[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) › 1.7.31 # Gita Govinda 1.7.31 Gītagovinda 1.7.31 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.7.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.31) anila-tarala-kuvalaya-nayanena | tapati na sā kiśalaya-śayanena || > "By him whose eyes are blue lotuses fluttering in the wind, / she does not burn on a bed of sprout-leaves, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > She, not Radha, wins the crown > Whose false lips seemed dearest; > What was distant gain to him > When sweet loss stood nearest? > Love her, therefore, lulled to loss > On her fatal bosom; > Love her with such love as she > Can give back in the blossom. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.31.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.31.p1) sakhi yā ramitā vana-mālinā ||dhruva-padam || > O confidante, she who is enjoyed by the wearer of wild-flower garlands! ||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.p38) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.7.31) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (4) - [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka.17.1) — 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 (1) - [Kāvyasaṃgraha (Jīvānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.kavyasamgraha-jivananda.96.31) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.31) · Pramāṇa