Plate XIII

Hang On My Eears the Jewelled Earrings,
O Accomplished Youth!

Plate 13 of 16


The Sanskrit text on the painting from Canto XII of the Gita Govinda reads:

nayana kuranga taranga
vikasanira sakare srutimandale
manasi japasavila sadhare
subhavesa nivesaya kundale

"Hang on my ears the jewelled ear-rings, O accomplished youth,
Whence the antelopes of thine eyes may run downwards and sport at pleasure."