Gita Govinda 1.6

English (machine translation) 1.6

Language: English

1.6.1 — 2 parts
1.6.2 — 1 part
1.6.12 — 2 parts

1.6.1

Then, seeing her, who had long loved him, unable to go to the bower of vines,
the confidante reported her condition to Govinda, who was languid with mind-born love:

1.6.1.p2

Sung in the melodic mode Guṇakarī and the rhythmic meter Rūpaka.

1.6.2

In secret she sees you in every direction,
drinking the sweet nectar of her lips.

1.6.2.p1

O Lord, O Hari, Rādhā pines away in her dwelling of longing. || Refrain

1.6.3

Rushing out in her eagerness to go meet you,
she takes a few steps and falls down.

1.6.4

Wearing bracelets made of white lotus-fibers and tender sprouts,
she lives here solely by the art of your amorous pleasure.

1.6.5

Repeatedly inspecting her play of ornaments,
she is possessed by the fancy: “I am the foe of Madhu.”

1.6.6

“Why does Hari not come swiftly to the amorous rendezvous?”
so she repeatedly asks her confidante.

1.6.7

Thinking Hari has arrived, she embraces and kisses
the deep darkness, resembling a raincloud.

1.6.8

When you delay, her modesty falling away,
dressed for union, she laments and weeps.

1.6.9

May this utterance of the poet Śrī Jayadeva
bring immense joy to discerning lovers.

Her hair standing intensely on end, her deep hissing sighs uttering words faltering with inner numbness,
immersed in an ocean of aesthetic flavor, fixing her meditation on you after intense longing inspired by Kandarpa, O rogue, the doe-eyed woman remains absorbed.

1.6.11

She puts ornaments on her limbs again and again; at the stirring of a single leaf she suspects you have arrived;
she spreads the couch; she meditates for a long time;
thus engrossed in a hundred fancies of dressing, doubting, preparing the bed, and longing, without you this slender-limbed woman cannot survive the night.

1.6.12

“Why do you rest, O traveler, in the Bhāṇḍīra tree, an abode of black serpents? Do you not see the joyful home of Nanda from here?”—
hearing these words of Rādhā from the mouth of a traveler and concealing them before Nanda,
victorious are Govinda’s evening words concealing praise of hospitality to guests.

1.6.12.p1

Thus ends the sixth sarga, entitled “Blessed Vaikuṇṭha,” in the description of the woman going to meet her lover, in the illustrious Gītagovinda.
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1.6.12.p3

Seventh Sarga:
Nārāyaṇa the Clever Lover

Translations (1)

The Indian Song of Songs — Edwin Arnold 1875, English

Commentaries (4)

Rasamañjarī — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
Rasikapriyā — Kumbhakarṇa, Sanskrit
Śrutirañjanī — Lakṣmīdhara 1567, Sanskrit
Commentary of Mānāṅka — Mānāṅka, Sanskrit

Linked texts (1)

Gītagovinda — Jayadeva, Sanskrit