The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry by Archer W. G.;

Author:Archer, W. G.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1900298
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

(ii) The Gita Govinda

The first poem to express this changed conception is the Gita Govinda —the Song of the Cowherd—a Sanskrit poem written by the Bengali poet, Jayadeva, towards the close of the twelfth century. Its subject is the estrangement of Radha and Krishna caused by Krishna’s love for other cowgirls, Radha’s anguish at Krishna’s neglect and lastly the rapture which attends their final reunion. Jayadeva describes Radha’s longing and Krishna’s love-making with glowing sensuality yet the poem reverts continually to praise of Krishna as God.

If in recalling Krishna to mind there is flavour

Or if there is interest in love’s art

Then to this necklace of words—sweetness, tenderness, brightness—

The words of Jayadeva, listen.

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