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Gita Govinda 1.1.37

Gītagovinda 1.1.37

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1.1.37

NOTE: {atra haridāsa-dāsasya prabodhānanda-ṭīkā-saṃvalita-saṃskaraṇe 48-saṅkhyaka-padyaṃ dṛśyate }
unmīlan-madhu-gandha-lubdha-madhupa-vyādhūta-cūtāṅkura-krīḍat-kokila-kākalī-kalakalair udgīrṇa-karṇa-jvaraḥ |
NOTE: {kala-ravair iti ni-pāṭhāntaraḥ.}
nīyante pathikaiḥ kathaṃ katham api dhyānāvadhāna-kṣaṇa prāpta-prāṇa-samāgama-rasollāsair amī vāsarāḥ ||

And all as if--far wandered--
The traveller should hear
The bird of home, the Koil,
With nest-notes rich and clear;
And there should come one moment
A blessed fleeting dream
Of the bees among the mangoes
Beside his native stream;
So flash those sudden yearnings,
That sense of a dearer thing,
The love and lack of Radha
Upon his soul in Spring.

Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

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