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Gita Govinda 1.1.4

Gītagovinda 1.1.4

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1.1.4

vacaḥ pallavayaty umāpatidharaḥ sandarbha-śuddhiṃ girāṃ jānītejayadeva eva śaraṇaḥ ślāghyo durūha-druteḥ |
NOTE: {durūhādbhuteḥ iti ni-pāthāntaraḥ | }
śṛṅgārottara-sat-prameya-racanair ācārya-govardhana-spardhī ko'pi na viśrutaḥ srutidharo dhoyī kavi-kṣmāpatiḥ ||

Umāpatidhara makes his speech sprout; Jayadeva alone knows the pure composition of words;
Śaraṇa is praiseworthy for swiftness in difficult passages; none is renowned to rival
Master Govardhana in compositions on true subjects heightened by erotic sentiment;
and the king of poets, Dhoyī, is a living storehouse of what he has heard.

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1.1.4.p1

|| prathama-prabandhaḥ ||

First Lyric Composition

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1.1.4.p2

mālava-gauḍa-rāgeṇa rūpaka-talena giyate | aṣṭāpadī |

Sung in Mālava-Gauḍa melodic mode and Rūpaka rhythmic meter. An eight-stanza song.

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