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Gita Govinda: Love Songs of Radha and Krishna (Clay Sanskrit Library, 6) by Siegel, Lee;Jayadeva is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Jayadeva’s Gitagovínda 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 e
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- Author
- Siegel, Lee;Jayadeva
- Publisher
- JJC Foundation, New York University Press
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780814740781
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Poetry
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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