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# Gita Govinda 1.6

Gītagovinda 1.6

- **Language:** Sanskrit

## Contents

- [1.6.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.6.1) — 2 parts
- [1.6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.6.2) — 1 part
- [1.6.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.6.12) — 2 parts

### [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)

### [1.6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.6.2)

paśyati diśi diśi rahasi bhavantam |  
tad-adhara-madhura-madhūni pibantam ||

> In secret she sees you in every direction,  
> drinking the sweet nectar of her lips.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> Krishna! 'tis thou must come, (she sang)  
> Ever she waits thee in heavenly bower;  
> The lotus seeks not the wandering bee,  
> The bee must find the flower.  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

> All the wood over her deep eyes roam,  
> Marvelling sore where tarries the bee,  
> Who leaves such lips of nectar unsought  
> As those that blossom for thee.  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

### [1.6.2.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.6.2.p1)

nātha hare sīdati rādhā vāsa-gṛhe || dhru. ||

> O Lord, O Hari, Rādhā pines away in her dwelling of longing. || Refrain  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [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 ||

> Rushing out in her eagerness to go meet you,  
> she takes a few steps and falls down.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> 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 ||

> Wearing bracelets made of white lotus-fibers and tender sprouts,  
> she lives here solely by the art of your amorous pleasure.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> 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

### [1.6.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.6.5)

muhur avalokita-maṇḍana-līlā |  
madhu-ripur aham iti bhāvana-śīlā ||

> Repeatedly inspecting her play of ornaments,  
> she is possessed by the fancy: “I am the foe of Madhu.”  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> 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

### [1.6.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.6.6)

tvaritam upaiti na katham abhisāram |  
harir iti vadati sakhīm anuvāram ||

> “Why does Hari not come swiftly to the amorous rendezvous?”  
> so she repeatedly asks her confidante.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> To be--"but wherefore tarrieth he?"  
> "What can stay or delay him?--go!  
> See if the soul of Krishna comes,"  
> Ten times she sayeth to me so;  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

### [1.6.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.6.7)

śliṣyati cumbati jala-dhara-kalpam |  
harir upagata iti timiram analpam ||

> Thinking Hari has arrived, she embraces and kisses  
> the deep darkness, resembling a raincloud.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> Ten times lost in a languorous swoon,  
> "Now he cometh--he cometh," she cries;  
> And a love-look lightens her eyes in the gloom,  
> And the darkness is sweet with her sighs.  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

### [1.6.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.6.8)

bhavati vilambini vigalita-lajjā |  
vilapati roditi vāsaka-sajjā ||

> When you delay, her modesty falling away,  
> dressed for union, she laments and weeps.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> Till, watching in vain, she glideth again  
> Under the shade of the whispering leaves;  
> With a heart too full of its love at last  
> To heed how her bosom heaves.  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

> Ten times lost in a languorous swoon,  
> "Now he cometh--he cometh," she cries;  
> And a love-look lightens her eyes in the gloom,  
> And the darkness is sweet with her sighs.  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

### [1.6.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.6.9)

śrī-jayadeva-kaver idam uditam |  
rasika-janaṃ tanutām atimuditam ||

> May this utterance of the poet Śrī Jayadeva  
> bring immense joy to discerning lovers.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> Shall not these fair verses swell  
> The number of the wise who dwell  
> In the realm of Kama's bliss?  
> Jayadeva prayeth this,  
> Jayadev, the bard of Love,  
> Servant of the Gods above.  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

### [1.6.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.6.10)

vipula-pulaka-pāliḥ sphīta-sīt-kāram antar-janita-jaḍimam-kāku-vyākulaṃ vyāharantī |  
tava kitava vidhāyāmanda-kandarpa-cintāṃ rasa-jala-nidhi-magnā dhyāna-lagnā mṛgakṣī ||

> Her hair standing intensely on end, her deep hissing sighs uttering words faltering with inner numbness,  
> immersed in an ocean of aesthetic flavor, fixing her meditation on you after intense longing inspired by Kandarpa, O rogue, the doe-eyed woman remains absorbed.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> For all so strong in Heaven itself  
> Is Love, that Radha sits drooping there,  
> Her beautiful bosoms panting with thought,  
> And the braids drawn back from her ear.  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

> And--angel albeit--her rich lips breathe  
> Sighs, if sighs were ever so sweet;  
> And--if spirits can tremble--she trembles now  
> From forehead to jewelled feet.  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

> And her voice of music sinks to a sob,  
> And her eyes, like eyes of a mated roe,  
> Are tender with looks of yielded love,  
> With dreams dreamed long ago;  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

> Long--long ago, but soon to grow truth,  
> To end, and be waking and certain and true;  
> Of which dear surety murmur her lips,  
> As the lips of sleepers do:  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

### [1.6.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.6.11)

aṅgeṣv ābharaṇaṃ karoti bahuśaḥ patre'pi sañcāriṇī prāptaṃ tvāṃ pariśaṅkate vitanute śayyāṃ ciraṃ dhyāyati |  
ity ākalpa-vikalpa-talpa-racanā-saṅkalpa-līlā-śata-vyāsaktāpi vinā tvayā vara-tanur naiṣā niśāṃ neṣyati ||

> She puts ornaments on her limbs again and again; at the stirring of a single leaf she suspects you have arrived;  
> she spreads the couch; she meditates for a long time;  
> thus engrossed in a hundred fancies of dressing, doubting, preparing the bed, and longing, without you this slender-limbed woman cannot survive the night.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> And, dreaming, she loosens her girdle-pearls,  
> And opens her arms to the empty air,  
> Then starts, if a leaf of the champâk falls,  
> Sighing, "O leaf! Is he there?"  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

### [1.6.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.6.12)

kiṃ viśrāmyasi kṛṣṇa-bhogi-bhavane bhāṇḍīra-bhūmī-ruhi bhrātar yāsi na dṛṣṭi-gocaram itaḥ sānanda-nandāspadam |  
rādhāyā vacanaṃ tad adhvaga-mukhān nandāntike gopato govindasya jayanti sāyam atithi-prāśastya-garbhā giraḥ ||

> “Why do you rest, O traveler, in the Bhāṇḍīra tree, an abode of black serpents? Do you not see the joyful home of Nanda from here?”—  
> hearing these words of Rādhā from the mouth of a traveler and concealing them before Nanda,  
> victorious are Govinda’s evening words concealing praise of hospitality to guests.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> Why dost thou linger in this dull spot,  
> Haunted by serpents and evil for thee?  
> Why not hasten to Nanda's House?  
> It is plain, if thine eyes could see.  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

> May these words of high endeavour--  
> Full of grace and gentle favour--  
> Find out those whose hearts can feel  
> What the message did reveal,  
> Words that Radha's messenger  
> Unto Krishna took from her,  
> Slowly guiding him to come  
> Through the forest to his home,  
> Guiding him to find the road  
> Which led--though long--to Love's abode.  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

### [1.6.12.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.6.12.p1)

iti śrī-gīta-govinde'bhisārikā-varṇane dhanya-vaikuṇṭho nāma  
ṣaṣṭhaḥ sargaḥ  
||6||

> Thus ends the sixth sarga, entitled “Blessed Vaikuṇṭha,” in the description of the woman going to meet her lover, in the illustrious Gītagovinda.  
> || 6  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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

### [1.6.12.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.6.12.p3)

saptamaḥ sargaḥ  
nāgara-nārāyaṇaḥ

> Seventh Sarga:  
> Nārāyaṇa the Clever Lover  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> SARGA THE SEVENTH.  
> — 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.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)

- [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra.14.8) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna.17.1) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit
- [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara.12.8.16) — Lakṣmīdhara 1567, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka.14.1) — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (5)

- [Mahāsubhāṣitasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.mahasubhasitasangraha.337) — Sanskrit
- [Kāvyasaṃgraha (Jīvānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.kavyasamgraha-jivananda.95.1) — Sanskrit
- [Subhāṣitaratnabhāṇḍāgāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.subhasitaratnabhandagara.6.19.47) — Kāśīnātha Pāṇḍuraṅga Paraba 1886, Sanskrit
- [Padāvalī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.maithili.vidyapati.padavali-vidyapati.4.p1) — Vidyāpati, Sanskrit
- [Rasakalpadruma (Jagannātha Miśra)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.rasanirupana-works.rasakalpadruma-jagannathamisra.10.6) — Jagannātha Miśra 1600, Sanskrit

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