Inscription Remark

Shailka Mishra version: Inscription: chipyo chipakar chit chaiyo [Radha comes] hiding in the shadows of the buildings [chit means place or earth, here it seems to refer to the palace behind.] tam sasi haran samha ri hasti hasti chali [To signify the time i.e. night, the poet says] The moon glows and takes away the darkness [the word used is haran which means kidnap, so literally the moon kidnaps the darkness (tam)] [And] In this atmosphere (samha) [Radha] is walking joyfully [hasti hasti would mean laughing but here it symbolizes Radha's happiness] shashi mukhi mukh te ghoonghat [Radha's] face is like the moon and it is covered with a veil (ghoonghat) vah nayika madhya ko sakhi nayak pasi le jav hai She is the nayika whom the sakhi slowly leads to the nayak [the hero here, Krishna] chandrama chipto dekhi sakhi nayika ka mukh ko pat duri kare hai On seeing the moon hide [behind the clouds] the sakhi removes the veil from her [Radha's] face ki haesti hain hai chali tere mukh ko prakash ho jayego [And remarks that When you] Smile and walk the world lights up [with the beauty of your smile]….. Shailka Mishra, April 2012