Lord Krishna

श्रीकृष्णारार्तिका (शरणागतभीतिनिवृत्तिपरं)

(Shree Krishna Arartika)

Vitthalesha

Also known as krishna arartika · saranagatabhitinivrttiparam parapaksatamonikaramsunidhim

The arati of Vitthalesha, and it is a chain: the syllables that end each line begin the next, so the whole hymn hooks into itself and cannot be taken apart without the joints showing. Devoted to ending the fear of those who have come for refuge, a store of light against the massed darkness of the other side — a store whose lotus feet are served, whose fruit is the turning back of the law of the age; his arms strong enough to give whatever is asked; his hand bright with gems and holding up the best of mountains, that mountain ringed about by the chosen women of the cowherds; the lotus of his hand set with the flute; the foe of the Yadava herd crushed in his fist. It closes by naming three lordships in a single line, and the reach of that line is the point — I salute him, lord of the cowherd settlement, lord of Kamala, lord of Mathura.

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

शरणागतभीतिनिवृत्तिपरं परपक्षतमोनिकरांशुनिधिम् ।
निधिसेवितपादसरोजयुगं युगधर्मनिवर्त्तककालफलम्॥१॥
करजोल्लिखितप्रमदोच्चकुचं कुचकुङ्कुमलिप्तयशोहृदयम्।
हृदयस्थितगोकुलवासिजनं जनसञ्चितपुण्यचयैकफलम्॥२॥
फलदानपरातिसमर्थभुजं भुजदण्डगृहीतकुचाग्रमणिम्।
मणिशोभितहस्तधृताद्रिवरं वरगोपवधूचयसंवलितम्॥३॥
वलितप्रमदायुतरासकरं करपद्मयुगाहितवेणुवरम्।
वरभक्तिशिरःस्थितपद्मकरं करमर्दितयादवयूथरिपुम्॥४॥
रिपुयूथभुजङ्गमदर्पहरं हरपूजितरम्यसरोजपदम्।
पदपद्मयुगार्चनदत्तपदं पदपद्मनखस्थितभक्तिरसम्॥५॥
रसपूरितगोपवधूशारणं शरणागतघोषजनाभयदम्।
भयदाधशिरोहरखङ्गधरं धरणीकृतपुण्यचयैकफलम्॥६॥
फलहेतुविमर्दितदुष्टखरं खरमुक्तिदपादसरोजवरम्।
वरबर्हिशिखण्डिकयुक्तकचं कचपाशिनिवेशितपुष्पचयम्॥७॥
घोषाधिपतिं कमलाधिपतिं वन्दे तमहं मथुराधिपतिम्॥८॥
॥ इति श्रीविठ्ठलेशविरचिता श्रीकृष्णारार्तिका समाप्ता ॥

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