33-38 Dhanishtha’s message
"Listen sakhi! After nicely dressing, Krishna now awaits your arrival while resting on the flower-bed. Casting all other thoughts aside, he vows to only talk about you! O Sumukhi Rai*! Although Krishna is a romantic hero, wicked Kandarpa Raja has shattered his patience! He is restlessly waiting within a flower-kunja filled with buzzing bees and cooing kokilas!"
Radhika is captivated, and Dhanishtha realizes that she wants to hear more
about Krishna's sweetness.
Thus she continues: "Oh chaste one! Who can describe
the beauty of Krishna's form? His soft effulgence resembles a new rain-cloud,
his silken cloth is golden-yellow, dolphin-earrings dangle from his ears and
his entire body is smeared with kumkuma.
Krishna's eyes resemble lotus petals, he is garlanded with a mala of golden Yuthi flowers and a peacock feathered crown rests above his head."
"Oh sakhi Radhe! Just hear a little more about Krishna's
mohana sundar rupa!
His youth forms a great ocean.
Its water is his beauty,
its
high waves are his bodily luster and
its whirlpools are his amorous desires for
Kandarpa keli!
Moreover, his flute-song acts as a hurricane to twirl the gopis'
minds as if they were blades of grass!
Still Krishna anxiously awaits your
arrival!"
"Oh Shashimukhi Rai! Just reward Krishna's craftiness with your craftiness,
his youthful beauty will increase when you offer your beauty,
Krishna's erotic
desires will succeed when they join with yours,
and his fine dress will receive
its crowning touch when you touch it!
O Sakhi! Your charm is rendered useless
when directed elsewhere."
"O Radhe! Krishna is bewildered by love, his heart has melted,
Kandarpa's
arrows pelt him, and he is fully surrendered to you.
After fainting he suffers
from exhaustion!
Therefore, oh Krishna-priya! Please quickly go and save him!"
Vrishabhanu-nandini exhibits ecstatic symptoms as her ears drink Krishna's
kathamrita.
And because Radha's mind is excited, her body becomes paralysed!
Hence patience is forced upon her, even though the desire awakens to act
quickly.