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# Gita Govinda 1.6.1

Gītagovinda 1.6.1

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.6.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.6.1)

atha tāṃ gantum aśaktāṃ ciram anuraktāṃ latā-gṛhe dṛṣṭvā |  
tac-caritaṃ govinde manasija-mande sakhī prāha ||

> Then, seeing her, who had long loved him, unable to go to the bower of vines,  
> the confidante reported her condition to Govinda, who was languid with mind-born love:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> But seeing that, for all her loving will,  
> The flower-soft feet of Radha had not power  
> To leave their place and go, she sped again--  
> That maiden--and to Krishna's eager ears  
> Told how it fared with his sweet mistress there.  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

### [1.6.1.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.6.1.p1)

|| prabandhaḥ 12 ||

> || Lyric Composition 12  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> (What follows is to the Music GONDAKIRÎ and the Mode RUPAKA.)  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

### [1.6.1.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.6.1.p2)

guṇakarī-rāgena rūpaka-tālena gīyate |

> Sung in the melodic mode Guṇakarī and the rhythmic meter Rūpaka.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (2)

- [The Indian Song of Songs](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-arnold.6.p1) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.6.1) — English, machine translation

## Commentaries (4)

- [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara.12.8.16) — 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 (2)

- [Kāvyasaṃgraha (Jīvānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.kavyasamgraha-jivananda.95.1) — Sanskrit
- [Padāvalī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.maithili.vidyapati.padavali-vidyapati.4.p1) — Vidyāpati, Sanskrit

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