[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) › 1.8.7 # Gita Govinda 1.8.7 Gītagovinda 1.8.7 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.8.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8.7) bahir iva malinataraṃ tava kṛṣṇa mano'pi bhaviṣyati nūnam | katham atha vañcayase janam anugatam asama-śara-jvara-dūnam || > Go, Krishna! go!--lest I should think, unwise, > Thy heart not false, as thy long lingering seems, > Lest, seeing myself so imaged in thine eyes, > I shame the name of Pity--turn to dreams > The sacred sound of vows; make Virtue grudge > Her praise to Mercy, calling thy sin slight; > Go therefore, dear offender! go! thy Judge > Had best not see thee to give sentence right. > — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs - [Previous: 1.8.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8.6) - [Next: 1.8.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8.8) - [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.p7) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.8.7) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (4) - [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna.24.5) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit - [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra.23.5) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit - [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara.18.8.5) — Lakṣmīdhara 1567, Sanskrit - [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka.18.6) — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (1) - [Kāvyasaṃgraha (Jīvānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.kavyasamgraha-jivananda.97.7) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8.7) · Pramāṇa