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# Gita Govinda 1.5.16

Gītagovinda 1.5.16

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.5.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.5.16)

vikirati muhuḥ śvāsān āśāḥ puro muhur īkṣate praviśati muhuḥ kuñjaṃ gūñjan muhur bahu tāmyati |  
racayati muhuḥ śayyāṃ paryākulaṃ muhur īkṣate madana-kadana-klāntaḥ kānte priyas tava vartate ||

> Lady, most sweet!  
> For thy coming feet  
> He listens in the wood, with love sore-tried;  
> Faintly sighing,  
> Like one a-dying,  
> He sends his thoughts afoot to meet his bride.  
> — 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.5.p20) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.5.16) — English, machine translation

## Commentaries (4)

- [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara.12.8.9) — Lakṣmīdhara 1567, Sanskrit
- [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka) — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit
- [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (3)

- [Subhāṣitaratnabhāṇḍāgāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.subhasitaratnabhandagara.6.25.3) — Kāśīnātha Pāṇḍuraṅga Paraba 1886, Sanskrit
- [Śārṅgadharapaddhati](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.kosa.sarngadharapaddhati.130.2) — Śārṅgadhara, Sanskrit
- [Padāvalī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.maithili.vidyapati.padavali-vidyapati.3.p13) — Vidyāpati, Sanskrit

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