A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s8.236

v3.c35.s8.236

In fact the songs of Jayadeva are sung even in temples and on days of religious festivals and they accompany dance as well'¹. Since attempt has been made by every commentator, hardly correctly, to interpret many of its erotic verses as having a mystical meaning, love of human soul (Rādhā) for God (Kṛṣṇa), in any case it is true that the poem has a religious character and that in the opinion of the poet the whole eroticism of the poem is merely a part of the *bhakti*, the religious devotion to God Kṛṣṇa.