Aarti Karat Yashoda Pramudit
आरति करत यसोदा प्रमुदित
Not an aarti to Krishna but a description of one — Yashoda performing it, too full of joy to contain herself.
Dedicated toLord Krishnaआरति करत यसोदा प्रमुदित,फूली अंग न मात।बल-बल कहि दुलरावत,आनन्द मगन भई पुलकात ॥
सुबरन-थार रत्न-दीपावलि,चित्रित घृत-भीनी बात।कल सिन्दूर दूब दधि अच्छत,तिलक करत बहु भाँत ॥
अन्न चतुर्विध बिबिध भोग,दुन्दुभि बाजत बहु जात।नाचत गोप कुंकुमा छिरकत,देत अखिल नगदात ॥
बरसत कुसुम निकर-सुर-नर-मुनि,व्रजजुवती मुसकात।कृष्णदास-प्रभु गिरधर को मुख,निरख लजत ससि-कांत ॥
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Attributed author: Krishnadas, whose signature closes the aarti
Braj · Ashtachhap devotional tradition
Traditional public-domain Braj devotional composition; BhajanDhara transcription and meanings prepared independently
The two editions agree throughout; only orthography differs (सिन्दूर / सिंदूर, कुम्कुमा / कुंकुमा), and the older Braj spelling यसोदा is retained as both editions give it. No modern source translation is reproduced.
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Aarti Kunj Bihari Ki ↗Shri Banke Bihari Teri Aarti Gaun ↗Aarti Shri Krishna Kanhaiya Ki ↗What does Aarti Karat Yashoda Pramudit mean?
Most aartis address the deity. This one watches someone else perform one. The subject throughout is Yashoda — her hands, her tray, her repeated tilak, her inability to hold still — and Krishna appears only in the final line, when the poet looks at his face. It is a small and deliberate inversion: the devotion on display belongs to a mother doing an ordinary thing for her child, and the poem's reverence is directed at her doing it. The signature is Krishnadas, one of the eight Ashtachhap poets.