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# Gita Govinda 1.3.4

Gītagovinda 1.3.4

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3.4)

kiṃ kariṣyati kiṃ vadiṣyati sā ciraṃ viraheṇa |  
kiṃ dhanena janena kiṃ mama jīvitena gṛheṇa ||

> And if she heard, what would she do? what say?  
> How could I make it good that I forgot?  
> What profit was it to me, night and day,  
> To live, love, dance, and dream, having her not?  
> Soul without spot!  
> I wronged thy patience, till it sighed away.  
> — 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.3.p4) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.3.4) — English, machine translation

## Commentaries (4)

- [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna.9.3) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit
- [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra.8.3) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara.8.8.3) — Lakṣmīdhara 1567, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka) — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [Kāvyasaṃgraha (Jīvānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.kavyasamgraha-jivananda.92.4) — Sanskrit

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