88 G. A. Grierson— Twe^ity-one Vaishnava Hymns. [Sp. No. 
4. Her full bosom would assuredly break, if love had not tied it 
with the string of three fair folds below. 
5. Saras Ram telleth of Radha’s beauty, and king Sundar knoweth 
the sentiment. 
XVI. 
Jayadeb. 
The soul is described as being on the point of abandoning itself to 
God. 
i 
3jrff fftfuT: Brftr, TKst n 
ilFcT II 
’^T^isfi ^ ^ 5ITFcr 'g%T^ II 
5IiT FTSTf, ?fKH g 
s» ^ C\ 
%TH wn?: iit% ii 
rftf wv % srTfnfsr, fitsi g 
KT^iT FT?;rEIF, qifq 5^^^% || || 
Translation 16. 
1 ? 
1. Fair one, haste to the love-meeting. Even now will the moon 
arise. Darkness will desert the night, and the means of obtaining* love 
be removed. 
2. Lovely one, expose not thy face, or on all sides will there be a 
bright light. The Chakorf will take thy face for the risen moon, and 
covetous of thine ambrosia, will coaxingly (approach you, taste it) and 
go away. 
3. Speak not inadvertently with thine ambrosial voice, or others 
will think it nectar. When the bee seeth thy face he will take it for an 
open waterlily, and will sip the honey of thy lower lip. 
4. Thou art desirous of love and it is a night in the month of Chai- 
tra.;|; (So haste) as thou desirest to return home. The new poet Jaya¬ 
deb sang this before Raja Sib Singh Rup Narayan. 
* ^TT, literallyt ‘ a shop.’ 
t The Greek partridge, Perdix rufa, said to be enamoured of the moon, and to 
exist on moonbeams, and the ambrosia contained in it. 
J March-April. In this month people are supposed to be inclined to oversleep 
themselves. She is hence warned not to oversleep herself, or she will have to re¬ 
turn after sunrise, and her absence will be observed. 
