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# Gita Govinda 1.1.39

Gītagovinda 1.1.39

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.1.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.39)

candana-carcita-nīla-kalevara-pīta-vasana-vana-mālī |  
keli-calan-maṇi-kuṇḍala-maṇḍita-gaṇḍa-yuga-smita-śālī ||

> His dark body anointed with sandal, clad in yellow garments, wearing a garland of wild flowers, / smiling, his cheeks adorned with jeweled earrings swaying in play—  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> See, Lady! how thy Krishna passes these idle hours  
> Decked forth in fold of woven gold, and crowned with forest-flowers;  
> And scented with the sandal, and gay with gems of price--  
> Rubies to mate his laughing lips, and diamonds like his, eyes;--  
> In the company of damsels, who dance and sing and play,  
> Lies Krishna, laughing, toying, dreaming his Spring away.  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

### [1.1.39.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.39.p1)

harir iha mugdha-vadhū-nikare vilāsini vilāsati kelī-pare ||dhr||

> Here Hari sports playfully among the throng of infatuated women, intent on erotic play. || 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.p14) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.1.39) — English, machine translation

## Commentaries (4)

- [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara.5.8.1) — Lakṣmīdhara 1567, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka.4.1) — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit
- [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit
- [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (2)

- [Kāvyasaṃgraha (Jīvānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.kavyasamgraha-jivananda.89.2) — Sanskrit
- [Padāvalī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.maithili.vidyapati.padavali-vidyapati.1.p1335) — Vidyāpati, Sanskrit

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