Dear members of the Indology list,

can anybody help me with a translation of the following text? We have an old recording of this song here in the Phonogramm-Archiv of Vienna. It was recorded in 1905 in Varanasi and sung by Madhusūdan Keśava Jośī. On the protocol it is described as "Maratti-Song". But is it Marathi at all?

Best wishes,

Ulla Remmer

avalo kita madhumāsa navaśrī yetamahāśvetāhī

haṃsakanyakā savesakhīccya hāsata bolata kāṃh?īṃ

                        tijalā mainiṇatī sāṃgejā ūnakopudartiva


Mag. Dr. Ulla Remmer
c/o Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Liebiggasse 5
1010 Wien
Austria
ulla.remmer@assoc.oeaw.ac.at