पापानि पापिनां यांति तीर्थस्नानावगाहनात्
The sins of sinners depart through bathing and immersion in holy places.
न हि स्थातुं शक्नुवंति पापान्येव कृतानि च
Indeed, committed sins cannot remain there.
भक्तं वर्त्मनि गच्छंतं ये ये पश्यंति मानवाः 4.1.
Whoever sees a devotee walking on the path,
ये निंदंति हृषीकेशं तद्भक्तं पुण्यरूपिणम्
Those who revile Hrishikesha or his devotee, who is the embodiment of virtue,
ते पच्यंते महाघोरे कुंभीपाके भयानके
They are cooked in the dreadful and terrifying Kumbhipaka hell.
तस्य दर्शनमात्रेण पुण्यं नश्यति निश्चितम्
By merely seeing him, one's merit is certainly destroyed.
वैष्णवस्पर्शमात्रेण मुक्तो भवति पातकी
By merely touching a Vaishnava, even a sinner becomes liberated.
इत्येवं कथितो विप्र विष्णुवैष्णवयोर्गुणः
Thus, O Brahmin, the qualities of Vishnu and the Vaishnavas have been described.
यं यं विधाय भूमौ स जगाम स्वालयं विभुः
Whatever he established on earth, the Lord then returned to his own abode.
भारावतरणोपायं दुष्टानां च वधोद्यमम्
The means for removing the burden and the effort for destroying the wicked.
अधुना गोपवेषं च गोकुलागमनं हरेः
Now, the Lord's adoption of the cowherd form and His arrival in Gokula.
शंखचूडवधं पूर्वं संक्षेपात्कथितं श्रुतम्
The slaying of Shankhachuda was previously narrated briefly and heard.
श्रीदाम्नः कलहश्चैव बभूव राधया सह
A quarrel arose between Shri Dam and Radha.
राधां शशाप श्रीदामा याहि योनिं च मानवीम्
Shri Dam cursed Radha, saying, 'Go and take birth in a human womb.'
भीता श्रीदामशापात्सा श्रीकृष्णं समुवाच ह
Frightened by Shri Dam's curse, she spoke to Shri Krishna.
कमुपायं करिष्यामि वद मां भयभंजन
I will undertake a means to fulfill desire; tell me, O destroyer of fear.
क्षणमेकं युगशतं कालनाथ त्वया विना
O Lord of Time, a single moment without You is like a hundred ages.
शरत्पार्वणचंद्राभं क्षुधापूर्णाननं तव 4.2.
Your face, full with hunger, is like the moon on the autumn festival night.
त्वमात्मा मे मनः प्राणा देहमात्रं वहाम्यहम्
You are my soul, my mind, my life; I merely carry this body.
स्वप्ने ज्ञाने त्वयि मनः स्मरामि त्वत्पदांबुजम्
In dream and in waking, my mind remembers Your lotus feet.
कृष्णस्तद्वचनं श्रुत्वा बोधयामास सुंदरीम्
Krishna, hearing those words, instructed the beautiful one.
महीतलं गमिष्यामि वाराहे च वरानने
I will descend to the earth, O beautiful-faced one, in the Varaha age.
व्रजं गत्वा व्रजे देवि विहरिष्यामि कानने
Going to Vraja, O goddess, I will delight in the forests there.
किं वा तस्य भयं कंसाद्भयांतकारकस्य च
What fear could there be for him, the destroyer of Kamsa and of fear itself?
विजहार तया सार्धं गोपवेषं विधाय सः
He sported with her, adopting the cowherd form.
ब्रह्मणा प्रार्थितः कृष्णः समागत्य महीतलम्
Krishna, requested by Brahma, descended to the earth.
नारद उवाच संक्षेपात्कथितं पूर्वं संव्यस्य कथयाधुना ।। 4.2.
Narada said: Previously, the story was told briefly; now narrate it in detail.
एकदा राधया सार्धं गोलोके श्रीहरिः स्वयम्
Once, together with Radha, Shri Hari Himself was in Goloka.
राधिकासुखसंभोगाद् बुबुधे न स्वकं परम्
Absorbed in the pleasure of union with Rādhikā, he was unaware of anything else, even himself.
गोपिकां विरजामन्यां शृङ्गारार्थं जगाम ह
For the sake of love, he went to another gopī, Virajā.