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# Gita Govinda 1.2.5

Gītagovinda 1.2.5

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.2.5)

vipula-pulaka-bhuja-pallava-valayita-ballava-yuvati-sahasram |  
kara-caraṇorasi maṇi-gaṇa-bhūṣaṇa-kiraṇa-vibhinna-tamisram ||

> Half hopeless, thinking of myself forsaken,  
> And thee, dear Loiterer, in the wood o'ertaken  
> With passion for those bold and wanton ones,  
> Who knit thine arms as poison-plants gripe trees  
> With twining cords--their flowers the braveries  
> That flash in the green gloom, sparkling stars and stones.  
> — 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.p6) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.2.5) — English, machine translation

## Commentaries (4)

- [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna.6.4) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit
- [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra.5.4) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara.6.8.3) — Lakṣmīdhara 1567, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka.5.4) — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [Kāvyasaṃgraha (Jīvānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.kavyasamgraha-jivananda.90.5) — Sanskrit

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