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# Gita Govinda 1.7.22

Gītagovinda 1.7.22

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.7.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.22)

samudita-madane ramaṇī-vadane cumbana-valitādhare |  
mṛga-mada-tilakaṃ likhati sapulakaṃ mṛgam iva rajanī-kare ||

> When Madana has arisen on the lovely woman's face, her lips turned for a kiss, / thrilling with joy, he paints a musk forehead mark, like the hare on the moon.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> In vain, in vain!  
> Earth will of earth! I mourn more than I blame;  
> If he had known, he would not sit and paint  
> The tilka on her smooth black brow, nor claim  
> Quick kisses from her yielded lips--false, faint--  
> False, fragrant, fatal! Krishna's quest is o'er  
> By Jumna's shore!  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

### [1.7.22.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.22.p1)

ramate yamunā-pulina-vane vijayī murārir adhunā ||dhruva||||

> Now the victorious Murāri sports in the groves of the Yamunā's banks. ||Refrain  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (2)

- [The Indian Song of Songs](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-arnold.7.p26) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.7.22) — English, machine translation

## Commentaries (4)

- [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna.21.1) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit
- [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara.16.8.1) — Lakṣmīdhara 1567, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka.16.1) — Mānāṅka, 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.96.22) — Sanskrit

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