Gita Govinda -Jayadeva 417

Gita Govinda -Shri Jayadeva Gosvami

Act Eleven : sänanda govindaù

The Blissful Cowherd Boy

Scene Twenty : Song 20 : Verse 12

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käçméra-gaura-vapuñäm abhisärikäëäm
äbaddha-rekham abhito ruci-maïjarébhiù
etat tamäla-dala-néla-tamaà tamisraà
tat-prema-hema-nikañopalatäà tanoti

Translation

“The shimmering lustre of trysting heroines with fair saffron-complexioned bodies is the gold of love. That gold marks the testing stone of impenetrable darkness, which expands everywhere like the darkest leaves of the tamäla tree.”

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