Details

Standardized Title:

Gītagovinda. Selections

Subjects:

Radha (Hindu deity) -- Poetry.
Radha (Hindu deity).
Krishna (Hindu deity) -- Poetry.
Krishna (Hindu deity).
Love poetry, Indic.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Vaishnavism.

Form/Genre:

Poetry.
Poems.
Drawings (visual works)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

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. Manuscript is not complete, ending on the 134th verse.

Notes:

Title from title abbreviations in margins.
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
13 leaves foliated 1-13, upper left and lower right verso.
Explicit: daṃpatyor iha ko na ko na tamasi vrīdāvimiśro rasaḥ // 134 // (f. 13r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins. Scribe has doodled drawings of elephants, birds, and a face on various leaves of the manuscript.

Cited in:

Listed in H.I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 1638 (UP 1486).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1486.

OCLC:

911625692