Love
Hearken, O Mādhava, what more can I say?
Translated by Ananda Coomaraswamy and Arun Sen (1915) · From Bangiya Padabali (trans. 1915)
Kavi:
Hearken, O Mādhava, what more can I say?
Nought can I find to compare with love:
Though the sun of the East should rise in the West,
Yet would not love be far from the worthy,
Or if I should write the stars of heaven on earth,
Or if I could pour from my hands the water of all the sea.
Vidyāpati says: O Shivasimha Rāi,
To abandon the loving is ever unmeet.
Codex Note
Reunion and the Flow of Nectar, CXXXVII
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Vidyapati. “Hearken, O Mādhava, what more can I say?” Translated by Ananda Coomaraswamy and Arun Sen. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/vidyapati/136/.
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Vidyapati. “Hearken, O Mādhava, what more can I say?” Translated by Ananda Coomaraswamy and Arun Sen. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/vidyapati/136/.
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