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# Gita Govinda 1.11.23

Gītagovinda 1.11.23

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.11.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.11.23)

sā sa-sādhvasa-sānandaṃ govinde lola-locanā |  
siñjānā mañju-mañjīraṃ praviveśa niveśanam ||

> Then she, no more delaying, entered straight;  
> Her step a little faltered, but her face  
> Shone with unutterable quick love; and--while,  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

> The music of her bangles passed the porch--  
> Shame, which had lingered in her downcast eyes,  
> Departed shamed ... and like the mighty deep,  
> Which sees the moon and rises, all his life  
> Uprose to drink her beams.  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

### [1.11.23.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.11.23.p1)

NOTE: {praviveśābhiveśanam iti haridāsasya pāṭhaḥ.}

> Then she, no more delaying, entered straight;  
> Her step a little faltered, but her face  
> Shone with unutterable quick love; and--while,  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

> The music of her bangles passed the porch--  
> Shame, which had lingered in her downcast eyes,  
> Departed shamed ... and like the mighty deep,  
> Which sees the moon and rises, all his life  
> Uprose to drink her beams.  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

### [1.11.23.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.11.23.p2)

|| prabandhaḥ 22 ||

> Then she, no more delaying, entered straight;  
> Her step a little faltered, but her face  
> Shone with unutterable quick love; and--while,  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

> The music of her bangles passed the porch--  
> Shame, which had lingered in her downcast eyes,  
> Departed shamed ... and like the mighty deep,  
> Which sees the moon and rises, all his life  
> Uprose to drink her beams.  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

### [1.11.23.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.11.23.p3)

varāḍi-rāga-yati-tālābhyāṃ gīyate |

> Then she, no more delaying, entered straight;  
> Her step a little faltered, but her face  
> Shone with unutterable quick love; and--while,  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

> The music of her bangles passed the porch--  
> Shame, which had lingered in her downcast eyes,  
> Departed shamed ... and like the mighty deep,  
> Which sees the moon and rises, all his life  
> Uprose to drink her beams.  
> — 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.p21) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.11.23) — English, machine translation

## Commentaries (4)

- [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra.33.1) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara.22.8.9) — Lakṣmīdhara 1567, Sanskrit
- [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka) — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit

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