[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Epic, Poetry, Drama & Narrative](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit) › [Poetry (mahākāvya, lyric, messenger poems, stotra, Prakrit kāvya)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya) › [Shorter narrative and descriptive poems](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda) › [Musical poems after the Gītagovinda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya) › [Gita Govinda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2) › 1.6.3 # Gita Govinda 1.6.3 Gītagovinda 1.6.3 - **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 - [Previous: 1.6.2.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.6.2.p1) - [Next: 1.6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.6.4) - [Up: 1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.6) ## 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 (4) - [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara.13.8.2) — Lakṣmīdhara 1567, 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) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit - [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (1) - [Kāvyasaṃgraha (Jīvānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.kavyasamgraha-jivananda.95.3) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.6.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.6.3) · Pramāṇa