[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) › 1.1.40 # Gita Govinda 1.1.40 Gītagovinda 1.1.40 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.1.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.40) pīna-payodhara-bhāra-bhareṇa hariṃ parirabhya sarāgam | gopa-vadhūr anugāyati kācid udañcita-pañcama-rāgam || > One, with star-blossomed champâk wreathed, wooes him to rest his head > On the dark pillow of her breast so tenderly outspread; > And o'er his brow with, roses blown she fans a fragrance rare, > That falls on the enchanted sense like rain in thirsty air, > While the company of damsels wave many an odorous spray, > And Krishna, laughing, toying, sighs the soft Spring away. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs - [Previous: 1.1.39.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.39.p1) - [Next: 1.1.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.41) - [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.p16) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.1.40) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (4) - [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna.5.2) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit - [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra.4.2) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit - [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka.4.2) — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit - [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara) — Lakṣmīdhara, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (1) - [Kāvyasaṃgraha (Jīvānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.kavyasamgraha-jivananda.89.3) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.40) · Pramāṇa