जसोदा हरि पालने झुलावे

A documented song from Shobha (1942), sung by Shobhana Samarth to Pandit Indra's words and Vasant Desai's debut music. Its theme is the Krishna-bhakti cradle image of mother Yashoda rocking the divine child to sleep — a devotional lullaby (lori) whose Vaishnav imagery sets it apart from the film's romantic numbers.

This cradle song lets Vasant Desai, even at his debut, work in the devotional-classical register that would become central to his celebrated later career. The slow tempo, gentle flute and rocking rhythm evoke the bhajan-lullaby tradition; it is among the most stylistically telling of Shobha's six documented songs for what it foreshadows in the composer.