अधरं मधुरं वदनं मधुरं नयनं मधुरं हसितं मधुरम् ।
हृदयं मधुरं गमनं मधुरं मधुराधिपतेरखिलं मधुरम् ॥१॥
वसनं मधुरं चरितं मधुरं वचनं मधुरं वलितं मधुरम् ।
चलितं मधुरं भ्रमितं मधुरं मधुराधिपतेरखिलं मधुरम् ॥२॥
वेणुर्मधुरो रेणुर्मधुरः पाणिर्मधुरः पादौ मधुरौ ।
नृत्यं मधुरं सख्यं मधुरं मधुराधिपतेरखिलं मधुरम् ॥३॥
गीतं मधुरं पीतं मधुरं भुक्तं मधुरं सुप्तं मधुरम् ।
रूपं मधुरं तिलकं मधुरं मधुराधिपतेरखिलं मधुरम् ॥४॥
करणं मधुरं तरणं मधुरं हरणं मधुरं रमणं मधुरम् ।
वमितं मधुरं शमितं मधुरं मधुराधिपतेरखिलं मधुरम् ॥५॥
गुञ्जा मधुरा माला मधुरा यमुना मधुरा वीची मधुरा ।
सलिलं मधुरं कमलं मधुरं मधुराधिपतेरखिलं मधुरम् ॥६॥
गोपी मधुरा लीला मधुरा राधा मधुरा मिलनं मधुरम् ।
दृष्टं मधुरं शिष्टं मधुरं मधुराधिपतेरखिलं मधुरम् ॥७॥
गोपा मधुरा गावो मधुरा यष्टिर्मधुरा सृष्टिर्मधुरा ।
दलितं मधुरं फलितं मधुरं मधुराधिपतेरखिलं मधुरम् ॥८॥
adharaṃ madhuraṃ vadanaṃ madhuraṃ nayanaṃ madhuraṃ hasitaṃ madhuram |
hṛdayaṃ madhuraṃ gamanaṃ madhuraṃ madhurādhipaterakhilaṃ madhuram ||1||
vasanaṃ madhuraṃ caritaṃ madhuraṃ vacanaṃ madhuraṃ valitaṃ madhuram |
calitaṃ madhuraṃ bhramitaṃ madhuraṃ madhurādhipaterakhilaṃ madhuram ||2||
veṇurmadhuro reṇurmadhuraḥ pāṇirmadhuraḥ pādau madhurau |
nṛtyaṃ madhuraṃ sakhyaṃ madhuraṃ madhurādhipaterakhilaṃ madhuram ||3||
gītaṃ madhuraṃ pītaṃ madhuraṃ bhuktaṃ madhuraṃ suptaṃ madhuram |
rūpaṃ madhuraṃ tilakaṃ madhuraṃ madhurādhipaterakhilaṃ madhuram ||4||
karaṇaṃ madhuraṃ taraṇaṃ madhuraṃ haraṇaṃ madhuraṃ ramaṇaṃ madhuram |
vamitaṃ madhuraṃ śamitaṃ madhuraṃ madhurādhipaterakhilaṃ madhuram ||5||
guñjā madhurā mālā madhurā yamunā madhurā vīcī madhurā |
salilaṃ madhuraṃ kamalaṃ madhuraṃ madhurādhipaterakhilaṃ madhuram ||6||
gopī madhurā līlā madhurā rādhā madhurā milanaṃ madhuram |
dṛṣṭaṃ madhuraṃ śiṣṭaṃ madhuraṃ madhurādhipaterakhilaṃ madhuram ||7||
gopā madhurā gāvo madhurā yaṣṭirmadhurā sṛṣṭirmadhurā |
dalitaṃ madhuraṃ phalitaṃ madhuraṃ madhurādhipaterakhilaṃ madhuram ||8||
Meaning
1. Sweet are his lips, sweet his face, sweet his eyes, sweet his smile; sweet his heart, sweet his walk. Everything about the Lord of sweetness is sweet.
2. Sweet his garments, sweet his deeds, sweet his words, sweet the turn of his body; sweet his movements, sweet his wanderings. Everything about the Lord of sweetness is sweet.
3. Sweet his flute, sweet the dust of his feet, sweet his hands, sweet his feet; sweet his dance, sweet his friendship. Everything about the Lord of sweetness is sweet.
4. Sweet his song, sweet his yellow cloth, sweet his eating, sweet his sleep; sweet his form, sweet his tilaka. Everything about the Lord of sweetness is sweet.
5. Sweet his doings, sweet his crossing over (the Yamuna), sweet his stealing, sweet his play; sweet the things he gives away, sweet his calm. Everything about the Lord of sweetness is sweet.
6. Sweet his gunja-berry necklace, sweet his garland, sweet the Yamuna, sweet her ripples; sweet her water, sweet her lotuses. Everything about the Lord of sweetness is sweet.
7. Sweet the gopis, sweet his lila, sweet is Radha, sweet their meeting; sweet his glance, sweet his courtesy. Everything about the Lord of sweetness is sweet.
8. Sweet the cowherd boys, sweet the cows, sweet his staff, sweet his creation; sweet his crushing (of the wicked), sweet his bearing of fruit. Everything about the Lord of sweetness is sweet.
About this bhajan
Shri Vallabhacharya, founder of the Pushti Marg, gave the Vaishnava world this little song in which one word, madhuram, sweet, falls more than eighty times. "Madhuradhipati" is the Lord of sweetness, and every line names one more thing about Shri Krishna, his lips, his flute, the dust of his feet, the ripples of the Yamuna, until nothing is left out. Children learn it before they learn its meaning. Readings differ a little: many singers give the seventh verse as "yuktam madhuram muktam madhuram" where this text, following Wikisource, has "Radha madhura milanam madhuram", and the fifth verse is often sung with "smaranam" for "ramanam".
Madhurāṣṭakam of Śrī Vallabhācārya, Sanskrit Wikisource (मधुराष्टकम्), verses 1–8