Love
Hari has gone to Mathurā town.
Translated by Ananda Coomaraswamy and Arun Sen (1915) · From Bangiya Padabali (trans. 1915)
Rādhā:
Hari has gone to Mathurā town.
And Gokula is void to-day,
My ribs are all shrunken with weeping,
The cows are roaming on the road to Mathurā.
Herdsmen and maidens no more wandering
Beside the Jamunā's banks,--
I shall cast my life away in the waves,
And I will be born again as Kānu!
Then shall Kānu be Rādhā,
To suffer the pangs of love.
Vidyāpati gives this advice:
No need for weeping now!
Codex Note
Reproaches, Lack and Longing, C
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Vidyapati. “Hari has gone to Mathurā town.” Translated by Ananda Coomaraswamy and Arun Sen. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/vidyapati/99/.
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Vidyapati. “Hari has gone to Mathurā town.” Translated by Ananda Coomaraswamy and Arun Sen. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/vidyapati/99/.
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