[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Epic, Poetry, Drama & Narrative](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit) › [Poetry (mahākāvya, lyric, messenger poems, stotra, Prakrit kāvya)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya) › [Shorter narrative and descriptive poems](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda) › [Musical poems after the Gītagovinda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya) › [Gita Govinda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2) › 1.1.31 # Gita Govinda 1.1.31 Gītagovinda 1.1.31 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.1.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.31) madana-mahīpati-kanaka-daṇḍa-ruci-keśara-kusuma-vikāśe | milita-śili-mukha-pāṭala-paṭala-kṛta-smara-tūṇa-vilāse || > Where the breaking forth of blossom on the yellow Keshra-sprays > Dazzles like Kama's sceptre, whom all the world obeys; > And Pâtal-buds fill drowsy bees from pink delicious bowls, > As Kama's nectared goblet steeps in languor human souls; > There he dances with the dancers, and of Radha thinketh none, > All in the warm new Spring-tide, when none will live alone. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs - [Previous: 1.1.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.30) - [Next: 1.1.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.32) - [Up: 1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1) ## Translations (2) - [The Indian Song of Songs](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-arnold.1.p6) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.1.31) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (4) - [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna.4.4) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit - [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra.3.4) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit - [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara.4.8.4) — Lakṣmīdhara 1567, Sanskrit - [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka.3.4) — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (2) - [Kāvyasaṃgraha (Jīvānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.kavyasamgraha-jivananda.88.5) — Sanskrit - [Padāvalī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.maithili.vidyapati.padavali-vidyapati.1.p1332) — Vidyāpati, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.31) · Pramāṇa