Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c8.s1.6

c8.s1.6

ardent devotee, follows very closely (even though his peculiar theme makes him depart in detail) the general outlines of the orthodox scheme of Poetics, adopting its main ideas and technicalities but making them applicable to the conception of emotional Bhakti. Not content with theoretical analysis, Rūpa Gosvāmin also took the trouble of writing a number of devotional poems and dramas and compiling an anthology on Kṛṣṇa-līlā for the special purpose of illustrating his theme. In the two Rasa-treatises every detail of elaborate analysis is freely illustrated by more than six hundred quotations from current sentimental and religious literature, as well as from these illustrative poems and dramas composed by Rūpa himself and his associates.