Goddess Radha

আনংদ চংদ্ৰিকা স্তোত্ৰম্

(Ananda Chandrika Stotram in Assamese)

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.

॥ আনন্দচন্দ্ৰিকাস্তোত্ৰম্ ॥
ৰাধা দামোদৰপ্ৰেষ্ঠা ৰাধিকা ৱাৰ্ষভানৱী। সমস্তবল্লৱীৱৃন্দধম্মিল্লোত্তংসমল্লিকা॥
কৃষ্ণপ্ৰিযাৱলীমুখ্যা গান্ধৰ্ৱা ললিতাসখী। ৱিশাখাসখ্যসুখিনী হৰিহৃদ্ভৃঙ্গমঞ্জৰী॥
ইমাং ৱৃন্দাৱনেশ্ৱৰ্যা দশনামমনোৰমাম্। আনন্দচন্দ্ৰিকাং নাম যো ৰহস্যাং স্তুতিং পঠেত্॥
স ক্লেশৰহিতো ভূত্ৱা ভূৰিসৌভাগ্যভূষিতঃ। ত্ৱৰিতং কৰুণাপাত্ৰং ৰাধামাধৱযোৰ্ভৱেত্॥
॥ ইতি শ্ৰীৰূপগোস্ৱামিৱিৰচিতং আনন্দচন্দ্ৰিকাস্তোত্ৰং সম্পূৰ্ণম্ ॥

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