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> Can he leave me thus to pine? > Yami hê kam sharanam! > Ah! what refuge then is mine? > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.3.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.3.p1) yāmi he kam iha śaraṇaṃ sakhī-jana-vacana-vañcitā ||dhruva|||| > To whom shall I go for refuge here, betrayed by the words of my confidantes? || Refrain > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.7.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.4) yad-anugamanāya niśi gahanam api śīlitam | tena mama hṛdayam idam asama-śara-kīlitam || > To follow him I braved even the deep forest at night; > by him this heart of mine has been pierced by the uneven arrows \[of love\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > For his sake I sought the wood, > Threaded dark and devious ways; > Yami hê kam sharanam! > Can it be Krishna betrays? > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.5) mama maraṇam eva varam iti vitatha-ketanā | NOTE: {iha iti ni-pāṭhāntaraḥ.} NOTE: {ativitatha-cetaneti ṭīkā-dhṛta-pāṭhāntaraḥ.} kim iha viṣahāmi virahānalam acetanā || > “My death alone is preferable,”—thus disappointed in her meeting place, > Note: \[iha is an alternative reading for iti\] > Note: \[ativitatha-cetanā is a variant reading preserved in the commentary\] > how can I, insensible with grief, endure here the fire of separation? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > Let me die then, and forget > Anguish, patience, hope, and fear; > Yami hê kam sharanam! > Ah, why have I held him dear? > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.6) mām ahaha vidhurayati madhura-madhu-yāminī | kāpi harim anubhavati kṛta-sukṛta-kāminī || > "Alas, the sweet spring night tortures me, / while some passionate woman of meritorious deeds enjoys Hari. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > Ah, this soft night torments me, > Thinking that his faithless arms-- > Yami hê kam sharanam!-- > Clasp some shadow of my charms. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.7) ahaha kalayāmi valayādi-maṇi-bhūṣaṇam | hari-viraha-dahana-vahanena bahu-dūṣaṇam || > Alas, I consider jeweled ornaments like bracelets / to be a great affliction through bearing the burning fire of separation from Hari. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > Fatal shadow--foolish mock! > When the great love shone confessed;-- > Yami hê kam sharanam! > Krishna's lotus loads my breast; > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.8) kusuma-sukumāra-tanum atanu-śara-līlayā | srag api hṛdi hanti mām ativiṣama-śilayā || > Upon my body, delicate as a flower, by the play of the Bodiless One's arrows, / even a garland strikes me upon the heart like a most jagged stone. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 'Tis too heavy, lacking him; > Like a broken flower I am-- > Necklets, jewels, what are ye? > Yami hê kam sharanam! > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.9) aham iha nivasāmi na-gaṇita-vana-vetasā | smarati madhusūdano mām api na cetasā || > Here I dwell, ignoring the reeds of the forest, / yet Madhusūdana does not remember me even in his mind." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > Yami hê kam sharanam! > The sky is still, the forest sleeps; > Krishna forgets--he loves no more; > He fails in faith, and Radha weeps. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.10) hari-caraṇa-śaraṇa-jayadeva-kavi-bhāratī | vasatu hṛdi yuvatir iva komala-kalāvatī || > May the speech of the poet Jayadeva, whose refuge is Hari's feet, / dwell in the heart like a tender maiden skilled in the arts. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > But the poet Jayadev-- > He who is great Hari's slave, > He who finds asylum sweet > Only at great Hari's feet; > He who for your comfort sings > All this to the Vina's strings-- > Prays that Radha's tender moan > In your hearts be thought upon, > And that all her holy grace > Live there like the loved one's face. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.11) tat kiṃ kām api kāminīm abhisṛtaḥ kiṃ vā kalā-kelibhir baddho bandhubhir andhakāriṇi vanābhyarṇe kim udbhrāmyati | kāntaḥ klānta-manā manāg api pathi prasthātum evākṣamaḥ saṅketī-kṛta-mañju-vāñjula-latā-kuñje'pi yan nāgataḥ || > "Has he gone to meet some other passionate woman? Or is he held fast by friends with artistic games? / Does he wander in the dark forest near here? / Is my beloved weary-minded, unable to walk even a little along the path, / since he has not come even to the bower of charming vāñjula creepers agreed upon for our rendezvous?" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > Yet, if I wrong him! (sang she)--can he fail? > Could any in the wood win back his kisses? > Could any softest lips of earth prevail > To hold him from my arms? any love-blisses > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs > Blind him once more to mine? O Soul, my prize! > Art thou not merely hindered at this hour? > Sore-wearied, wandering, lost? how otherwise > Shouldst thou not hasten to the bridal-bower? > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.12) athāgatāṃ mādhavam antareṇa sakhīm iyaṃ vīkṣya viṣāda-mūkām | viśaṅkamānā ramitaṃ kayāpi janārdanaṃ dṛṣṭavad etad āha || > Then, seeing her confidante returned without Mādhava, silent with despondency, / she, suspecting that Janārdana was dallying with another woman, spoke this as if she had seen it: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > But seeing far away that Maiden come > Alone, with eyes cast down and lingering steps, > Again a little while she feared to hear > Of Krishna false; and her quick thoughts took shape > In a fine jealousy, with words like these-- > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.12.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.12.p1) || prabandhaḥ 14 || > || Lyric Composition 14 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > Something then of earth has held him > From his home above, > Some one of those slight deceivers-- > Ah, my foolish love! > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.12.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.12.p2) vasanta-rāga-yati-tālābhyāṃ gīyate | > Sung in the melodic mode Vasanta and the rhythmic meter Yati. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.7.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.13) smara-samarocita-viracita-veśā | galita-kusuma-dara-vilulita-keśā || > Her adornment fashioned fit for the battle of Smara, / her hair slightly disheveled with fallen flowers, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > Some new face, some winsome playmate, > With her hair untied, > And the blossoms tangled in it, > Woos him to her side. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.13.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.13.p1) kāpi madhuripuṇā vilasati yuvatir adhika-guṇā ||dhruva|||| > some young woman of superior charms sports with the foe of Madhu. ||Refrain > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.7.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.14) hari-parirambhana-calita-vikārā | NOTE: {valita iti ni-pāṭhāntaraḥ.} kuca-kalaśopari taralita-hārā || > Her passions stirred by Hari's embrace, / her necklace swaying over her pitcher-like breasts, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > On the dark orbs of her bosom-- > Passionately heaved-- > Sink and rise the warm, white pearl-strings, > Oh, my love deceived! > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.15) vicalad-alaka-lalitānana-candrā | tad-adhara-pāna-rabhasa-kṛta-tandrā || > the moon of her face made lovely by tremulous curls, / overcome with languor from the haste of drinking his lips, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > Fair? yes, yes! the rippled shadow > Of that midnight hair > Shows above her brow--as clouds do > O'er the moon--most fair: > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.16) cañcala-kuṇḍala-dalita-kapolā | mukharita-raśana-jaghana-gati-lolā || > her cheeks grazed by dangling earrings, / swaying in the movement of her hips whose girdle of bells rings out, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > And she knows, with wilful paces, > How to make her zone > Gleam and please him; and her ear-rings > Tinkle love; and grown > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.17) dayita-vilokita-lajjita-hasitā | bahu-vidha-kūjita-rati-rasa-rasitā || > smiling with bashfulness when looked at by her lover, / murmuring in many ways, relishing the aesthetic flavor of amorous pleasure, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > Coy as he grows fond, she meets him > With a modest show; > Shaming truth with truthful seeming, > While her laugh--light, low-- > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs > And her subtle mouth that murmurs. > And her silken cheek, > And her eyes, say she dissembles > Plain as speech could speak. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.18) vipula-pulaka-pṛthu-vepathu-bhaṅgā | śvasita-nimīlita-vikasad-anaṅgā || > interrupted by broad horripilation and violent trembling, / sighs and half-closed eyes revealing mind-born love, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > And her subtle mouth that murmurs. > And her silken cheek, > And her eyes, say she dissembles > Plain as speech could speak. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.19) śrama-jala-kaṇa-bhara-subhaga-śarīrā | paripatitorasi rati-raṇa-dhīrā || > her body lovely under a shower of perspiration drops, / fallen upon his chest, brave in the battle of amorous pleasure! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > Till at length, a fatal victress, > Of her triumph vain, > On his neck she lies and smiles there:-- > Ah, my Joy!--my Pain! > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.20) śrī-jayadeva-bhaṇita-hari-ramitam | kali-kaluṣaṃ janayatu pariśamitam || > May Hari's dalliance, sung by the illustrious Jayadeva, / bring about the complete pacification of the impurities of the Kali age. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > But may Radha's fond annoy, > And may Krishna's dawning joy, > Warm and waken love more fit-- > Jayadeva prayeth it-- > And the griefs and sins assuage > Of this blind and evil age. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.21) viraha-pāṇḍu-murāri-mukhāmbuja-dyutir ayaṃ tirayann api vedanām | vidhur atīva tanoti mano-bhuvaḥ suhṛd aye hṛdaye madana-vyathām || > Having the luster of Murāri's lotus face pale in separation, yet veiling its pain, / this moon, the friend of mind-born love, intensifies to the utmost the torment of Madana in my heart, alas! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > O Moon! (she sang) that art so pure and pale, > Is Krishna wan like thee with lonely waiting? > O lamp of love! art thou the lover's friend, > And wilt not bring him, my long pain abating? > O fruitless moon! thou dost increase my pain > O faithless Krishna! I have striven in vain. > And then, lost in her fancies sad, she moaned-- > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.21.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.21.p1) || prabandhaḥ 15 || > || Lyric Composition 15 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > (What follows is to the Music GURJJARÎ and the Mode EKATÂLÎ) > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.21.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.21.p2) gurjarī-rāgaika-tāli-tālena gīyate | > Sung in the melodic mode Gurjarī and the rhythmic meter Ekatālī. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.7.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.22) samudita-madane ramaṇī-vadane cumbana-valitādhare | mṛga-mada-tilakaṃ likhati sapulakaṃ mṛgam iva rajanī-kare || > When Madana has arisen on the lovely woman's face, her lips turned for a kiss, / thrilling with joy, he paints a musk forehead mark, like the hare on the moon. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > In vain, in vain! > Earth will of earth! I mourn more than I blame; > If he had known, he would not sit and paint > The tilka on her smooth black brow, nor claim > Quick kisses from her yielded lips--false, faint-- > False, fragrant, fatal! Krishna's quest is o'er > By Jumna's shore! > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.22.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.22.p1) ramate yamunā-pulina-vane vijayī murārir adhunā ||dhruva|||| > Now the victorious Murāri sports in the groves of the Yamunā's banks. ||Refrain > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.7.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.23) ghana-caya-rucire racayati cikure taralita-taruṇānane | kurubaka-kusumaṃ capalā suṣamaṃ rati-pati-mṛga-kānane || > In her locks of hair charming as a cluster of clouds, over her trembling youthful face, / he arranges kurubaka blossoms with lightning-like splendor in the deer forest of the Lord of Amorous Pleasure. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > Vain--it was vain! > The temptress was too near, the heav'n too far; > I can but weep because he sits and ties > Garlands of fire-flowers for her loosened hair, > And in its silken shadow veils his eyes > And buries his fond face. Yet I forgave > By Jumna's wave! > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.24) ghaṭayati sughane kuca-yuga-gagaṇe mṛga-mada-ruci-rūṣite | maṇi-saram amalaṃ tāraka-paṭalaṃ nakha-pada-śaśi-bhūṣite || > Upon the sky of her pair of firm breasts, smeared with the sheen of musk / and adorned with the moons of nail-marks, he sets an immaculate pearl necklace, a cluster of stars. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > Vainly! all vain! > Make then the most of that whereto thou'rt given, > Feign her thy Paradise--thy Love of loves; > Say that her eyes are stars, her face the heaven, > Her bosoms the two worlds, with sandal-groves > Full-scented, and the kiss-marks--ah, thy dream > By Jumna's stream! > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.25) jita-bisa-śakale mṛdu-bhuja-yugale kara-tala-nalinī-dale | marakata-valayaṃ madhukara-nicayaṃ vitarati hima-śītale || > Upon her pair of tender arms, which surpass lotus-stalks, with palms like lotus leaves, / soothing as snow, he bestows emerald bracelets, like a swarm of bees. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > It shall be vain! > And vain to string the emeralds on her arm, > And hang the milky pearls upon her neck, > Saying they are not jewels, but a swarm > Of crowded, glossy bees, come there to suck > The rosebuds of her breast, the sweetest flowers > Of Jumna's bowers. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.26) rati-gṛha-jaghane vipulāpaghane manasija-kanakāsane | maṇi-maya-raśanaṃ toraṇa-hasanaṃ vikirati kṛta-vāsane || > On her broad hips, the chamber of amorous pleasure, the golden throne of mind-born love, / adorned with fragrant unguents, he drapes a jeweled girdle that derides an archway. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > That shall be vain! > Nor wilt thou so believe thine own blind wooing, > Nor slake thy heart's thirst even with the cup > Which at the last she brims for thee, undoing > Her girdle of carved gold, and yielding up, > Love's uttermost: brief the poor gain and pride > By Jumna's tide > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.27) caraṇa-kiśalaye kamalā-nilaye nakha-maṇi-gaṇa-pūjite | bahir-apavaraṇaṃ yāvaka-bharaṇaṃ janayati hṛdi yojite || > On her sprout-like feet, the dwelling of Kamalā, worshiped by rows of jewel-like nails, / when joined to his chest, he applies an outer coating, an adornment of red lac. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > Because still vain > Is love that feeds on shadow; vain, as thou dost, > To look so deep into the phantom eyes > For that which lives not there; and vain, as thou must, > To marvel why the painted pleasure flies, > When the fair, false wings seemed folded for ever > By Jumna's river. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [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 || > While the brother of Haladhara, rogue that he is, delights some beautiful-eyed woman intensely, / tell me, confidante, why have I dwelt here in vain for so long, tasteless in the hollow of a tree? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 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 ### [1.7.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.29) iha rasa-bhaṇane kṛta-hari-guṇane madhuripu-pada-sevake | kali-yuga-caritaṃ na vasatu duritaṃ kavi-nṛpa-jayadevake || > In this recitation of aesthetic flavor, this recitation of Hari's virtues, in the king of poets Jayadeva, / servant of the feet of Madhu's foe, let not the evil deed of the Kali age dwell! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > O great Hari! purge from wrong > The soul of him who writes this song; > Purge the souls of those that read > From every fault of thought and deed; > With thy blessed light assuage > The darkness of this evil age! > Jayadev the bard of love, > Servant of the Gods above, > Prays it for himself and you-- > Gentle hearts who listen!--too. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.29.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.29.p1) NOTE: {racitam iti kvacit dṛśyate.} > \[Note: {“composed” is seen in some places.}\] > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > O great Hari! purge from wrong > The soul of him who writes this song; > Purge the souls of those that read > From every fault of thought and deed; > With thy blessed light assuage > The darkness of this evil age! > Jayadev the bard of love, > Servant of the Gods above, > Prays it for himself and you-- > Gentle hearts who listen!--too. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.30) nāyātaḥ sakhi nirdayo yadi śaṭhas tvaṃ dūti kiṃ dūyase svacchandaṃ bahu-vallabhaḥ sa ramate kiṃ tatra te dūṣaṇam | paśyādya priya-saṅgamāya dayitasyākṛṣyamāṇaṃ guṇair utkaṇṭhārti-bharād iva sphuṭad idaṃ cetaḥ svayam yāsyati || > "Confidante, if that cruel cheat has not come, messenger, why are you distressed? / He enjoys himself at will, beloved of many; what fault of yours is there in that? / Look, drawn by the virtues of my beloved, / this heart of mine will go of itself today for union with my darling, as if bursting from the weight of longing's agony!" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > O great Hari! purge from wrong > The soul of him who writes this song; > Purge the souls of those that read > From every fault of thought and deed; > With thy blessed light assuage > The darkness of this evil age! > Jayadev the bard of love, > Servant of the Gods above, > Prays it for himself and you-- > Gentle hearts who listen!--too. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.30.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.30.p1) || prabandhaḥ 16 || > || Lyric Composition 16 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > (What follows is to the Music DESHAVARÂDÎ and the Mode RUPAKA.) > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs > O great Hari! purge from wrong > The soul of him who writes this song; > Purge the souls of those that read > From every fault of thought and deed; > With thy blessed light assuage > The darkness of this evil age! > Jayadev the bard of love, > Servant of the Gods above, > Prays it for himself and you-- > Gentle hearts who listen!--too. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.30.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.30.p2) deśavarāḍi-rāgeṇa rūpaka-tālena gīyate | > Sung in the melodic mode Deśavarāḍī and the rhythmic meter Rūpaka. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > O great Hari! purge from wrong > The soul of him who writes this song; > Purge the souls of those that read > From every fault of thought and deed; > With thy blessed light assuage > The darkness of this evil age! > Jayadev the bard of love, > Servant of the Gods above, > Prays it for himself and you-- > Gentle hearts who listen!--too. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [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) ### [1.7.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.32) vikasita-sarasija-lalita-mukhena | sphuṭati na sā manasija-viśikhena || > By him whose face is charming as a blooming lotus, / she is not pierced by the arrows of mind-born love. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > Love her, O thou rash lost soul! > With thy thousand graces; > Coin rare thoughts into fair words > For her face of faces; > Praise it, fling away for it > Life's purpose in a sigh, > All for those lips like flower-leaves, > And lotus-dark deep eye. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.33) amṛta-madhura-mṛdu-tara-vacanena | jvalati na sā malayaja-pavanena || > By him whose speech is softer and sweeter than nectar, / she does not burn from the sandal-scented breeze. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > Nay, and thou shalt be happy too > Till the fond dream is over; > And she shall taste delight to hear > The wooing of her lover; > The breeze that brings the sandal up > From distant green Malay, > Shall seem all fragrance in the night, > All coolness in the day. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.34) sthala-jala-ruha-ruci-kara-caraṇena | luṭhati na sā hima-kara-kiraṇena || > By him whose hands and feet have the beauty of land and water lotuses, / she does not writhe beneath the rays of the cold-maker moon. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > The crescent moon shall seem to swim > Only that she may see > The glad eyes of my Krishna gleam, > And her soft glances he: > It shall be as a silver lamp > Set in the sky to show > The rose-leaf palms that cling and clasp, > And the breast that beats below. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.35) sajala-jalada-samudaya-rucireṇa | dalati na sā hṛdi cira-viraheṇa || > By him who is lovely as a mass of rainclouds, / she does not shatter in her heart from prolonged separation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > The thought of parting shall not lie > Cold on their throbbing lives, > The dread of ending shall not chill > The glow beginning gives; > She in her beauty dark shall look-- > As long as clouds can be-- > As gracious as the rain-time cloud > Kissing the shining sea. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.35.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.35.p1) NOTE: {viraha-bhareṇa iti haridāsa-saṃskaraṇe } > \[Note: {“from the weight of separation” in Haridāsa's edition.}\] > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.7.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.36) kanaka-nikaṣa-ruci-śuci-vasanena | śvasiti na sā parijana-hasanena || > By him whose pure garment has the luster of a golden streak on a touchstone, / she does not sigh under the mocking laughter of companions. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > And he, amid his playmates old, > At least a little while, > Shall not breathe forth again the sigh > That spoils the song and smile; > Shall be left wholly to his choice, > Free for his pleasant sin, > With the golden-girdled damsels > Of the bowers I found him in. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.37) sakala-bhuvana-jana-vara-taruṇena | vahati na sā rujam atikaruṇena || > By him who is the finest youth among the people of all the worlds, / she does not bear a most pitiable affliction. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > For me, his Angel, only > The sorrow and the smart, > The pale grief sitting on the brow, > The dead hope in the heart; > For me the loss of losing, > For me the ache and dearth; > My king crowned with the wood-flowers! > My fairest upon earth! > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.38) śrī-jayadeva-bhaṇita-vacanena | praviśatu harir api hṛdayam anena || > Through these words uttered by the illustrious Jayadeva, / may Hari also enter the heart!" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > Hari, Lord and King of love! > From thy throne of light above > Stoop to help us, deign to take > Our spirits to thee for the sake > Of this song, which speaks the fears > Of all who weep with Radha's tears. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.39) mano-bhavānandana candanānila prasīda re dakṣiṇa muñca vāmatām | kṣaṇaṃ jagat-prāṇa nidāya mādhavaṃ puro mama prāṇa-haro bhaviṣyasi || > "O delighter of mind-born love! O sandal breeze from the south, be gracious! Abandon your perversity! / O breath of the world, having placed Mādhava before me for a moment, you may take my life!" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > But love is strong to pardon, slow to part, > And still the Lady, in her fancies, sang-- > Wind of the Indian stream! > A little--oh! a little--breathe once more > The fragrance like his mouth's! blow from thy shore > One last word as he fades into a dream; > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs > Bodiless Lord of love! > Show him once more to me a minute's space, > My Krishna, with the love-look in his face, > And then I come to my own place above; > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs ### [1.7.39.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7.39.p1) NOTE: {nidhāya iti ni-pāṭhāntaraḥ.} > \[Note: {“having placed” is an alternate reading.}\] > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [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 || > "When he has entered my mind, this company of confidantes pains me like an enemy, the cold breeze like a fire, the nectar-rayed moon like poison; / yet toward that merciless one, my heart does not turn away by force; / perverse is desire toward blue-lotus-eyed women, entirely unrestrained!" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 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 ### [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 || > "Inflict torment, breeze from the Malaya mountains! O five-arrowed god, take my life! I will not seek refuge in my home again! / Why this forbearance, O sister of death? Drench my limbs with your waves, let the burning of my body be quenched!" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 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 ### [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 || > In the morning, seeing Acyuta wrapped in a blue cloak and Rādhā's chest covered in a yellow garment, / when the circle of confidantes laughs freely with astonishment, / casting the tremulous corner of his eyes upon Rādhā's face with shame, / may this son of Nanda, with his sweetly smiling face, be for the joy of the world! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 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|| > Thus ends the seventh sarga, / entitled 'Nāgaranārāyaṇa' (The Sophisticated Nārāyaṇa), / in the great poem Gītagovinda, in the description of the disappointed heroine. / ||7 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > (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 > (8) > Eighth Sarga > Lakṣmī's Lord Abashed > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 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.p1) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.7.1) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (4) - [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna.19.1) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit - [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara.13.8.8) — Lakṣmīdhara 1567, Sanskrit - [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka.15.1) — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit - [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra.18.1) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (6) - [Mahāsubhāṣitasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.mahasubhasitasangraha.720) — Sanskrit - [Ujjvalanīlamaṇi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.bhaktirasa.ujjvalanilamani.10.107) — Rūpa Gosvāmin 1540, Sanskrit - [Kāvyasaṃgraha (Jīvānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.kavyasamgraha-jivananda.96.1) — Sanskrit - [Subhāṣitaratnabhāṇḍāgāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.subhasitaratnabhandagara.6.33.153) — Kāśīnātha Pāṇḍuraṅga Paraba 1886, Sanskrit - [Padāvalī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.maithili.vidyapati.padavali-vidyapati.5.p4) — Vidyāpati, Sanskrit - [Śārṅgadharapaddhati](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.kosa.sarngadharapaddhati.141.8) — Śārṅgadhara, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.7) · Pramāṇa