Gita Govinda (Gītagovinda)
गीतगोविन्द
The Song of the Cowherd
Jayadeva
Jayadeva's lyrical poem in 12 sargas on the love, separation and reunion of Kṛṣṇa and Rādhā, combining ślokas with 24 sung aṣṭapadīs; central to later Kṛṣṇa devotion and temple performance.
- Language
- Sanskrit
- Date
- 1170–1210 CE
- Author
- Jayadeva
- Place
- Vaṅga (Bengal)
- Extent
- 675 passages, 7,977 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- gretil · Based on the Kavyamala ed. (Calcutta 1878), checked against several other editions (cf. NOTE below) · Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.…; gretil · Based on the edition by Barbara Stoler-Miller (New York 1977), with occasional amendments · Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.…; sanskritdocuments · sanskritdocuments.org e-text (ITRANS) · sanskritdocuments.org terms: prepared by volunteers for personal study and research; not to be copied or…
Contents
- 1 Gītagovinda — 13 parts
- 2 Gītagovinda — 12 parts
Commentaries (77)
- Rasikapriyā — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit
- Commentary of Mīrābāī — Mīrābāī, Hindi, not yet digitised
- Commentary of Kumbha — Kumbha, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Gītagovindaprathamāṣṭapadīvivṛti — Viṭṭhalanātha, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Śrutirañjanī — Lakṣmīdhara, Sanskrit
- Commentary of Kamalākara — Kamalākarabhaṭṭa, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Bhāvavibhāvinī — Udayana, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Bhāvavibhāvinī — Udayanācārya, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Commentary of Mānāṅka — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit
- Gītagovindaprabodha — Rāmākānta, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Gītagovindaṭīkā — Kṛṣṇadatta Maithila, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Gītagovindaṭīkā — Varadarāja, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Gītagovindaṭīkā — Caitanyadāsa, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Gītagovindaṭīkā — Pītāmbara Śarman, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Gītagovindaṭīkā — Bhāvācārya, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Gītagovindaṭīkā — Rāmadatta, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Gītagovindaṭīkā — Lakṣmaṇasūri, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Gītagovindaṭīkā — Vanamālin Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Gītagovindaṭīkā — Śālinātha, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Gītagovindaṭīkā — Śrīharṣa, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Gitagovindaṭīkā — Tirumala Ācārya, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Gītagovindaṭīkā — Cidānanda Bhikshu, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Gītagovindaṭīkā — Dhṛtikara, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Gītagovindaṭīkā — Bhagavaddāsa, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Gītagovindaṭīkā — Lakshmaṇa, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Gītagovindaṭīkā — Vanamālin, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Gītagovindaṭīkā — Cidānanda Bhikṣu, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Gītagovindaṭīkā — Nārāyaṇadāsa, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Gītagovindaṭīkā — Kumārakhān, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Gītagovindaṭīkā — Śrīkānta Miśra, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Gītagovindatilakottama — Hṛdayābharaṇa, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Padadyotanikā — Nārāyaṇa, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Rasakadambakallolinī — Bhagvaddāsa, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Sāhityaratnākara Gītagovindaṭīkā — Śeṣaratnākara, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Sāhityaratnamālā — Śeṣa Kamalākara, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Sāradīpikā — Jagaddhara, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Śaśilekhā — Kṛṣṇa Datta, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Vacanamālikā — Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Vyākhyāna of Paṇḍitācārya — Paṇḍitācārya, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Rasakandalī — Nārāyaṇa (Mahiṣamaṅgalam), Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Sārāvalī — Śukladhvaja, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Rasakandalī — Nārāyaṇa Vyāsa, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Artharatnāvalī — Gopāla Ācārya, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Abhinayaṭīkā — Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Anūpodaya — Anūpasiṃha, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Anūpodaya — Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Bhāvabodhinī — Mahārāja Viradasiṃhajī, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Bhāvārthacandrikā — Śrīkaṇṭha, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Commentary of Mallinātha Bhaṭṭa — Mallinātha Sūri, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Commentary of Śrīdhara — Śrīdhara, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Dīpikā of Jayasimha — Jayasiṃha, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Mādhurī — Rāmatāraṇa, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Padabhāvārthacandrikā — Miśra Śrīkānta, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Padābhinayamañjarī — Vāsudeva Vācasundara, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Padadyotinī — Nārāyaṇa, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Pītamuṇḍiyā — Sanskrit
- Rasamañjarī — Śālinātha, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Rasamañjarī — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- Rasataraṅgiṇī — Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Sandarbhadīpikā — Dhṛtidāsa, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Sandehabhedikā — Pītāmbara Śarman, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Saṅgrahadīpikā — Svaprakāśayati, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Saṅgrahadīpikā — Svayamprakāśa Yati, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Sarvaṇa — Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Sarvāṅgasundarī — Nārāyaṇadāsa Kavirāja, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Śṛṅgārakāśikā — Aprameya, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Śrutirañjinī — Viśveśvara, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Śrutirañjinī — Lakṣmaṇasūri, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Subodhā — Bharatasena, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Subodhinī (Caitanyadāsa) — Caitanyadāsa, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Vāṇībhūṣaṇa — Ananta Ratha, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Vivaraṇa of Rūpadeva — Rūpadeva, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Vivaraṇa of Rūpadeva Kavi — Rūpadevakavi, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Vivṛti of Vallabha — Vallabha, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Vivṛti of Vallabhatanuja — Vallabhatanuja, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Vyākhyāsaṅgraha — Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Tilakottama — Sakhīhṛdayābharaṇa, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
Translations (5)
- Gítagóvinda, or the Songs of Jayadéva — English, not yet digitised
- The Indian Song of Songs — English
- Love Song of the Dark Lord: Jayadeva's Gītagovinda — English, not yet digitised
- Gita·govínda: Love Songs of Radha and Krishna (Clay Sanskrit Library) — English, not yet digitised
- English (machine translation) — English
Translates
Versions and retellings
See also: more in Musical poems after the Gītagovinda
- Sangitaraghunandana (Saṅgītaraghunandana) — Sanskrit; partly digitised
- Krishnalilatarangini (Narayanatirtha) (Kṛṣṇalīlātaraṅgiṇī (Nārāyaṇatīrtha)) — Sanskrit; 1700 CE; partly digitised
- Krishnagiti (Kṛṣṇagīti) — Sanskrit; 1655 CE; partly digitised
- Abhinavagitagovinda (Abhinavagītagovinda) — Sanskrit; 1470–1497 CE; partly digitised
- Ramagita (Rāmagīta) — Sanskrit; 1669–1744 CE; partly digitised
- Shivalilamritamahakavya (Śivalīlāmṛtamahākāvya) — Sanskrit; 1700 CE; partly digitised
Discussed in 53 studies in Pramāṇa (listed on the page).