[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) › 1.1.35 # Gita Govinda 1.1.35 Gītagovinda 1.1.35 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.1.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.35) śrī-jayadeva-bhaṇitam idam udayati hari-caraṇa-smṛti-sāram | sarasa-vasanta-samaya-vana-varṇanam anugata-madana-vikāram || > Mark this song of Jayadev! > Deep as pearl in ocean-wave > Lurketh in its lines a wonder > Which the wise alone will ponder: > Though it seemeth of the earth. > Heavenly is the music's birth; > Telling darkly of delights > In the wood, of wasted nights, > Of witless days, and fruitless love, > And false pleasures of the grove, > And rash passions of the prime, > And those dances of Spring-time; > Time, which seems so subtle-sweet, > Time, which pipes to dancing-feet, > Ah! so softly--ah! so sweetly-- > That among those wood-maids featly > Krishna cannot choose but dance, > Letting pass life's greater chance. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs - [Previous: 1.1.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.34) - [Next: 1.1.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.36) - [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.p9) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.1.35) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (4) - [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna.4.8) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit - [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra.3.8) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit - [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara.4.8.6) — Lakṣmīdhara 1567, Sanskrit - [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka.3.8) — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (1) - [Kāvyasaṃgraha (Jīvānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.kavyasamgraha-jivananda.88.6-2) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.35) · Pramāṇa