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 In the ''{{IAST|Haṃsadūta}}'' [[Krishna]] has left [[Vrindavan]] for [[Mathura, Uttar Pradesh|Mathura]], abandoning the many cowherd girls who adore him. Chief among them was [[Radha|Rādhā]], and she is distraught. Her friend Lalitā meets a swan on the banks of the Yamuna and begs him to take a message to [[Krishna]].<br />
 The theme, as of all messenger poems, is viraha, separation in love. Allusions to romance are never far away.<br />
-The journey of the swan in the ''{{IAST|Haṃsadūta}}'' is concluded in 35 of its 142 stanzas, as the distance of swan has to cover is fairly short, from Vrindavan to Mathura. Lalitā’s message takes up over half the poem, and dwells upon the state of the grief-stricken lover, [[Radha|Rādhā]] in this case, while praising her sweetheart&nbsp;– though [[Krishna]] is chided for forsaking the cowherd girls.<br />
+The journey of the swan in the ''{{IAST|Haṃsadūta}}'' is concluded in 35 of its 142 stanzas, as the distance of swan has to cover is fairly short, from Vrindavan to Mathura. Lalitā's message takes up over half the poem, and dwells upon the state of the grief-stricken lover, [[Radha|Rādhā]] in this case, while praising her sweetheart&nbsp;– though [[Krishna]] is chided for forsaking the cowherd girls.<br />
 In the ''{{IAST|Haṃsadūta}}'', [[Rupa Goswami|Rūpa Gosvāmin]] uses a number of puns which are ingeniously employed in order to weave the mythology of [[Krishna]] into the work.