[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) › 1.3.1 # Gita Govinda 1.3.1 Gītagovinda 1.3.1 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3.1) kaṃsārir api saṃsāra-vāsanābaddha-śṛṅkhalām | NOTE: {vāsanābaddha- iti caitanya-caritāmṛtasya pāṭhaḥ.} rādhām ādhāya hṛdaye tatyāja vraja-sundarīḥ || > Thereat,--as one who welcomes to her throne > A new-made Queen, and brings before it bound > Her enemies,--so Krishna in his heart > Throned Radha; and--all treasonous follies chained-- > He played no more with those first play-fellows: > But, searching through the shadows of the grove > For loveliest Radha,--when he found her not, > Faint with the quest, despairing, lonely, lorn, > And pierced with shame for wasted love and days, > He sate by Jumna, where the canes are thick, > And sang to the wood-echoes words like these: > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs - [Previous: 1.2.21.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.2.21.p2) - [Next: 1.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3.2) - [Up: 1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3) ## Translations (2) - [The Indian Song of Songs](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-arnold.3.p1) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.3.1) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (4) - [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra.8.2) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit - [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara.7.8.10) — Lakṣmīdhara 1567, Sanskrit - [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka.7.1) — 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.92.1) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3.1) · Pramāṇa