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Gita Govinda -Shri Jayadeva Gosvami
Act One : sämoda dämodaraù
The Delighted Captive of Love
Verse 3
Commentary
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Ancient authorities on rhetoric have concluded that mädhurya guëa and komalatä, the qualities of sweetness and tenderness, are of two types: çabdäçrita, related to the individual words, and arthäçrita, related to the wonderful emotional impact of those words. Both types are evident in this composition. In addition to offering obeisances, blessings and a definition of content, an auspicious invocation traditionally includes: (1) Sambandha – the relationship between the subject matter and the text. (2) Abhidheya – the method of attainment. (3) Prayojana – the ultimate objective. (4) Adhikära – the qualifications required to appreciate the subject matter. Remembrance of the amorous pastimes of Shri Rädhä-Mädhava is abhidheya. Shri Rädhä-Mädhava are pratipädya, the expounded subject, and the poem is pratipädaka, the expounder. Therefore pratipädya and pratipädaka are in smärya-smäraka sambandha, the relationship of the memorable and the memorial. Only devotees who experience ecstatic spiritual emotions when they hear and recite the loving pastimes of Shri Rädhä-Mädhava are qualified. This third verse features dépaka alaìkära, päïcälé réti, kaiçiké våtti and drutavilambita chanda. |
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