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The songs of the Gitagovinda really belong to that type of music where poetry and melody are of equal importance. The songs are best rendered in the style of bhajans where in the feelings and emotions contained in the words and 6 padas are of primary importance. The varying unit in each song is the pada, a stanza that is one of a series of rhymed couplets occurring in a particular moric metrical pattern. From this comes the designation of the songs as padavali, 'stanza-series', a term that Jayadeva introduced in the Gitagovinda. Since the stanzas usually number eight, the songs are also referred to as astapadis,'eightstanza songs'. The songs of the Gitagovinda are sung in a variety of different ragas. Although the oldest manuscripts show striking agreement in designation a group of eleven different ragas for the twenty-four songs, there has been no traditional transmission or notation to assure that these names designate the same melodic Dinanath Pathy et.al. p.77 5. Samgitaratnakarah, pp.2-13 6. Panigrahi, Nilamadhava, "Music" Jayadeva and Gitagovinda, Dinanath Pathy, etal, Ed., p.84 7. Miller, B.S., Ed. The Gitagovinda of Jayadeva, p.10 204

8 patterns they do in later times.³ Gitagovinda is recognized as the richest and finest srngararasa-kavya which represents the highest primal aesthetic quality of Indian sentiments. Muni Bharata described srngara-rasa as the adi-rasa which causes the origin of the universe with its animate and inanimate objects. The Gitagovinda contains soft and fluid syllabic scheme of continuous sweet narrative and poetic forms and soothing meters that charm all lovers of poetry and music.9