Madhurāṣṭakam
मधुराष्टकम्
Eight verses in which everything of Kṛṣṇa is sweet: his lips, his walk, his flute, the dust of his feet, the river, the cows.
Why this one
Śṛṅgāra is longing. This hymn does not take what it longs for. It looks, and finds every part of the beloved sweet, and its refrain gathers it all: madhurādhipater akhilaṃ madhuram, everything of the lord of sweetness is sweet.
It is ascribed to Vallabhācārya. The Sanskrit is as Arjun gave it, checked against sanskritdocuments.org (in verse 7 Arjun's text reads sṛṣṭaṃ, where that one reads śiṣṭaṃ). The sense given here is ours.
वाचिक: Said out loud, a line to a breath. The syllables light as you say them. उपांशु: The lips move and nobody across the room hears it. The text stays on the screen and stops moving. मानस: Nothing said, nothing shown. The breath and the place. अन्तर्यात्रा: The first third aloud, the second whispered, the last in the mind. Over a stotra this long the voice goes inward by itself; this simply agrees with it.
How to say it
The traditional three, and the order is a withdrawal inwards rather than a ladder. Nothing is locked.
You can stop anywhere. The page remembers the verse you reached, on this device only, and offers it when you come back.
The whole text
अधरं मधुरं वदनं मधुरं नयनं मधुरं हसितं मधुरम् ।
हृदयं मधुरं गमनं मधुरं मधुराधिपतेरखिलं मधुरम् ॥
वचनं मधुरं चरितं मधुरं वसनं मधुरं वलितं मधुरम् ।
चलितं मधुरं भ्रमितं मधुरं मधुराधिपतेरखिलं मधुरम् ॥
वेणुर्मधुरो रेणुर्मधुरः पाणिर्मधुरः पादौ मधुरौ ।
नृत्यं मधुरं सख्यं मधुरं मधुराधिपतेरखिलं मधुरम् ॥
गीतं मधुरं पीतं मधुरं भुक्तं मधुरं सुप्तं मधुरम् ।
रूपं मधुरं तिलकं मधुरं मधुराधिपतेरखिलं मधुरम् ॥
करणं मधुरं तरणं मधुरं हरणं मधुरं रमणं मधुरम् ।
वमितं मधुरं शमितं मधुरं मधुराधिपतेरखिलं मधुरम् ॥
गुञ्जा मधुरा माला मधुरा यमुना मधुरा वीची मधुरा ।
सलिलं मधुरं कमलं मधुरं मधुराधिपतेरखिलं मधुरम् ॥
गोपी मधुरा लीला मधुरा युक्तं मधुरं मुक्तं मधुरम् ।
दृष्टं मधुरं सृष्टं मधुरं मधुराधिपतेरखिलं मधुरम् ॥
गोपा मधुरा गावो मधुरा यष्टिर्मधुरा सृष्टिर्मधुरा ।
दलितं मधुरं फलितं मधुरं मधुराधिपतेरखिलं मधुरम् ॥
The Sanskrit is older than any copyright and is set down as it is chanted, checked verse by verse against the count this stotra is known by. Everything said about it here was written for this page.