[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) › 1.7.23 # Gita Govinda 1.7.23 Gītagovinda 1.7.23 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.7.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.23) ghana-caya-rucire racayati cikure taralita-taruṇānane | kurubaka-kusumaṃ capalā suṣamaṃ rati-pati-mṛga-kānane || > Vain--it was vain! > The temptress was too near, the heav'n too far; > I can but weep because he sits and ties > Garlands of fire-flowers for her loosened hair, > And in its silken shadow veils his eyes > And buries his fond face. Yet I forgave > By Jumna's wave! > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs - [Previous: 1.7.22.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.22.p1) - [Next: 1.7.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.24) - [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.p27) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.7.23) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (4) - [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra.20.1) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit - [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara.16.8.2) — Lakṣmīdhara 1567, Sanskrit - [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka.16.2) — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit - [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (1) - [Padāvalī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.maithili.vidyapati.padavali-vidyapati.5.p12) — Vidyāpati, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.23) · Pramāṇa