Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c11.s5.78

Early History of the Vaiṣṇava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c11.s5.78

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c11.s5.78

The Govinda-birudāvali, which purports to be a series of Stotras addressed to Kṛṣṇa, is an ambitious literary feat deliberately composed to illustrate practically all the forty-nine varieties of the new form. It is impossible to indicate here the diversity of effects attained, but a few specimens of the prose Kalikās may be given here to illustrate the style and type of composition. Thus, Utpala of seventeen moras and minimum of five Kalikās of the Caṇḍa-vṛtta variety:

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