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# Gita Govinda 1.1.44

Gītagovinda 1.1.44

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.1.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.44)

kara-tala-tāla-tarala-valayāvali-kalita-kalasvana-vaṃśe |  
rāsa-rase saha-nṛtya-parā hariṇā yuvatī praśaśaṃse ||

> Sweetest of all that Temptress who dances for him now  
> With subtle feet which part and meet in the Râs-measure slow,  
> To the chime of silver bangles and the beat of rose-leaf hands,  
> And pipe and lute and cymbal played by the woodland bands;  
> So that wholly passion-laden--eye, ear, sense, soul o'ercome--  
> Krishna is theirs in the forest; his heart forgets its home.  
> — 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.p20) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.1.44) — English, machine translation

## Commentaries (4)

- [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna.5.6) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit
- [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra.4.6) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka.4.6) — 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.89.7) — Sanskrit

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