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Yamunashtakam
यमुनाष्टकम् १
Yamunāṣṭakam 1
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जलान्तकेलिकारिचारुराधिकाङ्गरागिणी स्वभर्तुरन्यदुर्लभाङ्गताङ्गतांशभागिनी । स्वदत्तसुप्तसप्तसिन्धुभेदिनातिकोविदा धुनोतु नो मनोमलं कलिन्दनन्दिनी सदा ॥६॥
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- जलान्तकेलिकारिचारुराधिकाङ्गरागिणी स्वभर्तुरन्यदुर्लभाङ्गताङ्गतांशभागिनी । स्वदत्तसुप्तसप्तसिन्धुभेदिनातिकोविदा धुनोतु नो मनोमलं कलिन्दनन्दिनी सदा ॥६॥
- Taking delight in the rapture of Radha's limbs in water-sport, sharing in the limb-contact hard for any other to gain with her own lord, exceedingly skilled at dividing the seven sleeping oceans she herself gave, may Kalinda's daughter wash away our mind's impurity.
She who shares Krishna's embrace in water-sport and once split the seven oceans shows Shakti as the power of the Lord in play and in cosmic deed; the mind's stain dissolves where divine intimacy and world-sustaining might are known as one.
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