Gītagovinda : love songs of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa
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Gītagovinda : love songs of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa
（The Clay Sanskrit library, 40）
New York University Press : JJC Foundation, 2009
1st ed
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Gītagovinda
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Sanskrit (romanized) text and English translation on facing pages
Bibliography: p. 193-201
Includes index
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Jayadeva's Gitagovinda is a lyrical account of the illicit springtime love affair of Krishna and Radha, a god and goddess manifesting on earth as a cowherd and milkmaid for the sake of relishing the sweet miseries and rapturous delights of erotic love. The narrative framing their bucolic songs was composed under royal patronage in northeastern India in the twelfth century. It was to be performed for connoisseurs of poetry and the erotic arts, for aesthetes and voluptuaries who, while sensually engaged, were at the same time devoted to Krishna as Lord of the Universe. The text at once celebrates the vicissitudes of carnal love and the transports of religious devotion, merging and reconciling those realms of emotion and experience. Erotic and religious sensibilities serve, and are served by, the pleasures of poetry. In the centuries following its composition, the courtly text became a vastly popular inspirational hymnal. Jayadeva's songs continue to be sung throughout India in fervent devotional adoration of Krishna.
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