Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c8.s3.73

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The number of works cited for poetical quotations in the Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi is much fewer. The number of such quotations hardly exceeds two hundred and fifty, as against nearly four hundred of the previous work.² As the erotic sentiment is its theme, there is more scope here for citations from general literary works and less from the Śāstras. The quotations from the Purāṇas and other Vaiṣṇava scriptures are indeed not many, but the author strictly confines himself to such general poetical works as possess a decided Vaiṣṇava leaning, or concern themselves with the theme of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. Thus, works like the *Gita-govinda* of Jayadeva or *Śrīkṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta* of Līlāśuka are freely drawn upon for illustration of the different phases of the Rasa, but the largest number of quotations is supplied by the poetical and dramatic works of Rūpa Gosvāmin himself, which appear thus to have been composed with the special object of illustrating the different phases of Kṛṣṇa-līlā. The works and authorities cited are: