[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) › 2.11.12 # Gita Govinda 2.11.12 Gītagovinda 2.11.12 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.11.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.2.11.12) kāśmīra-gaura-vapuṣām abhisārikāṇām ābaddha-rekham abhitaḥ ruci-mañjarībhiḥ / etat tamāla-dala-nīla-tamam tamisram tat-prema-hema-nikaṣa-upalatām tanoti // > For the women going to meet their lovers, their bodies fair as saffron, / casting streaks on every side with the sprays of their luster, / this darkness, black as a tamāla leaf, / performs the work of a touchstone for the gold of their love. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.11.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.2.11.11) - [Next: 2.11.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.2.11.13) - [Up: 2.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.2.11) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.2.11.12) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (4) - [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 - [Commentary of Mānāṅka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!mananka) — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit - [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!sankara-misra) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (1) - [Mahāsubhāṣitasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.mahasubhasitasangraha.9943) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.2.11.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.2.11.12) · Pramāṇa