[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) › 2.3 # Gita Govinda 2.3 Gītagovinda 2.3 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.2.3.1) kaṃsāriḥ api saṃsāra-vāsanā-bandha-śṛṅkhalām / rādhām ādhāya hṛdaye tatyāja vraja-sundarīḥ // > Even the foe of Kaṃsa, holding Rādhā in his heart / as the chain binding him to worldly longing, abandoned the beauties of Vraja. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.2.3.2) itaḥ tataḥ tām anusṛtya rādhikām anaṅga-bāṇa-vraṇa-khinna-mānasaḥ / kṛta-ānutāpaḥ sa kalinda-nandinī-taṭa-anta-kuñje viṣasāda mādhavaḥ // > Having sought Rādhā here and there, his heart tormented by wounds from the arrows of the Bodiless One, > Mādhava, filled with remorse, sank down in despair in a bower on the bank of Kalinda's daughter. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.2.3.3) mām iyam calitā vilokya vṛtam vadhū-nicayena / sa-aparādhatayā mām api na vārita-atibhayena // harihari hata-ādaratayā gatā sā kupitā iva // > Seeing me surrounded by a crowd of young women, she walked away; > and I, conscious of my fault and utterly terrified, did not hold her back. > Alas, alas! Feeling slighted, she departed as if enraged. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.2.3.4) kim kariṣyati kim vadiṣyati sā ciram viraheṇa / kim dhanena janena kim mama jīvitena gṛheṇa // harihari hata-ādaratayā gatā sā kupitā iva // > What will she do? What will she say during this long separation? > What use to me is wealth, or people, or life itself, or home? > Alas, alas! Feeling slighted, she departed as if enraged. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.2.3.5) cintayāmi tat-ānanam kuṭila-bhru kopa-bhareṇa / śoṇa-padmam iva upari bhramatā ākulam bhramareṇa // harihari hata-ādaratayā gatā sā kupitā iva // > I picture her face, its brows knit with the weight of anger, > like a red lotus unsettled by a bee hovering above it. > Alas, alas! Feeling slighted, she departed as if enraged. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.2.3.6) tām aham hṛdi saṃgatām aniśam bhṛśam ramayāmi / kim vane anusarāmi tām iha kim vṛthā vilapāmi // harihari hata-ādaratayā gatā sā kupitā iva // > I delight in her intensely day and night as she dwells in my heart; > why do I follow her in this forest? Why do I lament here in vain? > Alas, alas! Feeling slighted, she departed as if enraged. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.2.3.7) tanvi khinnam asūyayā hṛdayam tava ākalayāmi / tat na vedmi kutaḥ gatā asi na tena te anunayāmi // harihari hata-ādaratayā gatā sā kupitā iva // > Slender girl, I know your heart is pained with jealousy; > I know not where you have gone, and therefore cannot appease you. > Alas, alas! Feeling slighted, she departed as if enraged. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.2.3.8) dṛśyase purataḥ gata-āgatam eva me vidadhāsi / kim purā iva sasaṃbhramaṃ parirambhaṇam na dadāsi // harihari hata-ādaratayā gatā sā kupitā iva // > You appear before me; you do nothing but come and go; > why do you not grant me an eager embrace, as in the past? > Alas, alas! Feeling slighted, she departed as if enraged. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.2.3.9) kṣamyatām aparam kadāpi tava īdṛśam na karomi / dehi sundari darśanam mama manmathena dunomi // harihari hata-ādaratayā gatā sā kupitā iva // > Forgive me; I will never again do such a thing to you! > Show yourself to me, beautiful one; I am tormented by love! > Alas, alas! Feeling slighted, she departed as if enraged. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.2.3.10) varṇitam jayadevakena hareḥ idam pravaṇena / kindubilva-samudra-sambhava-rohiṇī-ramaṇena // harihari hata-ādaratayā gatā sā kupitā iva // > This was composed by Jayadeva, devoted to Hari, > a moon born from the ocean of Kindubilva. > Alas, alas! Feeling slighted, she departed as if enraged. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.2.3.11) hṛdi bisa-latā-hāraḥ na ayam bhujaṅgama-nāyakaḥ kuvalaya-dala-śreṇī kaṇṭhe na sā garala-dyutiḥ / malayaja-rajaḥ na idam bhasma prihāra-hite mayi prahara na hara-bhrāntyā anaṅga krudhā kim u dhāvasi // > This necklace on my chest is a lotus stalk, not the king of serpents; > this garland of blue water-lily petals on my neck has not the gleam of poison; > this dust of sandalwood is not ashes, on me who am fit to strike— > do not strike me, mistaking me for Hara! O Bodiless One, why do you rush in wrath? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.2.3.12) pāṇau mā kuru cūta-sāyakam amum mā cāpam āropaya krīḍā-nirjita-viśva mūrcchita-jana-āghātena kim pauruṣam / tasyāḥ eva mṛgī-dṛśaḥ manasija-preṅkhat-kaṭākṣa-āśuga- śreṇī-jarjaritam manāk api manaḥ na adya api saṃdhukṣate // > Do not place that mango blossom arrow in your hand! Do not string your bow! > What manly valor is there in striking one who is already stunned, having conquered the universe in sport? > My mind, shattered by the shower of side-glance arrows fluttering with mind-born love from that fawn-eyed girl, > does not revive even a little, even now. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.2.3.13) bhrū-cāpe nihitaḥ kaṭākṣa-viśikhaḥ nirmātu marma-vyathām śyāma-ātmā kuṭilaḥ karotu kabarī-bhāraḥ api māra-udyamam / moham tāvat ayam ca tanvi tanutām bimba-adharaḥ rāgavān sat-vṛtta-stana-maṇḍalaḥ tava katham prāṇaiḥ mama krīḍati // > Let the side-glance arrow set upon the bow of her brow inflict a wound in my heart; > let her dark and winding mass of braid also strive to kill me; > and let her passionate, bimba-red lip spread confusion, O slender girl; > yet how is it that your well-rounded orb of breasts plays with my life? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.2.3.14) tāni sparśa-sukhāni te ca taralāḥ snigdhāḥ dṛśoḥ vibhramāḥ tat-vaktra-ambuja-saurabham saḥ ca sudhā-syandī girām vakrimā / sā bimba-adhara-mādhurī iti viṣaya-āsaṅge api cet mānasam tasyām lagna-samādhi hanta viraha-vyādhiḥ katham vardhate // > Those pleasures of her touch, those fluttering, tender glances, > the fragrance of her lotus face, the sweet ambrosial curve of her words, > that sweetness of her bimba-red lip—even though the mind is deeply absorbed > in contemplation fixed on her, alas, how does the disease of separation continue to grow? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.2.3.15) bhrū-pallavam dhanuḥ apāṅga-taraṅgitāni bāṇāḥ guṇaḥ śravaṇa-pāliḥ iti smareṇa / tasyām anaṅga-jaya-jaṅgama-devatāyām astrāṇi nirjita-jaganti kim arpitāni // > The shoot of her eyebrow the bow, her undulating side-glances > the arrows, her ear-lobe the string: did Smara thus deliver > his world-conquering weapons unto her, > the moving deity of the Bodiless One's triumph? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2~en-mt.2.3.1) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (4) - [Rasikapriyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2!kumbhakarna.39.p3) — 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 --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.khanda.gitakavya.gitagovinda-2.2.3) · Pramāṇa