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# Gita Govinda 1.2.17

Gītagovinda 1.2.17

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.2.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.2.17)

rati-sukha-samaya-rasālasayā dara-mukulita-nayana-sarojam |  
niḥsaha-nipatita-tanu-latayā madhusūdanam udita-manojam ||

> While gained for ever, I shall dare to grow  
> Life to life with him, in the realms divine;  
> And--Love's large cup at happy overflow,  
> Yet ever to be filled--his eyes and mine  
> Will meet in that glad look, when Time's great gate  
> Closes and shuts out Fate.  
> — 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.2.p20) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.2.17) — English, machine translation

## Commentaries (4)

- [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna.8.7) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit
- [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra.7.7) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara.7.8.6) — Lakṣmīdhara 1567, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka.6.7) — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (2)

- [Kāvyasaṃgraha (Jīvānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.kavyasamgraha-jivananda.91.8) — Sanskrit
- [Padāvalī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.maithili.vidyapati.padavali-vidyapati.2.p10) — Vidyāpati, Sanskrit

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