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# Gita Govinda 1.7.42

Gītagovinda 1.7.42

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.7.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.42)

prātar nīla-nicolam acyutam uraḥ saṃvīta-pītāṃśukaṃ rādhāyāś cakitaṃ vilokya hasati svairaṃ sakhi-maṇḍale |  
vrīḍā-cañcalam añcalaṃ nayanayor ādhāya rādhānane svādu-smera-mukho'yam astu jagad-ānandāya nandātmajaḥ ||

> Ah! if only visions stir  
> Grief so passionate in her,  
> What divine grief will not take,  
> Spirits in heaven for the sake  
> Of those who miss love? Oh, be wise!  
> Mark this story of the skies;  
> Meditate Govinda ever,  
> Sitting by the sacred river,  
> The mystic stream, which o'er his feet  
> Glides slow, with murmurs low and sweet,  
> Till none can tell whether those be  
> Blue lotus-blooms, seen veiledly  
> Under the wave, or mirrored gems  
> Reflected from the diadems  
> Bound on the brows of mighty Gods,  
> Who lean from out their pure abodes,  
> And leave their bright felicities  
> To guide great Krishna to his sides.  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

### [1.7.42.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.42.p1)

iti śrī-gīta-govinda-mahākāvye vipralabdhā-varṇane  
nāgara-nārāyaṇo nāma  
saptamaḥ sargaḥ  
||7||

> (Here ends that Sarga of the Gîta Govinda entitled VIPRALABDHAVARNANE NAGARANARAYANO.)  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

### [1.7.42.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.42.p2)

(8)  
aṣṭamaḥ sargaḥ  
vilakṣa-lakṣmīpatiḥ

> SARGA THE EIGHTH.  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

## Translations (2)

- [The Indian Song of Songs](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-arnold.7.p53) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.7.42) — English, machine translation

## Commentaries (4)

- [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna.22.9) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit
- [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara) — Lakṣmīdhara, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka) — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit
- [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [Subhāṣitaratnabhāṇḍāgāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.subhasitaratnabhandagara.1.12.175) — Kāśīnātha Pāṇḍuraṅga Paraba 1886, Sanskrit

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