RĀDHĀ BAYAHSANDI
The Growing-up of Rādhā
3. Her eyes are elongated just when she grows up: or possibly the poet means that she then first artificially extends their length with a line of collyrium.
14. 'Mahesha,' i.e. a Shiva-lingam, Cf [I], 11, and [LXVI], 10.
1, 2. Sometimes she flashes sidelong glances, sometimes she veils her face.
8. 'And vital feelings of delight
Shall rear her form to stately height.
Her virgin bosom swell.'
Wordsworth.
9, 10. The attraction of music for deer is a favourite motif of Rājput paintings, particularly in the representation of certain rāgiṇīs (Torī, etc),—see Coomaraswamy, 'Arts and Crafts of India and Ceylon,' fig. 78. In another poem Vidyāpati has:
For when she hears love's language spoken,
She turns away her eyes,—and lends her ears.