[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) › 1.1.46 # Gita Govinda 1.1.46 Gītagovinda 1.1.46 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.1.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.46) śrī-jayadeva-bhaṇitam idam adbhuta-keśava-keli-rahasyam | vṛndāvana-vipine lalitaṃ vitanotu śubhāni yaśasyam || > And this shadowed earthly love > In the twilight of the grove, > Dance and song and soft caresses, > Meeting looks and tangled tresses, > Jayadev the same hath writ, > That ye might have gain of it, > Sagely its deep sense conceiving > And its inner light believing; > How that Love--the mighty Master, > Lord of all the stars that cluster > In the sky, swiftest and slowest, > Lord of highest, Lord of lowest-- > Manifests himself to mortals, > Winning them towards the portals > Of his secret House, the gates > Of that bright Paradise which waits > The wise in love. Ah, human creatures! > Even your phantasies are teachers. > Mighty Love makes sweet in seeming > Even Krishna's woodland dreaming; > Mighty Love sways all alike > From self to selflessness. Oh! strike > From your eyes the veil, and see > What Love willeth Him to be > Who in error, but in grace, > Sitteth with that lotus-face, > And those eyes whose rays of heaven > Unto phantom-eyes are given; > Holding feasts of foolish mirth > With these Visions of the earth; > Learning love, and love imparting; > Yet with sense of loss upstarting:-- > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.1.46.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.46.p1) NOTE: {valitam iti ca pāṭhaḥ.} > And this shadowed earthly love > In the twilight of the grove, > Dance and song and soft caresses, > Meeting looks and tangled tresses, > Jayadev the same hath writ, > That ye might have gain of it, > Sagely its deep sense conceiving > And its inner light believing; > How that Love--the mighty Master, > Lord of all the stars that cluster > In the sky, swiftest and slowest, > Lord of highest, Lord of lowest-- > Manifests himself to mortals, > Winning them towards the portals > Of his secret House, the gates > Of that bright Paradise which waits > The wise in love. Ah, human creatures! > Even your phantasies are teachers. > Mighty Love makes sweet in seeming > Even Krishna's woodland dreaming; > Mighty Love sways all alike > From self to selflessness. Oh! strike > From your eyes the veil, and see > What Love willeth Him to be > Who in error, but in grace, > Sitteth with that lotus-face, > And those eyes whose rays of heaven > Unto phantom-eyes are given; > Holding feasts of foolish mirth > With these Visions of the earth; > Learning love, and love imparting; > Yet with sense of loss upstarting:-- > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ## Translations (2) - [The Indian Song of Songs](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-arnold.1.p22) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.1.46) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (4) - [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna.5.8) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit - [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra.4.8) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit - [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka.4.7) — 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.89.6-2) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.46) · Pramāṇa