Text 11.15

[This is another example of kāraka-gupti,]

साकं सखीभिर् आगत्य काननेऽस्मिन् दिने दिने ।
उत्काप्य् उत्काय मे राति राधा वामतया बत ॥

sākaṃ sakhībhir āgatya kānane'smin dine dine |
utkāpy utkāya me rāti rādhā vāmatayā bata ||

sā—She; akam—unhappiness; sakhībhiḥ—with the friends; āgatya—after arriving; kānane asmin—in this forest; dine dine—every day; utkā—She is eager; api—although; utkāya—who am eager; me—to Me; rāti—gives; rādhā—Rādhā; vāmatayā—due to huffiness; bata—alas (or what a wonder).

Rādhā comes in this forest every day with Her friends. I long for Her, but alas, although She has eagerness too, She makes Me unhappy because of Her huffiness. (Govinda-līlāmṛta 18.21)

atrākam iti karma.

Here the object of the verb was concealed: akam (unhappiness).

Commentary:

The word sākam usually means “with”. This seems to be the case here, since it is placed next to a word which has a third case ending, yet sākam must be separated as sā (she) and akam (unhappiness), otherwise the transitive verb rāti (she gives) has no object. This is the kind of kāraka-gupti (concealment of a word which has a case ending) called karma-gupti (concealment of a word in the object case). In addition, the commentator Vṛndāvana Cakravartī points out that sākam can be separated as sā (she) and kam (happiness).^[1] Thus the verse is also an example of śleṣa. The sense is: “Rādhā makes Me happy by being in a huff. How amazing!” This constitutes a saṅkara of karma-gupti and śleṣa.

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

me mahyaṃ kaṃ sukhaṃ na kam akaṃ duḥkhaṃ vā rāti dadāti. bata khede. atra sākam iti karma-padaṃ guptam (Sadānanda-vidhāyinī 18.21).