[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) › 1.7.11 # Gita Govinda 1.7.11 Gītagovinda 1.7.11 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.7.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.11) tat kiṃ kām api kāminīm abhisṛtaḥ kiṃ vā kalā-kelibhir baddho bandhubhir andhakāriṇi vanābhyarṇe kim udbhrāmyati | kāntaḥ klānta-manā manāg api pathi prasthātum evākṣamaḥ saṅketī-kṛta-mañju-vāñjula-latā-kuñje'pi yan nāgataḥ || > Yet, if I wrong him! (sang she)--can he fail? > Could any in the wood win back his kisses? > Could any softest lips of earth prevail > To hold him from my arms? any love-blisses > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs > Blind him once more to mine? O Soul, my prize! > Art thou not merely hindered at this hour? > Sore-wearied, wandering, lost? how otherwise > Shouldst thou not hasten to the bridal-bower? > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs - [Previous: 1.7.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.10) - [Next: 1.7.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.12) - [Up: 1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7) ## Translations (2) - [The Indian Song of Songs](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-arnold.7.p12) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.7.11) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (4) - [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra.19.8) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit - [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara.14.8.6) — 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 ## Linked texts (3) - [Subhāṣitaratnabhāṇḍāgāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.subhasitaratnabhandagara.6.80.75) — Kāśīnātha Pāṇḍuraṅga Paraba 1886, Sanskrit - [Kāvyasaṃgraha (Jīvānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.kavyasamgraha-jivananda.96.11) — Sanskrit - [Padāvalī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.maithili.vidyapati.padavali-vidyapati.5.p5) — Vidyāpati, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.11) · Pramāṇa