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# Gita Govinda 1.6.3-4

Gītagovinda 1.6.3-4

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.6.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.6.3)

tvad-abhisaraṇa-rabhasena valantī |  
patati padāni kiyantī calantī ||

> Her steps would fail if she tried to come,  
> Would falter and fail, with yearning weak;  
> At the first of the road they would falter and pause,  
> And the way is strange to seek.  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

### [1.6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.6.4)

vihita-viśada-bisa-kiśalaya-valayā |  
jīvati param iha tava rati-kalayā ||

> Find her where she is sitting, then,  
> With lotus-blossom on ankle and arm  
> Wearing thine emblems, and musing of nought  
> But the meeting to be--glad, warm.  
> — 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.6.p5) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.6.3) — English, machine translation

## Commentaries (5)

- [Śrutirañjinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!srutiranjini.13.8.2) — Lakṣmaṇasūri, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka.14.2) — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit
- [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna.17.2) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit
- [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra.16.2) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Śaśilekhā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!krsnadatta.19.2) — Kṛṣṇa Datta 1700, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [Kāvyasaṃgraha (Jīvānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.kavyasamgraha-jivananda.95.3) — Sanskrit

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