Nishanta lila Verses 82-91

The manjaris clean the ananga's battlefield

Verse 82
Now the manjaris collect the previous night's seva paraphernalia.
Someone carries a golden lota, someone picks up a golden-handled chamara,
another manjari takes a jeweled mirror,
another picks up the colorful chandan box and the jeweled pan containers,
while another seva dasi takes the sharika Manjubhashini in her golden cage.
Thus the manjaris joyfully exit from the kunja bhavan, following the Divine Couple.

Verse 83
Another manjari smilingly carries away the special kunkum canister that is shaped like a proud Vraja ramani's breast. It is made from ivory, studded with gold, and has a blue sapphire cap

.Rasa-tarangini Tika:
With a playful smile and giggling, this rasavati manjari taunts Sri Krishna by dangling the kunkum canister before his eyes. Her motive is to remind him of Ramani-mani Rai's superb kucha yugala. They increase the pride of all her maidservants.

Verse 84
One clever manjari gathers the loose pearls from the bed and wraps them in her garment. They belong to Radha's necklce which broke in her loving tussle with Krishna.
Verse 85
Sri Rati Manjari quickly scurries to the flower bed, retrieves a set of earrings, and then comes outside to replace them on Srimati's ears.
Verse 86
Sri Rupa then recovers Radhika's kanchuli (blouse) from a corner of the flower bed and privately returns it to her.

Rasa-tarangini Tika:
Once, after enjoying with Krishna, Radha forgot to cover herself with a kanchuli and Lalitaji took the opportunity to tease her:

kāṅculi chāriyā āji bujhi tumi puruṣa
sājiyā vilāsa-vikrama matiāchile

"I see you took off your blouse like a man preparing for battle! You must want to take the male role in order to overpower Krishna in Kandarpa's battle!"

It is to protect Radha from this type of joking that Śri Rupa secretly returns her kanchuli, and Śrimati smiles to express her gratitude.

Verse 87
Śri Guna Manjari takes hold of the spittoon and freely distributes the prasadi pan to the sakhis.
Verse 88
Then Manjulali Manjari goes to the bed, recovers the prasadi flower garlands and chandan, and exits from the keli mandir to distribute them.

Rasa-tarangini Tika:
In the previous shlokas, Srila Kaviraj Goswami directs his attention to the manjaris' seva. Herein he mentions the names of Sri Rupa, Sri Rati, Sri Guna and Manjulali Manjari. If we add Sri Rasa, Sri Vilasa, Sri Labanga and Sri Kasturi Manjari, Sri Radha's topmost group of seva dasis are formed. These chief eight manjaris are renowned as Radha's "Ashta Manjaris." Just as the Ashta-sakhis especially predominate, these Ashta Manjaris direct all of the other manjaris in lila seva. Their identities in Gaura lila are as follows:
• Śri Rupa Manjari - Śri Rupa Goswami
• Śri Rati Manjari - Śri Raghunath Das Goswami
• Sri Labanga Manjari - Śri Sanatan Goswami
• Śri Guna Manjari - Śri Gopal Bhatta Goswami
• Śri Vilasa Manjari - Śri Jiva Goswami
• Śri Rasa Manjari - Śri Raghunath Bhatta Goswami
• Śri Manjulali Manjari - Śri Lokanath Goswami
• Śri Kasturi Manjari - Śri Krishna Das Kaviraj 

At this time, Sri Prabodhananda Saraswati prays for jhāru-sevā, the privilege to sweep the floor of the kunja. Yet while rapt in the lila, he hears the following conversation:
"Oh hey! I am not the Trinavarta asura, so don't pierce my neck with your nails! And don't mistake me for Putana either, so stop pinching my breast nipples!" 

Thus he prays as a Vraja gopi: "Oh sakhi Radhe! While sweeping your keli mandir in the early morning, when will I overhear the parrots repeating such rasamaya-kathā, the words that you exchanged with your vilasi nagara!'" (Radha-rasa-sudha-nidhi, 164)

Prabodhananda Saraswati is Tungavidya Sakhi in Vraja and in his Radha-rasa-sudha-nidhi, he reveals his intense desire to engage in Radha's dasya-rasa.

Verse 89
The sakhis giggle, covering their mouths with their hands, seeing Radhika's blue garment adorning Krishna's body and his lightning-colored pitambara wrapped around her. They exchange frolicking glances to share their amusement.

Rasa-tarangini Tika:
The sakhis wonder, "What has caused this mix-up in Radha-Shyama's apparel?" In jest someone declares, "Syama's belonging are dear to Radha, as Radha's belongings are dear to Shyama. These garments have understood this truth and spontaneously exchanged places!" 

Another sakhi disagrees, "Na, na, I think that during Radha Krishna's prema keli, these clothes felt neglected when they were case aside. Being jealous, they took shelter of their opposites!" In this way, the sakhis rasamaya-katha continues.

Vers 90
The sakhis' laughter puzzles Radha and Krishna. Thus they curiously glance at each other-and yet again become subjugated! Hence, Sri Yugala Kishor look like painted pictures deeply merged within a swelling ocean of bliss!

Verse 91
Just as one cannot detect milk inside a conchshell due to the matching colors, Radha was unable to recognize her meghambara against Krishna's cloud-like complexion. Similarly, Krishna's pitambara is unnoticeable against Srimati's golden bodily effulgence. Krishna's garment is pitambara, "bright yellow cloth," and Radha's cloth is meghambara, "cloth the color of a deep blue cloud".