Essay name: Gita-govinda of Jayadeva (comparative study)
Author:
Manisha Misra
Affiliation: Utkal University / Department of Sanskrit
This essay contains an English study of the Gita-Govinda by Jayadeva and the “Kishore Chandrananda Champu� by Kabisurya Baladev. The Gitagovinda is a Sanskrit Kavya poem of 12th century composed by Jayadeva whereas The “Kishore Chandrananda Champu� was written in the 18th century and was intended for a connection between the medieval poetry and modern literature.
Chapter 3 - A Critical and Musical study of the Gita-Govinda
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.7.3 Prabandha style verses in Gg. It has been proved that Gg. comes under the Prabandha category of poem. The language of the Prabandha songs of the Gg is simple. Sanskrit influenced by the developing regional languages which had still the influence of Prakrit apabhraṃsa on them. The text is impregnated with various aesthetic sentiments and the adirasasṛngāra (erotic) is predominant among them. Regarding Gg. Sukumar Sen says that the songs of Gg. are written in Sanskrit, but their diction as well as rhythm and rhyme belong to laukika poetry. By imparting tenderness and mellifluence of the popular musical lyric into the compactness of Sanskrit poetry Jayadeva made the last attempt at the latter's resurrection 108 2.7.4. The music of carya songs and Gg. According to the Sangitaratnākara, the caryāprabandha contains the following characteristics 109 1.
They are composed in the meters like Paddhati etc.
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They usually have the end rhymes like pādāntānuprāsa
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Their subject matter should be spiritual.
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In such songs the tāla shall be dvitīya. Kallinātha in explaining this aspect
envisages that by dvitiya, the tāla having same moraic contents can be
accepted as such 110
108. Sen, Sukumar, History of Begali literature, p.15
109. Sangitaratnakara�, iv, 294-5, p.340
110. Ibid.
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