Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c11.s3.22

c11.s3.22

is, in spite of its laboured ingenuity, a typical instance of Rūpa's gracefully refined composition. It describes the loving glance of Rādhā, when Kṛṣṇa bars her way, by an implied comparison to a full-blown flower (stavakinī), with its lovely bunch of seven conflicting emotional expressions (as a result of feminine pride, desire, jealousy, fear and anger, accompanied by smile and tears), which complex combination of erotic gestures is defined in rhetorical works as Kilakiñcita.¹