Goddess Radha

आनंद चंद्रिका स्तोत्रम्

(Ananda Chandrika Stotram)

Sri Rupa Goswami

Also known as ananda chandrika stotra · radha damodaraprestha radhika varsabhanavi samastaballavivrndadhammillottamsamallika

Ten names of Rādhā by Rūpa Gosvāmī, which the poem calls a secret praise and titles the moonlight of bliss. The names are chosen to place her by relation rather than by attribute: dearest to Dāmodara, daughter of Vṛṣabhānu, the jasmine at the crest of the braided hair of all the cowherd women, first in the line of Kṛṣṇa's beloveds, Gāndharvā, the friend of Lalitā, made happy by Viśākhā's friendship, and the blossom-cluster on which the bee that is Hari's heart settles. Naming her through her companions rather than through her own qualities is the Gauḍīya method, since her sakhīs are held to be the medium through which she is approached at all. What is promised is correspondingly indirect — the reciter becomes free of affliction and quickly an object of the compassion of Rādhā and Mādhava together.

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Script: Devanagari (देवनागरी) — also the script of Hindi, Marathi, Nepali and Konkani.

॥ आनन्दचन्द्रिकास्तोत्रम् ॥
राधा दामोदरप्रेष्ठा राधिका वार्षभानवी। समस्तबल्लवीवृन्दधम्मिल्लोत्तंसमल्लिका॥
कृष्णप्रियावलीमुख्या गान्धर्वा ललितासखी। विशाखासख्यसुखिनी हरिहृद्भृङ्गमञ्जरी॥
इमां वृन्दावनेश्वर्या दशनाममनोरमाम्। आनन्दचन्द्रिकां नाम यो रहस्यां स्तुतिं पठेत्॥
स क्लेशरहितो भूत्वा भूरिसौभाग्यभूषितः। त्वरितं करुणापात्रं राधामाधवयोर्भवेत्॥
॥ इति श्रीरूपगोस्वामिविरचितं आनन्दचन्द्रिकास्तोत्रं सम्पूर्णम् ॥

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