Krsna's Round Dance Reconsidered: Hariram Vyas's Hindi Ras-pancadhyayi

by Heidi Rika Maria Pauwels

Overview

Concerned with the process in Hinduism of reinterpreting classical texts and imbuing them with new inspiration. An example par excellence is Hariram Vyas's Ras-pancadhyayi, the earliest known Braj Bhasa version of the five chapters of Bhagavatapurana on Krsna's Dance with the Gopis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780700704262
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/11/1996
Series:	SOAS London Studies on South Asia , #12
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Text and Transmission; Chapter 2 R?s-pañc?dhy?y?: Text and Translation; Chapter 3 The Tradition Reinterpreted; Conclusion;

Editorial Reviews

'This excellent study fills an important gap in the materials needed for continuing progress in the study of north Indian Krsna poetry and religion.' - Stuart McGregor, Bulletin of SOAS

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