Sridama
Sridama has an attractive blackish blue bodily complexion. He wears yellow clothes and is decorated with jeweled necklaces. He is in his illustrious youth of sixteen years. He is very dear to Sri Krishna and is an embodiment of innumerable varieties of blissful pastimes.
Sridama’s father is Sri Vrisabhanu Maharaja and his mother, who is extremely chaste, is Kirtida-devi. Sri Radha and Ananga Manjari are his two younger sisters.
The priya-narma-sakhas
Subala, Arjuna, Gandharva, Vasanta, Ujjvala, Kokila, Sanandana, Vidagdha and other sakhas are famous as priya-narma-sakhas.
There are no confidential topics whatsoever about which these priya-narma-sakhas do not know. Of the priya-narma-sakhas, Madhumangala, Pushpanka, Hasanka and others are Krishna’s vidusakas[1].
Sriman Sanandana is drowned in the happiness of his affectionate friendship with Sri Krishna.
The priya-narma-sakha called Ujjvala is as greatly effulgent (ujjvala) as Rasaraja[2] personified. Even Sri Krishna, who is the crown jewel of all revelers of pastimes (vilasa), becomes enchanted by his pastimes.
[1] The vidusakas are fond of eating and quarrelling; they are experts in flirtatious gestures and in clever speech; and they are talented in dressing themselves up in a funny manner (Jaiva-dharma, Chapter 32).
[2] King of transcendental mellows
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