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J. N. Rae —Baiswdri Folic Songs. 
Translation. 
[No. 2, 
O my beloved, wliy dost tliou forget me in tlie foreign land ? 
1 , Tlion hadst gone and settled in Bindraban, 
And from time to time sendedst letters oi jog from the foreign land. 
0 my beloved, wliy dost thon forget me, etc. 
2, But now tlion hast gone and residest in Dwarika, 
And makest love with the hnnch-backed woman in the foreign land. 
O my beloved, why dost thon forget me, etc. 
When Krish’nji left Radhikaji he went over to Dwarika and there 
assumed the title of a king ; there he is said to have fallen in love with 
a certain hnnch-backed woman known in Hindu mythology as Kubja or 
Knbri. There is a legend to this effect that by the touch of the divine 
hands of Krish’nji this ugly creature was transformed into a most beauti¬ 
ful woman of graceful form and figure. In this song Radhika alludes 
to this awkward intrigue of her lover and twits him with his faith¬ 
lessness.* 
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* [‘ Letters of jog ’ apparently means letters on the subject of practising asceti¬ 
cism. Mr. Grierson points out a parallel passage in a song of Sur Das, in which 
that poet recounts a number of beneficent acts traditionally ascribed to Krish’n, 
such as his assistance to the Pandavas, his jirotection of Draupadi, the destruction of 
Hiranyakasipu, etc. Among them the poet adds : dpu jdl Divdnkd haithe likhi liTchi 
jog pathdi. The same statement also occurs in another of Sur Das’ songs, in which 
Radha is represented as complaining about Krish’n that while he himself is in¬ 
dulging in amorous intercourse with Kubri and the Gopis, he exhorts her to devote 
herself to the practice of asceticism : ap ne jdi prem ras chdkhe ham ko likhi likhi 
jog pathdwe, i. e., ‘ while he himself is gone (to Gokul) to enjoy the sweets of love, 
he writes to mo to recommend asceticism.’—E d.] 
