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# Gita Govinda 1.8.3

Gītagovinda 1.8.3

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8.3)

kajjala-malina-vilocana-cumbana-viracita-nīlima-rūpam |  
daśana-vasanam aruṇ aṃ tava krsṇa tanoti tanor anurūpam ||

> Krishna! my Krishna with the woodland-wreath!  
> Return, or I shall soften as I blame;  
> The while thy very lips are dark to the teeth  
> With dye that from her lids and lashes came,  
> Left on the mouth I touched. Fair traitor! go!  
> Say not they darkened, lacking food and sleep  
> Long waiting for my face; I turn it--so--  
> Go! ere I half believe thee, pleading deep;  
> — 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.8.p4) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.8.3) — English, machine translation

## Commentaries (4)

- [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka.18.2) — 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.97.3) — Sanskrit

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