Ashtapathi Bhajan - Part III
7. Shri Raadhika's plight of suffering due to Viraha Thaapam and started blabbering like a mad person in imagination of Krishna being in company of other Gopis.(13th, 14th, 15th and 16th Ashtapadis - 7th Sargam called: "Vipralabhdha Varnane Naagareeka Naaraayana").
8. In the dawn Sri Krishna arriving at Raadhika's Kutir and Raadhika, in anger, drives away Krishna saying 'YAAHI MAADHAVA".(17th Ashtapadi - 8th Sargam called:"Kkhanditha Varnane Vilaksha Lakshmipadi:").
9. Sakkhi, criticising about Raadhika's angry mood which mades Krishna disappear. The Sakkhi advices Her to behave well when He comes next. Raadhika realises Her faults and repents.(18th Ashtapadi - 9th Sargam called:"Kalahaantharitha Varnane Mugddha Mukundah").
10. Sri Krishna reappearing before Raadhika and pacifying Her with His sweet words like: you are my Jeeva, you are my ornament, you are my Pearl etc. and pleads for Her forgiveness and goes away.(19th Ashtapadi - 10th Sargam called : "Radha Varnane Mugddha Maadhavah").
11. Sakkhi, pointing out to Raadhika about the kindness of Krishna and His behaviour and that She should now go to Krishna's place and unite with Him & please Him. Raadhika visits Krishna Mandir(where Krishna was waiting to receive Her) and gets thrilled in his darshan. (20th, 21st and 22nd Ashtapadis - 11th Sargam called: "Saanada Govindah").
12. Both enter the house & become united.Krishna does alankaaram to Raadhika, whose dresses were crumbled and displaced during the Union.Thus ends the Sringaara Rasa Kaavyam.(23rd and 24th Ashtapadis - 12th Sargam called: "Swadheena Barthrukaa Varnane Supreetha Peethaambarah").
The sanctity of Ashtapadi:
It is said that the Ashtapadi Kaavyam of Sri Jayadeva has been blessed by the Lord Himself, about which the 19th Ashtapadi vouchsafes. In this 19th Ashtapadi, in the seventh stanza, he wrote as if Lord has suffered from Kaamam (passion) & only Raadhikaa's feet kept on His head will bring down the Thaapam and the Lord pleading to Raadhika to place Her feet onto His head. Suddently, Jayadeva realises his mistake and feels how he could think of a lady's feet being kept on the Lord. He repented and erased the stanza and tried to re-write it. Having no ideas to pour he thought he could do later and gave the Kaavyam to Padmavathi to keep it safe and that he would go for oilbath. After some time, he came and called to Padmaavathi to bring the Kaavyam as he had some good idea and wanted to fill up where he left the song. With the oil soaked hand he wrote some lines and gave back the Kaavyam to her and went for bath. After meals while taking rest, he opned the Kaavyam and saw, to his surprise, the seventh stanza having got filled up with what ever he originally wrote. He got wild and scolded Padvaavathy for being negligent, for someone else has come and written what he did not want to write. Padmaavathy in sheer surprise, narrated what happened when he went for bath. Jayadeva realised that God has come in Jayadeva's form and filled up the unfinished stanza with the same idea that occured to him originally. This means that Lord himself has accepted the stanza, and finally the Kaavyam itself.After this, the final Charanam of some Ashtapadis are all ending with "Jayathu Padmaavathi Ramana Jayadeva Kavi" because Jayadeva considered her as the blessed Bhaktha of the Lord & he wanted to be known through her, since Padmaavathy got the Darshana of Lord and not Jayadeva. Thus, this Ashtapadi has its acceptance by the Lord Himself. The 22nd Ashtapadi is said to be the Kalyaana Ashtapadi, since it is here that Raadhika comes to Krishna and Krishna accepts her and makes her happy. To indicate the reunion, this is called Kalyaana Ashtapadi.