Jayadeva : poet of Gita-Govinda, lyrics on the early life & love of Krishna as Govinda (the cowherd), & Radha. Jayadeva graced the court of King Lakshmaṇa Sena of Bengal (c.1180-c. 1202).
... the poems, and it has helped perhaps the tendency to lavishness. Sanskrit poetry, even when it clothes itself in the regal gold and purple of Kalidasa, or flows in the luscious warmth and colour of Jayadeva, keeps still a certain background of massive restraint, embanks itself in a certain firm solidity; the later poetry of the regional languages, though it has not that quality, is oftenest sparing at ...
... civilisation that count among their great works and their great names the Veda and the Upanishads, the mighty structures of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, Kalidasa and Bhavabhuti and Bhartrihari and Jayadeva and the other rich creations of classical Indian drama and poetry and romance, the Dhammapada and the Jatakas, the Panchatantra, Tulsidas, Vidyapati and Chandidas and Ramprasad, Ramdas and Tukaram ...
... pleasure one has known, yet holding an essence of all pleasure in a profound purity. In the moment of that emergence one tells oneself: "How inadequate are all attempts by lyrical poets like Jayadeva to symbolise this mysterious inner intoxication by thrilling pictures of romantic sensuality!" The "feel" of the psychic experience is worlds apart from anything connected with sex. Page 373 ...
... phrase. Here we meet in each metrical kind with the most perfect discoveries of verbal harmony in the Sanskrit language (pure lyrical melody comes only afterwards at the end in one or two poets like Jayadeva), harmonies founded on a constant subtle complexity of the fine assonances of sound and an unobtrusive use of significant cadence that never breaks the fluent unity of tone of the music. And the other ...
... the schools listening to the boring lessons of history and geography, where you have no tales except those of battles and deserts. In my history class I have never heard the story of Kalidasa or of Jayadeva. But one day, when I was reading Meghadootam stealthily in my class, my teacher somehow noticed it. As I looked up at him with fear and rebellion in my eyes, I was reprimanded, and my dear book ...
... unknown versifier, while describing the special qualities of the beauties of the different provinces of India, remarked that the beauty of teeth is the speciality of the women of Bengal. The famous poet Jayadeva also was enamoured of the lustre of the shining teeth of the Bengali women. We may not be consciously aware of it, but there is a grace and a charm on the faces of the women of Bengal. Faultless beauty ...
... physical propensities and the sense-objects is less prevalent in our country. The teeming wealth of sensuality that is found ¹ The highest heaven. Page 160 in Kalidasa and Jayadeva has hardly any parallel in the literature of any other country. But the oriental approach is quite different from the occidental. The consciousness and the attitude with which Europe has accepted ...
... the appropriate stage and occasion comes forward, embodies itself so to say, in the external creative movement. We know this process, although somewhat symbolically described, in the famous song of Jayadeva describing the Avataras. The Gods, I have said, are types, self-existent realities, models for new creations which are gradually coming forward in the material world, which are to be directed and ...
... power of sound, voice and articulation. Hence the inner Being, the true Being of delight, does not always relish even the sweet noise – as Hamlet speaks out: it is all words, words, words – or as Jayadeva declares: Mukharam adhiram tyaja mañjiram (Take away your restless garrulous anklets.) Pasyanti vak is the spontaneous voice, the soundless sound of this inner Being; it is the ...
... Victor, 191 ILIAD, 22 India , 10-12, 24-5, 57, 112, 189, 254 Indra, 134, 138, 144,203,272 JALANDHRIPADA, 280 Janaka, 49, 51 Jayadeva, 149 –Gita Govinda, 147 Jayanandi, 286 Joshi, Yogishananda Nath Nilkantha Sharma, 155 KALI, 265 Kalki, 149 Kamali, 260 Kanhu, 260-1 ...
... Kalki. Victory to the Lord! Victory to the Master of the World! Listen to the sublime hymn that brings happiness and welfare, the very cream of creation, sung by the poet Jayadeva. I bow down to Krishna, to his ten incarnations, to him who saves the Vedas, who bears the world, uplifts the earth, slays the Titans, confounds Bali, destroys the Kshattriyas ...
... these followers of Zarathustra had taken refuge on the hospitable shores of India. It was in the middle of the seventh century that they first landed in Diu, an islet in Gujarat, where its king, Jayadeva, made them feel at home. The Parsee community's contribution to the nation is considerable. —Sir Jamsetji N. Tata (1839-1904) is perhaps the best known figure among his Parsee brethren ...
... syllables. Only the language is richer and more developed. We do not find this peculiar kind of perfection in any other master of classical verse. Bhavabhuti's manner is bold, strenuous, external; Jayadeva's music is based palpably upon assonance and alliteration which he uses with extraordinary brilliance and builds into the most enchanting melodies, but without delicacy, restraint or disguise. If there ...
... Vaisnavism practised in Bengal from Chaitanya's times. Bhakti of the Tagorean kind foregrounds Beauty and the aesthetic, and does have a link with texts as ancient as the Narada Bhakti Sutras, or Jayadeva's Gita Govinda . It celebrates the body and the world and takes delight in the plenitude and variety of nature. Bhakti itself is a democratising tendency and clearly broke through caste and ritualistic ...
... sport of circumstances. I have, I think, more than once, written the same thing as Krishnaprem though in a different language. ____________________ *Krishnaprem quotes this first verse from Jayadeva's famous hymn to the ten Avataras of Narayana. This verse describes His coming to save the drowning earth (in the cataclysmic Deluge) as a vast Saviour Fish which took the earth on its back: I have ...
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