[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) › 1.7.28 # Gita Govinda 1.7.28 Gītagovinda 1.7.28 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.7.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.28) ramayati subhṛśaṃ kam api sudṛśaṃ khala-haladhara-sodare | kim aphalam avasaṃ ciram iha virasaṃ vada sakhi viṭapodare || > And vain! yes, vain! > For me too is it, having so much striven, > To see this slight snare take thee, and thy soul > Which should have climbed to mine, and shared my heaven, > Spent on a lower loveliness, whose whole > Passion of claim were but a parody > Of that kept here for thee. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs > Ahaha! vain! > For on some isle of Jumna's silver stream > He gives all that they ask to those hard eyes, > While mine which are his angel's, mine which gleam > With light that might have led him to the skies-- > That almost led him--are eclipsed with tears > Wailing my fruitless prayers. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs - [Previous: 1.7.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.27) - [Next: 1.7.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.29) - [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.p32) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.7.28) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (4) - [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna.21.6) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit - [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara.16.8.7) — Lakṣmīdhara 1567, Sanskrit - [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka.16.7) — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit - [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.28) · Pramāṇa