Text 7.120

कालियस्य फण-रत्न-कुट्टिमं कुट्टयन् पद-सरोज-घट्टनैः |
मङ्गलानि वितनोतु ताण्डवे पण्डितः स विशिखण्ड-शेखरः ||

kāliyasya phaṇa-ratna-kuṭṭimaṃ kuṭṭayan pada-saroja-ghaṭṭanaiḥ |
maṅgalāni vitanotu tāṇḍave paṇḍitaḥ sa viśikhaṇḍa-śekharaḥ ||

kāliyasya—of Kāliya; phaṇa—on the hoods; ratna—in the form of jewels; kuṭṭimam—the mosaic; kuṭṭayan—while striking; pada-saroja—of the lotus feet; ghaṭṭanaiḥ—with the moves; maṅgalāni—much auspiciousness; vitanotu—may He make; tāṇḍave—at dancing; paṇḍitaḥ—expert; saḥ—He; viśikhaṇḍa—is a special peacock’s tail feather; śekharaḥ—on whose crest.

May He who wears a peacock’s feather on His head and who showed expertise in dancing while striking the mosaic in the form of the jewels on Kāliya’s hoods with the moves of His lotus feet increase auspiciousness. (Rūpa Gosvāmī’s Aṣṭādaśa-cchandaḥ-stava 16)

atra vīraḥ. ghrāṇodghūrṇakety-ādi, atra bībhatsaḥ.

The verse features vīra-rasa (heroism). An example with bībhatsarasa is the verse that begins ghrāṇodghūrṇaka (4.35).

Commentary:

The vīra-rasa is secondary. The subject of description is Kṛṣṇa’s dancing on Kāliya’s hoods. The phonemes of ojas (vigor) (8.23) are used here to suggest the eminence of Kṛṣṇa’s domination (this is the vīra-rasa), otherwise those sounds would constitute an instance of pratikūla-varṇa (adverse phonemes) (7.53) (śruti-kaṭu in a sentence).