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# Gita Govinda 1.2.21

Gītagovinda 1.2.21

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.2.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.2.21)

sakūta-smitam ākulākula-galad-dhammillam ullāsita-bhrū-vallīkam alīka-darśita-bhujā-mūlārdha-hasta-stanam |  
gopīnāṃ nibhṛtaṃ nirīkṣya gamitākāṅkṣaś ciraṃ cintayann antar mugdha-manoharaṃ haratu vaḥ kleśaṃ navaḥ keśavaḥ ||

> Having secretly observed the gopīs with meaningful smiles, their braid-knots utterly loose and falling, their eyebrow-creepers raised, and their armpits and half their breasts deceitfully exposed with hands; and having his desire awakened, long meditating within on what is enchantingly lovely: may the youthful Keśava remove your distress!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> (Here ends that Sarga of the Gîta Govinda entitled KLESHAKESHAVO.)  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

### [1.2.21.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.2.21.p1)

iti śrī-gīta-govinda-mahā-kāvye akleśa-keśavo nāma  
dvitīyaḥ sargaḥ  
||2||

> Thus ends the second canto, entitled “Unvexed Keśava,” in the great poem Gītagovinda.  
> || 2  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.21.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.2.21.p2)

(3)  
tṛtīyaḥ sargaḥ  
mugdha-madhusūdanaḥ

> (3)  
> Third Canto  
> Enamored Madhusūdana  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> SARGA THE THIRD.  
> — 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.2.p27) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.2.21) — English, machine translation

## Commentaries (4)

- [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna.8.12) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit
- [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra.7.12) — Śaṅkara, 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)

- [Kāvyasaṃgraha (Jīvānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.kavyasamgraha-jivananda.91.12) — Sanskrit
- [Padāvalī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.maithili.vidyapati.padavali-vidyapati.2.p11) — Vidyāpati, Sanskrit

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