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# Gita Govinda 1.1.28

Gītagovinda 1.1.28

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.1.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.28)

lalita-lavaṅga-latā-pariśīlana-komala-malaya-samīre |  
madhukara-nikara-karambita-kokila-kūjita-kuñja-kuṭīre ||

> When the breeze from the Malaya mountains is soft from caressing tender clove creepers,  
> and bower-cottages resound with cooing cuckoos mingled with swarms of bees,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> I know where Krishna tarries in these early days of Spring,  
> When every wind from warm Malay brings fragrance on its wing;  
> Brings fragrance stolen far away from thickets of the clove,  
> In jungles where the bees hum and the Koil flutes her love;  
> He dances with the dancers of a merry morrice one,  
> All in the budding Spring-time, for 'tis sad to be alone.  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

### [1.1.28.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.28.p1)

viharati harir iha sarasa-vasante  
nṛtyati yuvatī-janena samaṃ sakhi virahi-janasya durante ||dhr||

> Hari sports here in the passionate spring;  
> he dances together with young women, O confidante, in this season hard to bear for those separated from a lover. \[Refrain\]  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (2)

- [The Indian Song of Songs](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-arnold.1.p3) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.1.28) — English, machine translation

## Commentaries (4)

- [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna.4.1) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit
- [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra.3.1) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara.4.8.1) — Lakṣmīdhara 1567, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka.3.1) — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [Kāvyasaṃgraha (Jīvānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.kavyasamgraha-jivananda.88.2) — Sanskrit

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