Essay name: Gita-govinda of Jayadeva (comparative study)
Author:
Manisha Misra
Affiliation: Utkal University / Department of Sanskrit
This essay contains an English study of the Gita-Govinda by Jayadeva and the “Kishore Chandrananda Champu� by Kabisurya Baladev. The Gitagovinda is a Sanskrit Kavya poem of 12th century composed by Jayadeva whereas The “Kishore Chandrananda Champu� was written in the 18th century and was intended for a connection between the medieval poetry and modern literature.
Chapter 3 - A Critical and Musical study of the Gita-Govinda
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The rāsalīlā of Kṛṣṇa is a famous and popular episode in the ancient texts. So where the hero is a figure of erotics sentiment, no doubt, the poem is the best one, prosperous with erotic from the sentimental point of view. 2.1.2 The riti and guṇa According to Bhagavan Panda the Gg is a beautiful work endowed with sweet, simple and melodious words and remains unparalleled in the whole of the Sanskrit literature 31. The style of Gg exhibits a deviation from earlier. compositions of similar nature, while the previous lyrical works in Sanskrit were composed in traditional meters like Āryā, Mandakrāntā, Vasantatilakā etc., Gg has treated a novel path by including songs in tunes of Rāga like Mālava, Vasanta, Gujjarī, etc. 32. The stylistic approach of a poem expressed by its rīti� and guṇa�. Visvanātha Kavirāja has given the definition of rīti or diction as: पदसंघटना रीतिरंगसंस्थाविशेषवत� � उपकर्त्री रसादीना� सा पुनः स्याच्चतुर्विध� || [padasaṃghaṭanā rītiraṃgasaṃsthāviśeṣavat | upakartrī rasādīnā� sā puna� syāccaturvidhā || ] 33 As a person has many limbs combined, a poem also has the union of word and related meaning. The combination of words technically is known as the Rīti 34. Among these three are usually enumerated i.e. Vaidarbhi, Gauḍ�, Pāñcālī to which a fourth is sometimes added, viz. Lāṭīkā Lāṭ� and even a fifth and sixth, via. Avantikā or Yāvantikā and Māgadhi³5 30. Apte, V.G., Ed. Vrahmavaivartapurāṇam, part-1, pp.10-22 31. Panda, Bhagavan, Styie, Jayadeva & Gîtagovinda, A collection of Articles, p.139 32. Miller, B.S., Introduction to Gītagovinda, pp.7-14 33. Saligrama Sastri, Ed. Sahityadarpaṇa�, p.270 34. Ibid, p. 270 49
