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The Gita Govinda was one of the first Sanskrit poems to be rendered into English—Sir William Jones publishing a mellifluous version in Asiatick Researches in 1792. Later in the nineteenth century it was translated into Victorian verse by Sir Edwin Arnold. The present translation from which all the extracts are taken is by George Keyt, the foremost modern artist of Ceylon. It is greatly to be hoped that the entire translation, hitherto available only in an Indian edition, will one day be published in England.
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Poems [1] and [2] are based on versions by O.C. Gangoly (Masterpieces of Rajput Painting, 29, 58); poems [3]-[11] are from new translations by Deben Bhattacharya.