Goddess Sita

শ্ৰী জানকী জী কী আৰতী

(Shree Janaki Ji Ki Aarti (Hindi) in Assamese)

Also known as janaki ji ki aarti (hindi) · ji ki aarti · arati kijai janakalaliki ramamadhupamana kamalakaliki

A short Braj arati to Janaka's little daughter, and it works by pairing her with Rama in images that need both of them to mean anything. She is the lotus-bud to the bee that is Rama's mind; she is the cakori to the moon of Rama's face; the two deer of her beloved's eyes are tethered to her by a cord, and she is the resting-place where his mind's motion stops. One line puts the conceit outright and is the best in the song: dark within and fair without, because the dark one is inside her. The last verse names her mistress of the world, a treasury of beauty and savour and quality, practised in love, and gives the arati its signature, Harichand, calling her the whole of that poet's wealth. Three stanzas with the refrain returning after each.

আৰতি কীজৈ জনক-ললীকী। ৰামমধুপমন কমল-কলীকী॥
ৰামচংদ্ৰ মুখচংদ্ৰ চকোৰী। অংতৰ সাঁৱৰ বাহৰ গোৰী।
সকল সুমংগল সুফল ফলীকী॥ আৰতি কীজৈ...॥
পিয দ্ৰুগমৃগ জুগ বংধন ডোৰী, পীয প্ৰেম ৰস-ৰাশি কিশোৰী।
পিয মন গতি ৱিশ্ৰাম থলীকী॥ আৰতি কীজৈ...॥
ৰূপ-ৰস-গুননিধি জগ স্ৱামিনি, প্ৰেম প্ৰবীন ৰাম অভিৰামিনি।
সৰবস ধন 'হৰিচংদ' অলীকী॥ আৰতি কীজৈ...॥

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