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# Gita Govinda 1.8.5

Gītagovinda 1.8.5

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.8.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8.5)

caraṇa-kamala-galad-alaktaka-siktam idaṃ tava hṛdayam udāram |  
darsayatīva bahir madana-druma-nava-kiśalaya-parivāram ||

> For dar'st thou feign the saffron on thy bosom  
> Was not implanted in disloyal embrace?  
> Or that this many-coloured love-tree blossom  
> Shone not, but yesternight, above her face?  
> Comest thou here, so late, to be forgiven,  
> O thou, in whose eyes Truth was made to live?  
> O thou, so worthy else of grace and heaven?  
> O thou, so nearly won? Ere I forgive,  
> — 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.p6) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.8.5) — English, machine translation

## Commentaries (4)

- [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna.24.3) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit
- [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra.23.3) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara.18.8.4) — Lakṣmīdhara 1567, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka.18.4) — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [Kāvyasaṃgraha (Jīvānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.kavyasamgraha-jivananda.97.5) — Sanskrit

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