page_title: Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali
section_title: Theme
hierarchical_section_title: Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali / Theme
caption_attribution_description: English: Radha and Krishna idol for Raas festival display at a Jagaddhatri Puja pandal in Kolkata
context_page_description: Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali is a collection of Vaishnava lyrics composed in Brajabuli by Rabindranath Tagore. It was published in 1884. These lyrics, which were earlier brought out in several issues of Bharati magazine, were first anthologized in 1884. Later, Tagore described composing these songs in his reminiscences Jiban Smriti. Rabindranath Tagore wrote his first substantial poems titled Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali in Brajabuli under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha at age sixteen.Rabindranath took the name from his name Rabi means sun synonym of Bhanu and Indro means moon synonym of simha, so Rabi+indro = Vanu+simha.
  The anthology has 22 songs out of which only nine exists in Swarabitan, collection of notations of Tagore's music.
context_section_description: The Bhanusimha poems chronicle the romance between Radha and Krishna which is a traditional theme of Indian poetry. The poet sought connection with divinity through appeal to nature and the emotional interplay of human drama. He repeatedly revised the poems over the following seventy years. Song VIII of Bhanusimha Thakurer Padavali:
  গহন কুসুমকুঞ্জ-মাঝে মৃদুল মধুর বংশি বাজে,
  বিসরি ত্রাস-লোকলাজে সজনি, আও আও লো।
  পিনহ চারু নীল বাস, হৃদয়ে প্রণয়কুসুমরাশ,
  হরিণনেত্রে বিমল হাস, কুঞ্জবনমে আও লো॥
  ঢালে কুসুম সুরভভার, ঢালে বিহগ সুরবসার,
  ঢালে ইন্দু অমৃতধার বিমল রজত ভাতি রে।
  মন্দ মন্দ ভৃঙ্গ গুঞ্জে, অযুত কুসুম কুঞ্জে কুঞ্জে,
  ফুটল সজনি, পুঞ্জে পুঞ্জে বকুল যূথি জাতি রে॥
  দেখ সখি, শ্যামরায় নয়নে প্রেম উথল যায়,
  মধুর বদন অমৃতসদন চন্দ্রমায় নিন্দিছে।
  আও আও সজনিবৃন্দ, হেরব সখি শ্রীগোবিন্দ
  শ্যামকো পদারবিন্দ ভানুসিংহ বন্দিছে॥
  Gohon kushumokunjo-majhe mridulo modhuro bongshi baje,
  Bishori trash-loukolaje shojoni, ao ao lou.
  pinaha (meaning: attire) charu nil bash, hridoye pronoyokushumorash,
  Horinonetre bimol hash, kunjobonme ao lo.
  Dhale kushumo shurobhobhar, dhale bihoga shuroboshar,
  Dhale indu omritodhar bimol rojoto bhati re.
  Mondo mondo bhringo gunje, oyuto kushumo kunje kunje,
  Phutolo shojoni, punje punje bokulo yuthi jati re.
  dekha sakhi, Shyamoray noyone prem utholo jai,
  Modhuro bodono omritoshodono chondromai nindichhe.
  Ao ao shojonibrindo, herobo shokhi Shri Goubindo
  Shyamkou podorobindo Bhanushingho bondichhe.
caption: The Bhanusimha poems chronicle the romance between Radha and Krishna which is a traditional theme of Indian poetry.
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