śrī yamunā cālīsā

A Braj chalisa to the Yamuna, and it addresses her as Krishna's beloved before it addresses her as a river — sporting always with her dear one, the essence of the Vedas, the support of Krishna's life. That order is the whole difference between this and the Ganga texts, since what makes the Yamuna holy here is not descent from heaven but the place where the god played. Its dohas promise that sin is wiped out by seeing her and by touching her, and that Shesha and Mahesha bow to her; and one calls her manifested in the world for the sake of release. It belongs with the Braj pilgrimage rather than with the Sanskrit river hymns in this corpus, and its language is the Braj of the Vallabhite and Radhavallabhi households that keep her worship.