{"id":64955,"date":"2024-02-17T02:54:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T06:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=64955"},"modified":"2024-02-16T02:01:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T06:01:30","slug":"srimati-radharanis-maidservants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/srimati-radharanis-maidservants\/","title":{"rendered":"Srimati Radharani’s Maidservants"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Srimati Radharani’s maidservants<\/span><\/h3>\n

Her maidservants Sugandha and Nalini are daughters of a barber, and Manjishtha and Rangaraga are a washerman\u2019s daughters.<\/span><\/p>\n

The maidservant who dresses and decorates Radharani is called Palindri and the one who decorates Her is Citrini. The two maidservants who keep Her informed about destined future events[1]<\/a> are Mantriki and Tantriki.<\/span><\/p>\n

Katyayani and other female messengers are older than Radharani. The two maidservants Bhagyavati and Punjapunya are daughters of a sweeper.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bhringi, Malli and Matalli are young Pulinda girls. Some of them are considered to be in Krishna\u2019s party (krishna-paksha) and some in Radha\u2019s (radha-paksha).<\/span><\/p>\n

Gargi and other prominent brahmanis; Bhringarika and other maidservants; Subala, Ujjvala, Gandharva, Madhumangala, Raktaka and other servants; Vijaya and others; Rasala and others; Payoda and others; and the group of vitas and others are Radharani\u2019s servants and maidservants.<\/span><\/p>\n

The maidservants Tungi, Pisangi, Kalakandala, Manjula, Bindula, Sandha and Mridula always remain by Radha\u2019s side and carry Her possessions. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Radharani\u2019s cows are Sunada, Yamuna, Bahula and others. They have offspring every year and give birth only to male calves. Her dear female calf Tungi is quite strong and well nourished, and Her old female monkey\u2019s name is Kakkhati. Her doe\u2019s name is Rangini and Her female cakori bird is called Caru-candrika.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her female swan is called Tundikeri. She sports in Radharani\u2019s own pond called Radha-kunda.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her peahen is called Tundika and Her two female parrots are named Sukshmadhi[2]<\/a> and Subha[3]<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

These two female parrots recite the charming songs that Lalita-devi composes about the pastimes of her Mistress and Master, Radha and Krishna. The parrots utter the wonderful poetry of the songs with exceedingly sweet voices and thus awaken an astonishing rasa in the minds of the sakhis.<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> Scripture of astrology<\/span><\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> This name means “refined intelligence”<\/span><\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Auspicious, charming<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is a section of the book \u201cSri Sri Radha Krishna Ganoddesa Dipika\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

To buy the complete book,<\/span>\u00a0click above<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Srimati Radharani’s maidservants Her maidservants Sugandha and Nalini are daughters of a barber, and Manjishtha and Rangaraga are a washerman\u2019s daughters. The maidservant who dresses and decorates Radharani is called Palindri and the one who decorates … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":48840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,189],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-64955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-kadacha-eng","tag-radha-krishna-ganoddesa-dipika-eng"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 08:47:52","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\/64955","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=64955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}