Love
Fair-face, red brow-spot, there-behind the heavy
Translated by Ananda Coomaraswamy and Arun Sen (1915) · From Bangiya Padabali (trans. 1915)
Krishna:
Fair-face, red brow-spot, there-behind the heavy
jet-black hair--
As if the sun and moon together rising left the night behind.
Ah damsel fair! with what and what devoted care,
Has Nature given to you the utmost beauty of the moon.
A grass green bodice binds your breasts, a glimpse is
only seen;
So jealously you cover them,--but never snow may hide
the hills!
Dark sūrm decks your curving restless eyes.
As if the bees would rest their weight upon some
wind-bent lotus.
Hearken, young thing, says Vidyāpati; these charms,
you know them all,--
Witness be Rājā Shivasimha Rūpanārāyana
and Lakshmī Devī.
Codex Note
The First Passion of Krishna, V
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Vidyapati. “Fair-face, red brow-spot, there-behind the heavy.” Translated by Ananda Coomaraswamy and Arun Sen. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/vidyapati/4/.
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Vidyapati. “Fair-face, red brow-spot, there-behind the heavy.” Translated by Ananda Coomaraswamy and Arun Sen. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/vidyapati/4/.
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