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# Gita Govinda 1.5.20

Gītagovinda 1.5.20

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.5.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.5.20)

rādhā-mugdha-mukhāravinda-madhupas trailokya-mauli-sthalī nepathyocita-nīla-ratnam avanī-bhārāvatārāntakaḥ |  
svacchandaṃ vraja-sundarī-jana-manas-toṣa-pradoṣodayaḥ kaṃsa-dhvaṃsana-dhūma-ketur avatu tvāṃ devakī-nandanaḥ ||

> Come! and come thou, Lord of all,  
> Unto whom the Three Worlds call;  
> Thou, that didst in angry might,  
> Kansa, like a comet, smite;  
> Thou, that in thy passion tender,  
> As incarnate spell and splendour,  
> Hung on Radha's glorious face--  
> In the garb of Krishna's grace--  
> As above the bloom the bee,  
> When the honeyed revelry  
> Is too subtle-sweet an one  
> Not to hang and dally on;  
> Thou that art the Three Worlds' glory,  
> Of life the light, of every story  
> The meaning and the mark, of love  
> The root and, flower, o' the sky above  
> The blue, of bliss the heart, of those,  
> The lovers, that which did impose  
> The gentle law, that each should be  
> The other's Heav'n and harmony.  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

### [1.5.20.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.5.20.p1)

iti śrī-gīta-govinde'bhisārikā-varṇane sākāṅkṣa-puṇḍarīkākso nāma  
pañcamaḥ sargaḥ  
||5||

> (Here ends that Sarga of the Gîta Govinda entitled SAKANDKSILAPUNDARIKAKSHO.)  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

### [1.5.20.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.5.20.p3)

ṣaṣṭhaḥ sargaḥ  
sotkaṇṭha-vaikuṇṭhaḥ  
NOTE: {dhanya-vaikuṇṭha-kuṅkumaḥ iti kvacit dṛśyate }

> SARGA THE SIXTH.  
> — 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.5.p28) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.5.20) — English, machine translation

## Commentaries (4)

- [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna.15.6) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit
- [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara.12.8.15) — Lakṣmīdhara 1567, 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 (2)

- [Subhāṣitaratnabhāṇḍāgāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.subhasitaratnabhandagara.1.12.172) — Kāśīnātha Pāṇḍuraṅga Paraba 1886, Sanskrit
- [Kāvyasaṃgraha (Jīvānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.kavyasamgraha-jivananda.94.20) — Sanskrit

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