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# Gita Govinda 1.7.41

Gītagovinda 1.7.41

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.7.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.41)

bādhāṃ vidhehi malayānila pañca-bāṇa prāṇān gṛhāṇa na gṛhaṃ punar āśrayiṣye |  
kiṃ te kṛtānta-bhagini kṣamayā taraṅgair aṅgāni siñca mama śāmyatu deha-dāhaḥ ||

> Wind of the Indian wave!  
> If that thou canst, blow poison here, not nard;  
> God of the five shafts! shoot thy sharpest hard,  
> And kill me, Radha,--Radha who forgave!  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

> Or, bitter River,  
> Yamûn! be Yama's sister! be Death's kin!  
> Swell thy wave up to me and gulf me in,  
> Cooling this cruel, burning pain for ever.  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

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## Translations (2)

- [The Indian Song of Songs](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-arnold.7.p51) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.7.41) — English, machine translation

## Commentaries (4)

- [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna.22.8) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit
- [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara.17.8.6) — Lakṣmīdhara 1567, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka.17.8) — Mānāṅka, 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.96.41) — Sanskrit

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