[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) › 1.1.48 # Gita Govinda 1.1.48 Gītagovinda 1.1.48 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.1.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.48) nijotsaṅga-vasad-bhujaṅga-kavala-kleśād iveśācalaṃ prāleya-plavanecchayānusarati śrī-khaṇḍa-śailānilaḥ | NOTE: {adryotsaṅgaadyotsaṅga- iti ni-pāṭhāntaraḥ.} kiṃ ca snigdha-rasāla-mauli-mukulāny ālokya harṣodayād unmīlanti kuhūḥ kuhūr iti kalottālāḥ pikānāṃ giraḥ || > For the cloud that veils the fountains > Underneath the Sandal mountains, > How--as if the sunshine drew > All its being to the blue-- > It takes flight, and seeks to rise > High into the purer skies, > High into the snow and frost, > On the shining summits lost! > Ah! and how the Koil's strain > Smites the traveller with pain,-- > When the mango blooms in spring, > And "Koohoo," "Koohoo," they sing-- > Pain of pleasures not yet won, > Pain of journeys not yet done, > Pain of toiling without gaining, > Pain, 'mid gladness, of still paining. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs - [Previous: 1.1.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.47) - [Next: 1.1.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.49) - [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.p23) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.1.48) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (4) - [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra.5.p1) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit - [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit - [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara) — Lakṣmīdhara, Sanskrit - [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka) — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (2) - [Subhāṣitaratnabhāṇḍāgāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.subhasitaratnabhandagara.6.59.30) — Kāśīnātha Pāṇḍuraṅga Paraba 1886, Sanskrit - [Kāvyasaṃgraha (Jīvānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.kavyasamgraha-jivananda.89.11) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.1.48) · Pramāṇa