[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) › 1.7.40 # Gita Govinda 1.7.40 Gītagovinda 1.7.40 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.7.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.40) ripur iva sakhi-saṃvāso'yaṃ śikhīva himānilo viṣam iva sudhā-raśmir yasmin dunoti mano-gate | hṛdayam adaye tasmin naivaṃ punar valate balāt kuvalaya-dṛśāṃ vāmaḥ kāmo nikāma-niraṇkuśaḥ || > I will depart and give > All back to Fate and her: I will submit > To thy stern will, and bow myself to it, > Enduring still, though desolate, to live: > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs > If it indeed be life, > Even so resigning, to sit patience-mad, > To feel the zephyrs burn, the sunlight sad, > The peace of holy heaven, a restless strife. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs > Haho! what words are these? > How can I live and lose him? how not go > Whither love draws me for a soul loved so? > How yet endure such sorrow?--or how cease? > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs - [Previous: 1.7.39.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.39.p1) - [Next: 1.7.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.41) - [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.p48) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.7.40) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (4) - [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna.22.7) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit - [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra.21.9) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit - [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara.17.8.5) — Lakṣmīdhara 1567, Sanskrit - [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka) — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (2) - [Subhāṣitaratnabhāṇḍāgāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.subhasitaratnabhandagara.6.15.23) — Kāśīnātha Pāṇḍuraṅga Paraba 1886, Sanskrit - [Kāvyasaṃgraha (Jīvānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.kavyasamgraha-jivananda.96.40) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.40) · Pramāṇa