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# Gita Govinda 1.1.45

Gītagovinda 1.1.45

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.1.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.45)

śliṣyati kām api cumbati kām api kām api ramayati rāmām |  
paśyati sa smita-cāru-tarām aparām anugacchati vāmām ||

> Krishna, made for heavenly things,  
> 'Mid those woodland singers sings;  
> With those dancers dances featly,  
> Gives back soft embraces sweetly;  
> Smiles on that one, toys with this,  
> Glance for glance and kiss for kiss;  
> Meets the merry damsels fairly,  
> Plays the round of folly rarely,  
> Lapped in milk-warm spring-time weather,  
> He and those brown girls together.  
> — 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.p21) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.1.45) — English, machine translation

## Commentaries (4)

- [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna.5.7) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit
- [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra.4.7) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara.5.8.4) — Lakṣmīdhara 1567, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka) — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [Kāvyasaṃgraha (Jīvānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.kavyasamgraha-jivananda.89.8) — Sanskrit

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