harir eá¹£a na ced avÄtariá¹£yan
mathurÄyÄá¹ madhurÄká¹£i rÄdhikÄ ca
abhaviá¹£yad iyaá¹ vá¹›thÄ visṛṣá¹ir
makarÄá¹…kas tu viÅ›eá¹£atas tadÄtra
hariḥ - Lord Kṛṣṇa; eá¹£aḥ - this; na - not; cet - if; avÄtariá¹£yat - would have descended; mathurÄyÄm - in MathurÄ; madhura-aká¹£i - O lovely-eyed one (PaurṇamÄsÄ«); rÄdhikÄ - ÅšrÄ«matÄ« RÄdhikÄ; ca - and; abhaviá¹£yat - would have been; iyam - this; vá¹›thÄ - useless; visṛṣá¹iḥ - the whole creation; makara-aá¹…kaḥ - the demigod of love, Cupid; tu - then; viÅ›eá¹£ataḥ - above all; tadÄ - then; atra - in this.
“O PaurṇamÄsÄ«, if Lord Hari had not descended in MathurÄ with ÅšrÄ«matÄ« RÄdhÄrÄṇī, this entire creation — and especially Cupid, the demigod of love — would have been useless.â€
This verse is spoken by ÅšrÄ« Vá¹›ndÄ-devÄ« in the Vidagdha-mÄdhava (7.3) of ÅšrÄ«la RÅ«pa GosvÄmÄ«.
