[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 # Gita Govinda 1.3 Gītagovinda 1.3 - **Language:** Sanskrit ## Contents - [1.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3.2) — 2 parts - [1.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3.3) — 1 part - [1.3.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3.16) — 2 parts ### [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 || > Placing in his heart Rādhā, who was the bond of the chain of his worldly longing, / even the enemy of Kaṃsa abandoned the beauties of Vraja. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 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 ### [1.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3.2) itas tatas tām anusṛtya rādhikām anaṅga-bāṇa-vraṇa-khinna-mānasaḥ | kṛtānutāpaḥ sa kalinda-nandinī-taṭānta-kuñje viṣasāda mādhavaḥ || > Following after that Rādhikā here and there, his mind afflicted by the wounds of the Bodiless One's arrows, / full of repentance, Mādhava sat despondent in a bower on the bank of the daughter of Kalinda. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 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 ### [1.3.2.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3.2.p1) || prabandhaḥ 7 || > || Song 7 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > (What follows is to the Music GURJJARÎ and to the Mode YATI) > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs > 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 ### [1.3.2.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3.2.p2) gurjarī-rāga-yati-tālābhyāṃ gīyate | > Sung in the rāga Gurjarī and the tāla Yati. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 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 ### [1.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3.3) mām iyaṃ calitā vilokya vṛtaṃ vadhū-nicayena | sāparādhatayā mayāpi na vāritā'tibhayena || > “Seeing me surrounded by a throng of young women, she departed; / and being in the wrong, I too did not restrain her out of great fear. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > Radha, Enchantress! Radha, queen of all! > Gone--lost, because she found me sinning here; > And I so stricken with my foolish fall, > I could not stay her out of shame and fear; > She will not hear; > In her disdain and grief vainly I call. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.3.3.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3.3.p1) hari hari hatādaratayā gatā sā kupiteva ||dhruva-padam || > Hari, Hari! Because my regard was ruined, she went away as if enraged! // Refrain > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [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 || > What will she do? What will she say after long separation? / What use is wealth to me, what use are people, what use is my life, what use is my home? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 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 ### [1.3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3.5) cintayāmi tad-ānanaṃ kuṭila-bhru kopa-bhareṇa | śona-padmam ivopari-bhramatākulaṃ bhramareṇa || > I imagine her face with knitted brows from the weight of anger, / like a red lotus agitated by a bee hovering above it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > Sadly I know the truth. Ah! even now > Remembering that one look beside the river, > Softer the vexed eyes seem, and the proud brow > Than lotus-leaves when the bees make them quiver. > My love for ever! > Too late is Krishna wise--too far art thou! > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3.6) tām ahaṃ hṛdi saṅgatām aniśaṃ bhṛśaṃ ramayāmi | kiṃ vane'nusarāmi tām iha kiṃ vṛthā vilapāmi || > I constantly and deeply take delight in her who has entered my heart; / why do I follow her into the forest, why do I lament here in vain? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > Yet all day long in my deep heart I woo thee, > And all night long with thee my dreams are sweet; > Why, then, so vainly must my steps pursue thee? > Why can I never reach thee, to entreat, > Low at thy feet, > Dear vanished Splendour! till my tears subdue thee? > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3.7) tanvi khinnam asūyayā hṛdayaṃ tavākalayāmi | tan na vedmi kuto gatāsi na tena te'nunayāmi || > O slender woman, I know your heart is pained with resentment; / yet I do not know where you have gone, and so I cannot conciliate you. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > Surpassing One! I knew thou didst not brook > Half-hearted worship, and a love that wavers; > Haho! there is the wisdom I mistook, > Therefore I seek with desperate endeavours; > That fault dissevers > Me from my heaven, astray--condemned--forsook! > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3.8) dṛśyase purato gatāgatam eva me vidadhāsi | kiṃ pureva sasambhramaṃ parirambhaṇaṃ na dadāsi || > You appear before me, coming and going before my eyes; / why do you not give me a passionate embrace as before? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > And yet I seem to feel, to know, thee near me; > Thy steps make music, measured music, near: > Radha! my Radha! will not sorrow clear me? > Shine once! speak one word pitiful and dear! > Wilt thou not hear? > Canst thou--because I did forget--forsake me? > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.3.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3.9) kṣamyatām aparaṃ kadāpi tavedṛśaṃ na karomi | dehi sundari darśanaṃ mama manmathena dunomi || > Forgive me! I will never again do such a thing to you; / show yourself, O beautiful one, for I am tormented by Manmatha.” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > Forgive! the sin is sinned, is past, is over; > No thought I think shall do thee wrong again; > Turn thy dark eyes again upon thy lover > Bright Spirit! or I perish of this pain. > Loving again! > In dread of doom to love, but not recover. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.3.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3.10) varṇitaṃ jayadevakena harer idaṃ praṇatena | NOTE: {pravaṇena} kindubilva-samudra-sambhava-rohiṇī-ramaṇena || > This was composed about Hari by humble Jayadeva, / the moon born from the ocean of Kindubilva. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > So did Krishna sing and sigh > By the river-bank; and I, > Jayadev of Kinduvilva, > Resting--as the moon of silver > Sits upon the solemn ocean-- > On full faith, in deep devotion; > Tell it that ye may perceive > How the heart must fret and grieve; > How the soul doth tire of earth, > When the love from Heav'n hath birth. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.3.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3.11) hṛdi bisa-latā-hāro nāyaṃ bhujaṅgama-nāyakaḥ kuvalaya-dala-śreṇī kaṇṭhe na sā garala-dyutiḥ | malayaja-rajo nedaṃ bhasma priyā-rahite mayi prahara na hara-bhrāntyā'naṅga krudhā kim u dhāvasi || > “This garland of lotus-fibers on my heart is not the king of serpents; the row of blue lotus petals on my neck is not the luster of poison; / this sandal-powder is not ash: why do you rush in wrath, O Bodiless One, to strike at me bereft of my beloved, mistaking me for Hara? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > For (sang he on) I am no foe of thine, > There is no black snake, Kama! in my hair; > Blue lotus-bloom, and not the poisoned brine, > Shadows my neck; what stains my bosom bare, > Thou God unfair! > Is sandal-dust, not ashes; nought of mine. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.3.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3.12) pāṇau mā kuru cūta-sāyakam amuṃ mā cāpam āropaya kṛīḍā-nirjita-viśva mūrcchita-janāghātena kiṃ pauruṣam | tasyā eva mṛgī-dṛśo manasija preṇkhat-katākṣāśuga-śreṇī-jarjaritaṃ manāg api mano nādyāpi sandhukṣate || > Do not put that mango arrow in your hand! Do not string your bow! What manly prowess is there in striking one who has fainted, O you who have conquered the universe in play? / O mind-born one, shattered by the streaming arrows of flickering sidelong glances from that deer-eyed maiden herself, my mind does not revive even a little even today. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > Makes me like Shiva that thou, Lord of Love! > Shouldst strain thy string at me and fit thy dart; > This world is thine--let be one breast thereof > Which bleeds already, wounded to the heart > With lasting smart, > Shot from those brows that did my sin reprove. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.3.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3.13) bhrū-pallavaṃ dhanur apāṅga-taraṇgitāni bāṇā guṇaḥ śravaṇa-pālir iti smareṇa | tasyām anaṅga-jaya-jaṅgama-devatāyām astrāṇi nirjita-jaganti kim arpitāni || > Did Smara bestow his world-conquering weapons on her, the walking deity of victory for the Bodiless One— / the sprout-like eyebrow as bow, the wavering sidelong glances as arrows, and the line of the ear as bowstring? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > Thou gavest her those black brows for a bow > Arched like thine own, whose pointed arrows seem > Her glances, and the underlids that go-- > So firm and fine--its string? Ah, fleeting gleam! > Beautiful dream! > Small need of Kama's help hast thou, I trow, > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.3.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3.14) bhrū-cāpe nihitaḥ kaṭākṣa-viśikho nirmātu marma-vyathāṃ śyāmātmā kuṭilaḥ karotu kabarī-bhāro'pi mārodyamam | mohaṃ tāvad ayaṃ ca tanvi tanutāṃ bimba-dharo rāgavān sad-vṛttaḥ stana-maṇḍalas tava kathaṃ prāṇair mama krīḍati || > Let the sidelong arrow set on the bow of your brow cause agony to my vitals; let your mass of dark, curly hair make an assault of love; / let this red bimba lip spread bewilderment, O slender one! But why do your well-rounded breasts play with my life? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > To smite me to the soul with love;--but set > Those arrows to their silken cord! enchain > My thoughts in that loose hair! let thy lips, wet > With dew of heaven as bimba-buds with rain, > Bloom precious pain > Of longing in my heart; and, keener yet, > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.3.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3.15) tāni sparśa-sukhāni te ca taralāḥ snigdhā dṛśor vibhramās tad-vaktrāmbuja-saurabhaṃ sa ca sudhā-syandi girāṃ vakrimā | sa bimbādhara-mādhurīti viṣayāsaṅge'pi cen mānasaṃ tasyāṃ lagna-samādhi hanta viraha-vyādhiḥ kathaṃ vardhate || > Those pleasures of touch, those unsteady, tender coquetries of her eyes, the fragrance of her lotus face, and that nectar-distilling curvature of her words, / and that sweetness of her bimba lip—alas! when my mind is in deep meditation fixed on her alone even in the midst of sensual objects, how does this disease of separation still grow? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > The heaving of thy lovely, angry bosom, > Pant to my spirit things unseen, unsaid; > But if thy touch, thy tones, if the dark blossom > Of thy dear face, thy jasmine-odours shed > From feet to head, > If these be all with me, canst thou be far--be fled? > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.3.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3.16) tiryak-kaṇṭha-vilola-mauli-taralottaṃsasya vamśoccarad-gīti-sthāna-kṛtāvadhāna-lalanā-lakṣair na saṃlakṣitāḥ | NOTE: {dīpti iti ni-pāṭhāntaraḥ.} saṃmugdhe madhusūdanasya madhure rādhā-mukhendau sudhā-sāre kandalitāś ciraṃ dadatu vaḥ kṣemaṃ kaṭākṣormayaḥ || > May the waves of sidelong glances of Madhusūdana—unnoticed by hundreds of thousands of women attentive to the pitch of the song rising from his flute, / his crest-ornament tremulous on his head tilted with crooked neck, sprouting long on the enchanting, sweet, nectar-filled moon-face of Rādhā—grant you welfare! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > So sang he, and I pray that whoso hears > The music of his burning hopes and fears, > That whoso sees this vision by the River > Of Krishna, Hari, (can we name him ever?) > And marks his ear-ring rubies swinging slow, > As he sits still, unheedful, bending low > To play this tune upon his lute, while all > Listen to catch the sadness musical; > And Krishna wotteth nought, but, with set face > Turned full toward Radha's, sings on in that place; > May all such souls--prays Jayadev--be wise > To lean the wisdom which hereunder lies. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.3.16.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3.16.p1) iti śrī-gīta-govinda-mahā-kāvye mugdha-madhusūdano nāma tṛtīyaḥ sargaḥ ||3|| > Thus ends the third sarga, entitled “Enamored Madhusūdana,” in the great poem Gītagovinda. ||3 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > (Here ends that Sarga of the Gîta Govinda entitled MUGDHAMADHUSUDANO.) > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.3.16.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3.16.p3) caturthaḥ sargaḥ snigdha-madhusūdanaḥ > Fourth Sarga > Affectionate Madhusūdana > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > SARGA THE FOURTH. > — 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.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) - [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna.9.1) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit - [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 ## Linked texts (5) - [Kāvyasaṃgraha (Jīvānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.kavyasamgraha-jivananda.92.1) — Sanskrit - [Subhāṣitaratnabhāṇḍāgāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.subhasitaratnabhandagara.6.14.137) — Kāśīnātha Pāṇḍuraṅga Paraba 1886, Sanskrit - [Padāvalī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.maithili.vidyapati.padavali-vidyapati.3.p1) — Vidyāpati, Sanskrit - [Śārṅgadharapaddhati](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.kosa.sarngadharapaddhati.128.16) — Śārṅgadhara, Sanskrit - [Subhāṣitaratnākara (Kṛṣṇanātha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.daksina.subhasitaratnakara-krsna.87.25) — Kṛṣṇanātha, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.3) · Pramāṇa