[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) › 1.7.25 # Gita Govinda 1.7.25 Gītagovinda 1.7.25 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.7.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.25) jita-bisa-śakale mṛdu-bhuja-yugale kara-tala-nalinī-dale | marakata-valayaṃ madhukara-nicayaṃ vitarati hima-śītale || > It shall be vain! > And vain to string the emeralds on her arm, > And hang the milky pearls upon her neck, > Saying they are not jewels, but a swarm > Of crowded, glossy bees, come there to suck > The rosebuds of her breast, the sweetest flowers > Of Jumna's bowers. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs - [Previous: 1.7.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.24) - [Next: 1.7.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.26) - [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.p29) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.7.25) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (4) - [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna.21.3) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit - [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra.20.3) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit - [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka.16.4) — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit - [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara) — Lakṣmīdhara, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.25) · Pramāṇa