ॐ नमः शिवाय ॐ THE POEMS OF LALLA OF KASHMIR JK/NKK 2

JK/NKK 2
lalith lalith vaday bà va:y,
tsyata: muhàc pyayiy ma:y     |
roziy nà patà loh-langaràc tsha:y,
niza svaru:p kya: môThuy ha:y     ||

Lalit, Lalit, I will weep for you.
O Mind, you have fallen under the spell
of maya.
Even the shadow of worldly possessions
will desert you.
You have forgotten
your own nature.
Why this foolishness?

Note: "lalith" is a double meaning, and can also be translated as "slowly" or "gently." But these meanings can only be considered to be secondary; the first meaning is her own name, by which she addresses herself. (Of all the other authors who have written on Lalla's poems, only Shambhu Nath Bhatt and Janki Nath Bhan, authors of the 1971 Köshur Sama:cha:r collection, have gotten this right.) In her poems, Lalla generally calls herself "Lali," which is a short form of "Lalita," a name of Parvati, consort of Shiva. Here she uses a slightly fuller form of that name. Other theories, such as that "lal" referred to a big belly that hung over her pudenda, thus protecting her modesty, are imaginative and creative, but lack any evidence in her poems or elsewhere.

ॐ नमः शिवाय ॐ