Jayadeva's Gitagovinda is a lyrical account of the illicit
springtime love affair of Krishna and Radha, a god and goddess
manifesting on earth as a cowherd and milkmaid for the sake of
relishing the sweet miseries and rapturous delights of erotic love.
The narrative framing their bucolic songs was composed under royal
patronage in northeastern India in the twelfth century. It was to
be performed for connoisseurs of poetry and the erotic arts, for
aesthetes and voluptuaries who, while sensually engaged, were at
the same time devoted to Krishna as Lord of the Universe. The text
at once celebrates the vicissitudes of carnal love and the
transports of religious devotion, merging and reconciling those
realms of emotion and experience. Erotic and religious
sensibilities serve, and are served by, the pleasures of poetry. In
the centuries following its composition, the courtly text became a
vastly popular inspirational hymnal. Jayadeva's songs continue to
be sung throughout India in fervent devotional adoration of
Krishna."
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