[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) › 1.2.18 # Gita Govinda 1.2.18 Gītagovinda 1.2.18 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.2.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.2.18) śrī-jayadeva-bhaṇitam idam atiśaya-madhu-ripu-nidhuvana-śīlam | sukham utkaṇṭhita-gopa-vadhū-kathitaṃ vitanotu salīlaṃ || > Listen to the unsaid things > Of the song that Radha sings, > For the soul draws near to bliss, > As it comprehendeth this. > I am Jayadev, who write > All this subtle-rich delight > For your teaching. Ponder, then, > What it tells to Gods and men. > Err not, watching Krishna gay, > With those brown girls all at play; > Understand how Radha charms > Her wandering lover to her arms, > Waiting with divinest love > Till his dream ends in the grove. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs - [Previous: 1.2.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.2.17) - [Next: 1.2.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.2.19) - [Up: 1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.2) ## Translations (2) - [The Indian Song of Songs](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-arnold.2.p21) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.2.18) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (4) - [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra.7.8) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit - [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara.7.8.7) — Lakṣmīdhara 1567, Sanskrit - [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka.6.8) — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit - [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (1) - [Kāvyasaṃgraha (Jīvānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.kavyasamgraha-jivananda.91.6-2) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.2.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.2.18) · Pramāṇa