Into the Twilight of Sanskrit Court Poetry by Knutson Jesse Ross;

Author:Knutson, Jesse Ross;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of California Press

Nāgarī Rādhā listen up.

Hear my words:

All your girlfriends fill up their water

And go to the city (nagar) on their own. (8)33

Earlier when Rādhā defends herself against a charge of stealing fruits and flowers from Kṛṣṇa’s Bṛndābana grove, she tells him:

I’m a high-class wife, a big lady. I can’t put up with being accused of stealing flowers. You prattle answers without first seeing or hearing anything. There is no greater nāgar than you. (3)34

Basically, nāgar/nāgarī has become a derogatory term, relating to the upwardly aspirational distortion or misrepresentation of social identity.

This interpretation is further confirmed later, when Kṛṣṇa once again sexually harasses Rādhā, this time claiming she has deliberately enticed him while taking her water from the river (revealing her breast under a slipping garment, flashing her eyes at him, talking coquettishly, etc.). Her response is that he has completely lost his sense of himself:

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