[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) › 1.11.11 # Gita Govinda 1.11.11 Gītagovinda 1.11.11 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.11.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.11.11) akṣṇor nikṣipad añjanaṃ śravaṇayos tāpiñcha-gucchāvalīṃ mūrdhni śyāma-saroja-dāma kucayoḥ kastūrikā-patrakam | dhūrtānām abhisāra-sambhrama-jūṣāṃ viṣvaṅ-nikuñje sakhi dhvāntaṃ nīla-nicola-cāru sudṛśāṃ praty-aṅgam aliṅgati || > Hear'st him not, my Radha? > Lo, night bendeth o'er thee-- > Darker than dark Tamâla-leaves-- > To list thy marriage-song; > Dark as the touchstone that tries gold, > And see now--on before thee-- > Those lines of tender light that creep > The clouded sky along: > O night! that trieth gold of love, > This love is proven perfect! > O lines that streak the touchstone sky, > Plash forth true shining gold! > O rose-leaf feet, go boldly! > O night!--that lovest lovers-- > Thy softest robe of silence > About these bridals fold! > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.11.11.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.11.11.p1) NOTE: {abhisāra-satvara-hṛdāṃ iti haridāsa-saṃskaraṇa-pāthaḥ.} > Hear'st him not, my Radha? > Lo, night bendeth o'er thee-- > Darker than dark Tamâla-leaves-- > To list thy marriage-song; > Dark as the touchstone that tries gold, > And see now--on before thee-- > Those lines of tender light that creep > The clouded sky along: > O night! that trieth gold of love, > This love is proven perfect! > O lines that streak the touchstone sky, > Plash forth true shining gold! > O rose-leaf feet, go boldly! > O night!--that lovest lovers-- > Thy softest robe of silence > About these bridals fold! > — 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.11.p9) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.11.11) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (4) - [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna.32.2) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit - [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra.31.2) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit - [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka.24.3) — 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.100.11) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.11.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.11.11) · Pramāṇa