8.10

“I see your chest is scarlet-stained with lac from your
beloved’s feet,
as if inner passion were on display for all the world
to see,
And I am humiliated by that, you cheat!
The sight of you makes me more ashamed
than anguished!”

It makes the heads of doe-eyed girls bob with infatuation,
shaking coral blossoms from their hair,
enchanting, delighting, stupefying them,
and making them rave with love;
So too it tempers the terrible misery and distress that
the gods feel
when they are tormented by mad demons;
It is the sound of Krishna’s flute!
May it abolish all misfortune!