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Her hair, dishevelled, veils the beauty of her face as evil shadows eat the glowing moon.

VIDYĀPATI (विद्यापति) — Love Songs of Vidyapati [Ed. W. G. Archer], transl. by Deben Bhattacharya, (1970)

First Love

The new moon stirs pangs of love.

Scratches mar her proud young breasts.

Often hidden, sometimes they lie revealed

like treasure in the hands of the poor.

Now she has known first love,

desires flood her mind,

she trembles with delight.

Safe from the eyes of gossipy friends,

she studies her reflection in a jewel,

knits her brow, and oh

so tenderly

touches the blossoming

love-bite on her lip.

Vidyapati (15th century)

Here’s another round of pre-partition Bollywood film posters

Vidyapati (1937) dir. Debaki Bose

On all my limbs were spells of love.

VIDYĀPATI (विद्यापति) — Love Songs of Vidyapati [Ed. W. G. Archer], transl. by Deben Bhattacharya, (1970)

Her lips, the hue of dusk.

VIDYĀPATI (विद्यापति) — Love Songs of Vidyapati [Ed. W. G. Archer], on Radha ( राधा), transl. by Deben Bhattacharya, (1970)

Is she an evening star? Is she the pale crescent moon of the wet monsoon sky?

VIDYĀPATI (विद्यापति) — Love Songs of Vidyapati [Ed. W. G. Archer], on Radha ( राधा), transl. by Deben Bhattacharya, (1970)

Her eyes rival lotuses. […] Innocence & beauty adore her skin.

VIDYĀPATI (विद्यापति) — Love Songs of Vidyapati [Ed. W. G. Archer], on Radha ( राधा), transl. by Deben Bhattacharya, (1970)

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