Verse 30
What the women of the city said· Verses 21–30
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21This surely is that ancient Person, who alone was, without any distinction, within himself, before the strands were, when in the night the powers slept and the self lay closed within the Lord who is the self of the world. 22He again, urged on by his own power and eager to create, followed after nature, the maya belonging to the living selves that is his own, wishing to give form and name within that self which has neither form nor name; and he it is who made the scriptures. 23This surely is he whose state the wise behold here, their senses mastered and their breath subdued, by a self made spotless and opened out through devotion; he it is who can make our being clean.
24Friend, this surely is he whose true story is sung in the Vedas and in the hidden texts by those who speak of what is hidden, who alone is Lord, and by the play of the world's own self sends it forth, guards it and takes it back, and is not caught in it. 25For when kings whose minds are in darkness live by wrongdoing, then he, through clarity, takes on majesty and truth, right order, compassion and fame, assuming forms age after age for the world's flourishing. 26How altogether praiseworthy is the line of Yadu, how altogether holy the forest of Madhu, since this bull among men, the lord of Sri, does them honour by being born there and by walking about there.
27And Kusasthali, how it puts the fame of heaven to shame and makes the earth's fame holy, where the people see always their own lord's smiling glance, sent out upon them in favour. 28Surely, friend, the Lord was worshipped with vows and bathings and offerings and the rest by those whose hands he took, who again and again drink the nectar of his lip, and for whose sake the women of Vraja were altogether bewildered. 29Those who were carried off at their own choosing, valour being the price, when he crushed Caidya and the other blustering ones; and others, the mothers of Pradyumna and Samba and Amba and the rest; and those brought by thousands at the killing of Bhauma:
30these indeed make womanhood good, which is otherwise stripped of grace and of purity; for from their houses the lotus-eyed husband never departs, touching their hearts with his attentions.