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The Gopis Search for Krishna

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अंखियां हरि–दरसन की प्यासी

Ankhiyan Hari Darsan Ki Pyasi

Surdas
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अंखियां हरि–दरसन की प्यासी। देख्यौ चाहति कमलनैन कौ¸ निसि–दिन रहति उदासी।। आए ऊधै फिरि गए आंगन¸ डारि गए गर फांसी। केसरि तिलक मोतिन की माला¸ वृन्दावन के बासी।। काहू के मन को कोउ न जानत¸ लोगन के मन हांसी। सूरदास प्रभु तुम्हरे दरस कौ¸ करवत लैहौं कासी।।

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Surdas

The Poet

सूरदास

Surdas

The Gopis Search for Krishna

Paired Painting

The Gopis Search for Krishna

This exquisite miniature painting captures a poignant moment from the Bhagavata Purana, where the devoted gopis of Vrindavan wander through the moonlit forest in a tender agony of separation, searching desperately for their beloved Krishna. The artist portrays their emotional turmoil with delicate grace, showing them conversing, peering behind dense trees, and pointing toward the pale moon, embodying the ultimate spiritual yearning of the soul seeking the divine. Every brushstroke breathes with the devotion of the Pahari masters, transforming a landscape of verdant trees and blossoming shrubs into a sacred stage of divine love and longing.

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Four more, in the same key.

Chosen for their rasa and their register, not their popularity. Each one carries some part of what Ankhiyan Hari Darsan Ki Pyasi carries.