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# Gita Govinda 1.5.18

Gītagovinda 1.5.18

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.5.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.5.18)

āśleṣād anu cumbanād anu nakho-lekhād anu svāntaja-prodbodhād anu sambhramād anu ratārambhād anu prītayoḥ |  
anyārthaṃ gatayor bhramān militayoḥ sambhāṣaṇair jānator dampatyor iha ko na ko na tamasi vrīḍā-vimiśro rasaḥ ||

> And thine own bliss  
> Delays by this;  
> The utmost of thy heaven comes only so  
> When, with hearts beating  
> And passionate greeting,  
> Parting is over, and the parted grow.  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

> One--one for ever!  
> And the old endeavour  
> To be so blended is assuaged at last;  
> And the glad tears raining  
> Have nought remaining  
> Of doubt or 'plaining; and the dread has passed.  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

> Out of each face,  
> In the close embrace,  
> That by-and-by embracing will be over;  
> The ache that causes  
> Those mournful pauses  
> In bowers of earth between lover and lover:  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

> To be no more felt,  
> To fade, to melt  
> In the strong certainty of joys immortal;  
> In the glad meeting,  
> And quick sweet greeting  
> Of lips that close beyond Time's shadowy portal.  
> — 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.p22) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.5.18) — English, machine translation

## Commentaries (4)

- [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara.12.8.11) — 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)

- [Rasakalpadruma (Jagannātha Miśra)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.rasanirupana-works.rasakalpadruma-jagannathamisra.7.816-2) — Jagannātha Miśra 1600, Sanskrit
- [Kāvyasaṃgraha (Jīvānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.kavyasamgraha-jivananda.94.16-2) — Sanskrit
- [Padāvalī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.maithili.vidyapati.padavali-vidyapati.3.p15) — Vidyāpati, Sanskrit

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