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Radharani\u2019s Manjaris: Tattva & Lilas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The jubilant sakh\u012bs left the forest cottage carrying various articles, including a golden pitcher, a polished mirror and a fan with a golden handle. One sakh\u012b held a multicolored bowl filled with ku\u1e45kuma and sandalwood. Another grasped a jeweled case filled with betel nuts and someone else clutched a caged parrot. One sakh\u012b smiled slightly as she emerged from the ku\u00f1ja holding a small, gold inlay ivory sindh\u016br[1]<\/a> casket that was shaped like two budding breasts and studded with sapphires.<\/span><\/p>\n

One sakh\u012b collected all the pearls that had fallen from the necklaces broken by R\u0101dh\u0101-M\u0101dhava\u2019s firm embraces, and happily tied them in the edge of her veil. Rati-ma\u00f1jar\u012b found an earring that had fallen on the bed during R\u0101dh\u0101-M\u0101dhava\u2019s conjugal skirmishes. She left the ku\u00f1ja and immediately fixed it on R\u0101dh\u0101\u2019s ear. The sakh\u012b named R\u016bpa-ma\u00f1jar\u012b snatched up R\u0101dh\u0101\u2019s bodice from the edge of the bed and privately returned it to Her. Gu\u1e47a-ma\u00f1jar\u012b took the spittoon with R\u0101dh\u0101-M\u0101dhava\u2019s chewed betel nuts and distributed the pras\u0101dam to the sakh\u012bs outside the cottage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ma\u00f1jul\u0101l\u012b-ma\u00f1jar\u012b gathered the garlands and sandalwood pulp that had fallen from R\u0101dh\u0101-M\u0101dhava\u2019s bodies and divided it amongst the sakh\u012bs. The sakh\u012bs, seeing Krishna wearing R\u0101dh\u0101\u2019s blue cloth and R\u0101dh\u0101 wearing His yellow cloth, covered their mouths with their delicate hands to conceal their laughter. They shared the bliss swelling in their hearts by passing subtle glances to each other to indicate the exchange of clothing.<\/span><\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Vermilion<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is a section of the book \u201cVrindavana Lila\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  The jubilant sakh\u012bs left the forest cottage carrying various articles, including a golden pitcher, a polished mirror and a fan with a golden handle. One sakh\u012b held a multicolored bowl filled with ku\u1e45kuma and sandalwood. … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":48631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-vrindavana-vrajamandala"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 00:12:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}