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# Gita Govinda 1.1.41

Gītagovinda 1.1.41

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.1.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.41)

kāpi vilāsa-vilola-vilocana-khelana-janita-manojam |  
dhyāyati mugdha-vadhūr adhikaṃ madhusūdana-vadana-sarojam ||

> Another, gazing in his face, sits wistfully apart,  
> Searching it with those looks of love that leap from heart to heart;  
> Her eyes--afire with shy desire, veiled by their lashes black--  
> Speak so that Krishna cannot choose but send the message back,  
> In the company of damsels whose bright eyes in a ring  
> Shine round him with soft meanings in the merry light of Spring.  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

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## Translations (2)

- [The Indian Song of Songs](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-arnold.1.p17) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.1.41) — English, machine translation

## Commentaries (4)

- [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna.5.3) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit
- [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra.4.3) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka.4.3) — 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.89.4) — Sanskrit

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