[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) › 1.8.4 # Gita Govinda 1.8.4 Gītagovinda 1.8.4 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8.4) vapur anuharati tava smara-saṅgara-khara-nakhara-kṣata-rekham | marakata-śakala-kalita-kala-dhauta-liper iva rati-jaya-lekham || > But wilt thou plead, when, like a love-verse printed > On the smooth polish of an emerald, > I see the marks she stamped, the kisses dinted > Large-lettered, by her lips? thy speech withheld > Speaks all too plainly; go,--abide thy choice! > If thou dost stay, I shall more greatly grieve thee; > Not records of her victory?--peace, dear voice! > Hence with that godlike brow, lest I believe thee. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs - [Previous: 1.8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8.3) - [Next: 1.8.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8.5) - [Up: 1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8) ## Translations (2) - [The Indian Song of Songs](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-arnold.8.p5) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.8.4) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (4) - [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra.23.2) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit - [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara.18.8.3) — Lakṣmīdhara 1567, Sanskrit - [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka.18.3) — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit - [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (2) - [Kāvyasaṃgraha (Jīvānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.kavyasamgraha-jivananda.97.4) — Sanskrit - [Padāvalī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.maithili.vidyapati.padavali-vidyapati.6.p5) — Vidyāpati, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8.4) · Pramāṇa