Song Name: Bhaje Vrajaika Mandanam Samasta Papa Khandanam

Official Name: Krsnastakam

Author: Adi Sankaracarya

Book Name: Brhat Stotra Ratnakara

Language: Sanskrit

LYRICS:

(1)

bhaje vrajaika-maṇḍanaḿ samasta-pāpa-khaṇḍanaḿ

sva-bhakta-citta-rañjanaḿ sadaiva nanda-nandanam

su-piccha-guccha-mastakaḿ su-nāda-veṇu-hastakam

anańga-rańga-sāgaraḿ namāmi kṛṣṇa-nāgaram

(2)

manoja-garva-mocanaḿ viśāla-lola-locanaḿ

vidhūta-gopa-śocanaḿ namāmi padma-locanam

karāravinda-bhūdharaḿ smitāvaloka-sundaraḿ

mahendra-māna-dāraṇaḿ namāmi kṛṣṇa-vāraṇam

(3)

kadamba-sūna-kuṇḍalaḿ su-cāru-gaṇḍa-maṇḍalaḿ

vrajāńganaika-vallabhaḿ namāmi kṛṣṇa-durlabham

yaśodayā sa-modayā sa-gopayā sa-nandayā

yutaḿ sukhaika-nāyakam namāmi gopa-nāyakam

(4)

sadaiva pāda-pańkajaḿ madīya-mānase nijam

dadhānam uttamālakaḿ namāmi nanda-bālakam

samasta-doṣa-śoṣaṇaḿ samasta-loka-poṣaṇaḿ

samasta-gopa-mānasaḿ namāmi kṛṣṇa-lālasam

(5)

bhuvo bharāvatārakaḿ bhavābdhi-karṇadhārakaḿ

yaśomatī-kiśorakaḿ namāmi dugdha-corakam

dṛg-anta-kranta-bhańginaḿ sadā-sadāli-sańginaḿ

dine dine navaḿ navaḿ namāmi nanda-sambhavam

(6)

guṇākaraḿ sukhākaraḿ kṛpākaraḿ kṛpāvaraḿ

sura-dviṣan-nikandanaḿ namāmi gopa-nandanam

navīna-gopa-nāgaraḿ navīna-keli-lampaṭaḿ

namāmi megha-sundaraḿ taḍit-prabhā-lasat-paṭam

(7)

samasta-gopa-nandanaḿ hṛd-ambujaika-mohanaḿ

namāmi kuñja-madhya-gaḿ prasanna-bhānu-śobhanam

nikāma-kāma-dāyakaḿ dṛg-anta-cāru-sāyakaḿ

rasāla-veṇu-gāyakaḿ namāmi kuñja-nāyakam

(8)

vidagdha-gopikā-mano-manojña-talpa-śāyinaḿ

namāmi muñja-kānane pravṛddha-vahni-pāyinam

yadā tadā yathā tathā tathaiva kṛṣṇa-sat-kathā

mayā sadaiva gīyatāḿ tathā kṛpā vidhīyatām

(9)

pramāṇikāṣṭaka-dvayaḿ japaty adhītya yaḥ pumān

bhavet sa nanda-nandane bhave bhave su-bhaktimān

TRANSLATION

1) Eternally I worship Lord Krsna, who is Nanda's son, who is Vraja's sole
ornament, who breaks all sins into pieces, and who delights the devotees' hearts. I
offer my respectful obeisances to the hero Lord Krsna, whose head is decorated with
peacock feathers, whose hand holds a melodious flute, and who is an ocean of
Kamadeva's pastimes.

2) I offer my respectful obeisances to lotus-eyed Lord Krsna, who frees Kamadeva of

his pride, whose large eyes are very restless, and who shakes away the gopas'
sadness. I offer my respectful obeisances to dark Lord Krsna, whose lotus hand
lifted Govardhana Hill, whose smiling glance is charming, and who ripped Indra's
pride into shreds.

3) I offer my respectful obeisances to Lord Krsna, who is difficult to attain, who

wears a kadamba-flower earring, the circle of whose cheeks is very charming, and
who is the only beloved of Vraja's girls. I offer my respectful obeisances to Lord
Krsna, who is a playful cowherd boy, and who, in the company of Yasoda, Nanda, and
the gopa people, enjoys pastimes that delight them all.

4) I offer my respectful obeisances to Lord Krsna, who is Nanda's small boy, and
who eternally places His kunkuma-anointed lotus-feet in my heart. I offer my
respectful obeisances to cheerful Lord Krsna, who dries up all faults, makes all
worlds prosper, and stays in the thoughts of all the gopa people.

5) I offer my respectful obeisances to the milk-thief Lord Krsna, who removed the
earth's burden, who is the captain of the ship to cross the ocean of birth and
death, and who is Yasoda's teenage son. I offer my respectful obeisances to Lord
Krsna, who is Nanda's son, who casts crooked glances from the corners of His eyes,
who always stays with the gopis, and who day after day enjoys newer and newer
pastimes.

6) I offer my respectful obeisances to Lord Krsna, who is a jewel-mine of

transcendental qualities, a jewel-mine of transcendental bliss, a jewel-mine of
mercy, who defeats the demigods' enemies, and who delights the cowherd people. I
offer my respectful obeisances to Lord Krsna, who is a young hero of the cowherd
people, who is a playful young rake, who is handsome and dark like a monsoon cloud,
and whose yellow garments glisten like lightning.

7) I offer my respectful obeisances to Lord Krsna, who delights all the cowherd
people, who charms the devotees' lotus-hearts, who stays in forest groves, and who
is splendid like a glistening sun. I offer my respectful obeisances to Lord Krsna,
who fulfills all desires, whose sidelong glances are charming arrows, whose flute
music is nectar, and who is the amorous hero of the forest groves.

8) I offer my respectful obeisances to Lord Krsna, who reclines on the charming

couch of the wise gopis' hearts, and who drank up a forest fire in Munjatavi
forest. I pray that whenever and however I sing His glories, Lord Krsna will be
merciful to me.

9) I pray that whoever reads or recites these eight prayers will be fervently
devoted to Nanda's son, devoted birth after birth.