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# Gita Govinda 1.7.20

Gītagovinda 1.7.20

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.7.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.20)

śrī-jayadeva-bhaṇita-hari-ramitam |  
kali-kaluṣaṃ janayatu pariśamitam ||

> But may Radha's fond annoy,  
> And may Krishna's dawning joy,  
> Warm and waken love more fit--  
> Jayadeva prayeth it--  
> And the griefs and sins assuage  
> Of this blind and evil age.  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

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## Translations (2)

- [The Indian Song of Songs](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-arnold.7.p23) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.7.20) — English, machine translation

## Commentaries (4)

- [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka.15.8) — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit
- [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit
- [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara) — Lakṣmīdhara, 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.96.20) — Sanskrit
- [Padāvalī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.maithili.vidyapati.padavali-vidyapati.5.p9) — Vidyāpati, Sanskrit

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