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RADHARANI KI JAI! MAHARANI KI JAI!
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radharani ki jai, maharani ki jai
bolo barsane vari ki jai jai jai
1. All glories to Radharani! All glory to the greatest of all Queens. Sing the glories of Radharani, who lives in Barsana.
thakurani ki jai, hari priya ki jai
vrsabhanu-dulari ki jai jai jai
2. All glory to Radha Thakurani (Queen Radha), who is the beloved of Sri Hari. All glory to the beloved daughter of King Vrsabhanu.
gaurangi ki jai, hemangi ki jai
vrajaraja-kumari ki jai jai jai
3. All glory to Radharani who has a fair complexion and golden limbs.
vraja-rani ki jai, vraja devi ki jai
gahvara vana vari ki jai jai jai
4. All glory to the Queen of Vraja. All glory to the goddess of Vraja. All glories to Radha who wanders in the Gahvara forest.
GANDHARVA SAMPRARTHAN ASHTAKAM
By Srila Rupa Goswami1. O Goddess! Be merciful to me and reveal Your lotus face to me when You and Sri Krsna play in the play-groves of Vrndavana, enjoying like intoxicated, blissful Lordly elephants!
2. O Goddess! In great distress I prostrate myself before You, falling on he ground, praying piteously unto You with a faltering voice. O Gandharvike! After You bestowed Your mercy on this fool, count him (her) amongst Your own people!
3. O Syame (Sri Radhe)! When will I worship You as Indira (Laksmi), when Your beautiful body is bound up by Syama's left arm? Krsna's beauty enchants all the people of the world and is even greater than that of Rama-Ramana (Lord Visnu, Laksmi's husband).
4. O Goddess! When can I arrange for Your blissful nocturnal meeting with the son of the king of Vraja in the grove by covering Your body with a cloud blue sari and by removing the ankle bells from Your feet?
5. When will this person serve Your lotus feet, that adorn the three worlds by massaging them, as You are sitting together on a playbed made of flowers in a grove, while You are making sweet jokes with each other?
6. O Queen of Vrndavana! When can I fan You with a yaktail fan with a jeweled rod when You and Sri Krsna are sitting under a tree, Your lotus-like faces beautified by drops of perspiration from fatigue after Your pastimes on the shore of Your pond (Sri Radha Kund)?
7. O beautiful-eyed One! It was not me who told Mukunda in which corner of the kunja You were hiding! Citra did it! Don't frown Your eyebrows at me in false anger! When can I take You before the son of the king of Vraja?
8. When You defeat Krsna in a joking argument, You show even greater pride, extending Your proud words to Your blooming friends, who will praise You. When will I see You like this?
9. Anyone who nicely recites these eight prayers to the daughter of king Vrsabhanu will be accepted by Her in a wave of mercy and She will joyfully appear before her with Her lover.
(End of Gandharva Samprarthanastakam)
