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# Gita Govinda 1.8

Gītagovinda 1.8

- **Language:** Sanskrit

## Contents

- [1.8.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8.1) — 2 parts
- [1.8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8.2) — 1 part
- [1.8.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8.11) — 3 parts

### [1.8.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8.1)

atha katham api yāminīṃ vinīya smara-śara-jarjaritāpi sā prabhāte |  
anunaya-vacanaṃ vadantam agre praṇatam api priyaṃ āha sābhyasūyam ||

> Then, having somehow passed the night, though shattered by Smara's arrows,  
> at dawn, with indignation, she addressed her beloved,  
> who stood bowed before her, speaking words of conciliation:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> For when the weary night had worn away  
> In these vain fears, and the clear morning broke,  
> Lo, Krishna! lo, the longed-for of her soul  
> Came too!--in the glad light he came, and bent  
> His knee, and clasped his hands; on his dumb lips  
> Fear, wonder, joy, passion, and reverence  
> Strove for the trembling words, and Radha knew  
> Peace won for him and her; yet none the less  
> A little time she eluded him, and sang:  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

### [1.8.1.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8.1.p1)

|| prabandhaḥ 17 ||

> || Lyric Composition 17  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> (What follows is to the Music BHAIRAVÎ and the Mode YATI)  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

### [1.8.1.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8.1.p2)

bhairavi-rāga-yati-tālābhyāṃ gīyate |

> Sung in the melodic mode Bhairavī and the rhythmic meter Yati.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8.2)

rajani-janita-guru-jāgara-rāga-kaṣāyitam alasa-nimeṣam |  
vahati nayanam anurāgam iva sphuṭam udita-rasābhiniveśam ||

> Reddened by the deep sleeplessness born of night, its blinking sluggish,  
> your eye bears, as it were, a manifest passion, its absorbed aesthetic flavor aroused.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> Krishna!--then thou hast found me!--and thine eyes  
> Heavy and sad and stained, as if with weeping!  
> Ah! is it not that those, which were thy prize,  
> So radiant seemed that all night thou wert keeping  
> Vigils of tender wooing?--have thy Love!  
> Here is no place for vows broken in making;  
> Thou Lotus-eyed! thou soul for whom I strove!  
> Go! ere I listen, my just mind forsaking.  
> — Edwin Arnold 1875, The Indian Song of Songs

### [1.8.2.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8.2.p1)

hari hari yāhi mādhava yāhi keśava mā vada kaitava-vādam |  
tām anusara sarasīruha-locana yā tava harati viṣādam || dhru. ||

> Hari, Hari! Go, Mādhava! Go, Keśava! Speak no deceitful words! / Follow her, lotus-eyed one, who takes away your sorrow! // Refrain  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [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 ||

> Given a dark hue by kissing eyes stained with collyrium,  
> your red lip, Kṛṣṇa, makes itself look just like your body.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> 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

### [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 ||

> Your body bears scratches from sharp nails received in love's battle,  
> like a record of victory in amorous pleasure, written in gold upon a piece of emerald.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> 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

### [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 ||

> Sprinkled with red lac dripping from lotus feet, this broad chest of yours  
> shows outwardly, as it were, a cluster of fresh sprouts from the tree of desire.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> 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

### [1.8.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8.6)

daśana-padaṃ bhavad-adhara-gataṃ mama janayati cetasi khedam |  
kathayati katham adhunāpi mayā saha tava vapur etad abhedam ||

> The tooth-mark upon your lip produces grief in my heart;  
> how can it now say that your body is non-different from mine?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> 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

### [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 ||

> Just like your exterior, Kṛṣṇa, your mind must surely be even darker;  
> why else do you deceive this woman who is devoted to you and tormented by the fever of the Odd-Arrowed One's shafts?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> 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

### [1.8.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8.8)

bhramati bhavān abalā-kavalāya vaneṣu kim atra vicitram |  
prathayati pūtanikaiva vadhū-vadha-nirdaya-bāla-caritram ||

> You wander in the forests to devour helpless women—what is strange in that?  
> Pūtanā alone made known your youthful deeds, merciless in slaying women.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.8.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8.9)

śrī-jayadeva-bhaṇita-rati-vañcita-khaṇḍita-yuvati-vilāpam |  
śṛṇuta sudhā-madhuraṃ vibudhā vibudhālayato'pi durāpam ||

> Listen, wise gods, to the lament uttered by Śrī Jayadeva of the young woman deceived in love and wronged by infidelity,  
> sweet as nectar and hard to attain even in the realm of the gods.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.8.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8.10)

tavedaṃ paśyantyāḥ prasarad-anurāgaṃ bahir iva priyā-pādālakta-cchuritam aruṇa-cchāya-hṛdayam |  
NOTE: {dyoti-}  
mamādya prakhyāta-praṇaya-bhara-bhaṅgena kitava tvad-ālokaḥ śokād api kim api lajjāṃ janayati ||

> Looking at this chest of yours, its reddish glow smeared with the red lac of your beloved's feet,  
> as if your passion were spilling outside,  
> the sight of you, deceiver, today causes me, along with grief, a certain shame  
> because the heavy love once so renowned has been broken.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.8.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8.11)

antar-mohana-mauli-ghūrṇana-calan-mandāra-visraṃśana-stambhākarṣaṇa-dṛṣṭi-harṣaṇa-mahā-mantraḥ kuraṅgī-dṛśām |  
NOTE: {vibhraṃśana}  
NOTE: {dṛpti}  
dṛpyad-dānava-dūyamāna-diviṣad-durvāra-duḥkhāpadāṃ bhraṃśaḥ kaṃsa-ripor vyapohayatu vaḥ śreyāṃsi vaṃśī-ravaḥ ||

> May the sound of Kaṃsa's enemy's flute take away your misfortunes and grant blessings—  
> that great mantra which enchants the hearts of fawn-eyed maidens, captivating their gaze and freezing them as it shakes loose mandāra flowers falling from their swaying crests,  
> and which destroys the unbearable distress and disasters of the gods tormented by arrogant demons!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.8.11.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8.11.p1)

NOTE: {vyapolayatu vaḥ śreyāṃsi iti ni-pāṭhaḥ.}

> NOTE: {The variant reading is vyapolayatu vaḥ śreyāṃsi.}  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.8.11.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8.11.p2)

iti śrī-śrī-gīta-govinde mahā-kāvye khaṇḍitā-varṇane  
vilakṣa-lakṣmīpatir nāma  
aṣṭamaḥ sargaḥ  
||8||

> Thus ends the eighth sarga,  
> entitled 'Lakṣmī's Lord Abashed',  
> in the great poem Śrī-Gītagovinda,  
> in the description of the wronged woman.  
> || 8  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.8.11.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.1.8.11.p4)

navamaḥ sargaḥ  
mugdha-mukundaḥ

> Ninth Sarga  
> Bewildered Mukunda  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (2)

- [The Indian Song of Songs](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-arnold.8.p1) — Edwin Arnold 1875, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.1.8.1) — English, machine translation

## Commentaries (4)

- [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna.24.1) — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit
- [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra.23.1) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka.18.p1) — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit
- [Śrutirañjanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!laksmidhara.17.8.9) — Lakṣmīdhara 1567, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (4)

- [Mahāsubhāṣitasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.mahasubhasitasangraha.1645) — Sanskrit
- [Kāvyasaṃgraha (Jīvānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.kavyasamgraha-jivananda.97.1) — Sanskrit
- [Padāvalī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.maithili.vidyapati.padavali-vidyapati.6.p1) — Vidyāpati, Sanskrit
- [Subhāṣitaratnabhāṇḍāgāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.subhasitaratnabhandagara.6.42.4) — Kāśīnātha Pāṇḍuraṅga Paraba 1886, Sanskrit

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