History of Classical Sanskrit Literature c19.s4.14
History of Classical Sanskrit Literature c19.s4.14
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c19.s4.14
As a poet and rhetorician, Rūpa is of a high order.⁵ The poetic instinct saturated with bhakti or love for Kṛṣṇa manifested itself in several forms of composition, always with the life of Kṛṣṇa as its theme. Vidagdhamādhava, and Lalitamādhava⁶ are dramas in seven acts describing the loves of Kṛṣṇa, and Rādhā as related in the Bhāgavata, Dānakelikaumudī⁷ and is a bhāṇa with its hero, Kṛṣṇa. Hamsadūta and Uddhavasandeśa are poems of message,⁸ on the model of Meghadūta. Padyāvali is an anthology and names the authors it quotes.⁹
Cites (8)
- Bhāgavatapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- Lalitamādhava — Rūpa Gosvāmin 1537, Sanskrit
- Padyāvalī — Rūpa Gosvāmin 1520, Sanskrit
- Vidagdhamādhava — Rūpa Gosvāmin 1533, Sanskrit
- Haṃsadūta — Rūpa Gosvāmin 1500, Sanskrit
- Meghadūta — Kālidāsa, Sanskrit
- Dānakelikaumudī — Rūpa 1538, Sanskrit
- Uddhavasandeśa — Rūpa 1538, Sanskrit