Vṛndāvana & Kāliya · VIII. Forest Fires · Demons

Verse 69

गोपीविरहसन्तप्तो गोपिकाकृतमज्जनः ।प्रलम्बबाहुर् उत्फुल्लपुण्डरीकावतंसकः॥

gopīvirahasantapto gopikākṛtamajjanaḥ ·pralambabāhur utphullapuṇḍarīkāvataṃsakaḥ

The Names in This Verse (4)

326 gopīvirahasantaptaḥ

scorched by separation from the gopīs

S.B.G 10.29.13

Burned by separation from the gopīs — though Kṛṣṇa is supremely full, in the līlā he plays at the suffering of viraha (separation) when he tests the gopīs.

327 gopikākṛtamajjanaḥ

bathed by the hands of the gopikās

S.B.G 10.22.1

Whose bath was made by the gopīs — the Kātyāyanī-vrata episode begins with the gopīs bathing in the Yamunā as part of their month-long worship; Kṛṣṇa's bath is a constant gopī-service.

328 pralambabāhuḥ

the long-armed

S.B.G 10.18.20

'Of long arms (pralamba-bāhu)' — Kṛṣṇa's arms are described as reaching down to his knees, a mark of regal beauty in the Vedic anatomy; same epithet for Rāma in the Rāmāyaṇa.

329 utphullapuṇḍarīkāvataṃsakaḥ

crowned with a full-blown white lotus

S.B.G 10.22.4

With a fully-blossomed white lotus as ear-ornament — the gopīs see Kṛṣṇa with this ornament at the Kātyāyanī episode; the image is celebrated in devotional poetry.