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Title

Authors

• Jayadeva, active 12th century

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959690013503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/851098114
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5969001

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript used for recitation and contemplation and is a poetic exploration of the amorous relationship between the Hindu deities Kṛṣṇa and Rādhā. Kṛṣṇa is presented not as an avatar of Viṣṇu, but as the essence of the universe itself. First literary work to fully develop the figure of Rādhā, the cow herdess, and her relationship with Kṛṣṇa. Poem is often approached as a devotional text by modern Vaiṣṇavas.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 9v).
   
• Written in 15-20 lines per leaf.
   
• 9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line on some folios.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Krishna (Hindu deity)--Poetry
• Rādhā (Hindu deity)--Poetry
• Avatars (Religion)
• Love poetry, Indic
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Vaishnavism

Genres

• Poems
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--17th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--17th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

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