 86
\nPadma-lochana (lotus eyed) R\u0101dh\u0101’s neck is contoured like a conchshell. And Krishna’s hand is marked with a symbol of a conchshell. Anticipating that Krishna might grab R\u0101dh\u0101’s neck (because its beauty defeats his hand symbol), Vishakha covers it with a special ornament that resembles a row of golden leaves inset with gems<\/strong>.
\nVerse 87
\nAt the base of Radhika’s neck, Vishakha places a golden swan locket <\/strong>having a chain of diamonds <\/strong>and blue sapphires<\/strong> that offset Srimati’s beautiful face.
\nVerse 88
\nVishakha places Sri Radhika devi’s renowned pearl necklace <\/strong>named gostana (looking like the teats of a cow)<\/strong> over her chest. And patterned with the pearls are blue sapphires having a gold bead on either side.
\nVerse 89
\nNext Vishakha places another necklace<\/strong> over Srimati’s heart made from beads of sapphire, moon stone, pearls, coral, gold and padmaraga<\/strong>.
\nVerse 90
\nShe takes the necklace <\/strong>named Guccha<\/strong> and places it around Rai Kishori’s neck. This dazzling ornament is made from pearls with vaidurya mani<\/strong> and alternative golden beads <\/strong>molded in the shape of amalaki fruits<\/strong>.
\nVerse 91
\nOnce during Rasa lila, Rai binodini’s spectacular dancing completely overwhelmed Krishna! Thus he took off his own gunja-mala and placed it around her neck (to honor her as Raseshwari). This reputed mala, <\/strong>(celebrated as Raja-Lakshmi <\/strong>herself),\u00a0is placed by Vishakha around Srimati’s neck.
\nVerse 92
\nNext Vishakha decorates the sky of Radhika’s chest with the shining pearl necklace called ‘ekabali.’<\/strong> The pearls resemble a galaxy of stars<\/strong> joined with a huge pearl in the center <\/strong>that looks like the full moon.
\nVerse 93
\nAt last Vishakha adorns Rai-mani’s chest with a golden swan locket enlaid with diamonds and padmaraga gem stones.<\/strong> This decorative piece has a large blue sapphire in the center and hangs from a golden chain.
\nRasa-tarangini Tika:
\nA locket is called a padak. In Krishna-bhavanamrita, this particular padaka is called the Dhruva-padaka<\/strong>. Because Krishna occasionally appears in Dhruva-loka, it is called Hari-dhama (the residence of Hari). Similarly, owing to its mirror-like surface, Krishna’s reflection often appears within this Dhruva-padak.
\nVerse 94
\nAll of these necklaces are tied in the back with silken tassles placed one over the other. The colorful tassles look so beautiful, as though the Creator built a stairway from her nitamba-parvat extending up her snake-veni to her head.<\/p>\n

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Decorating R\u0101dh\u0101’s hands<\/strong>
\nVerse 97
\nLalita next decorates R\u0101dh\u0101’s wrists with golden bangles inset with pearls. Now it appears that the sun, the moon and Rahu have all merged together.
\nVerse 98
\nFrom the center, numerous silken tassles attractively dangle; they are tied to an array of glittering jewels and a golden madhulika.
\nRasa-tarangini Tika:
\nHere the sun is compared with R\u0101dh\u0101’s golden bangles, their inlaid pearls are like many moons, and the indra-nilamani bracelets represents Rahu. A madhulika (or maduli) is a small canister-shaped amulet inside where sacred articles are placed. Mother Yashoda also ties a maduli around Krishna’s arm that carries the Nrisingha mantra to protect him.<\/p>\n

Krishna-bhavanamrita tells that the black tassles dangling from R\u0101dh\u0101’s bangles are named pahuchi. They resemble the net of bird hunter. This interesting net is bound to R\u0101dh\u0101’s golden creeper-like wrist by the hunter named Madan (Cupid) who is eager to capture the chakora bird of Krishna’s mind. (Krishna-bhavanamrita 4.85)<\/p>\n

Verse 99
\nR\u0101dh\u0101rani wears a fine golden chain on the back side of her hand that is fastened to her rings and the bangles on her wrists. In the center, her own name R\u0101dh\u0101 is inscribed. This ornament is called vipaksha-mada-mardini <\/strong>because its elegance destroys the pride of all Radhika’s beautifully dressed rivals like Chandravali and others.
\nRasa-tarangini Tika:
\nIn Krishna-bhavanamrita, some details about Radhika’s rings are mentioned: R\u0101dh\u0101 wears rings on every finger except the middle, index, and thumb of her right hand.
\nHer fingernail moons take shelter of her lotus hand. If someone should ask, “The moon is the lotus flower’s enemy, so why does it take shelter of it?” The answer is that R\u0101dh\u0101’s lotus hand awards auspiciousness. Therefore, the greatness of these two lotuses and their superior strength cause these moons to fearfully surrender. When the stars, Radhika’s rings, see the behavior of their husbands, Radhika’s fingernail moons, they take the lotus petals’, Radhika’s fingers’, shelter also. (Krishna-bhavanamrita 4.86)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Verses 86-99 Necklaces that decorate R\u0101dh\u0101 Decorating R\u0101dh\u0101’s hands Necklaces that decorate R\u0101dh\u0101 Verse 86 Padma-lochana (lotus eyed) R\u0101dh\u0101’s neck is contoured like a conchshell. And Krishna’s hand is marked with a symbol of a conchshell. Anticipating that Krishna might grab R\u0101dh\u0101’s neck (because its beauty defeats his hand symbol), Vishakha covers it with a…<\/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-7577","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\/7577","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=7577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7578,"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577\/revisions\/7578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}