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The Indian Song of Songs: From The Sanskrit of The Gita Govinda of Jayadeva

by Edwin Arnold
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9788121292009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
  • Publisher Imprint: Gyan Publishing House
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  • Pages: 164
  • Original Price: INR 325.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 323 grams
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The "Gita Govinda," then, or "Song of Govind," is a Sanskrit idyll, or little pastoral drama, in which—under the form of Krishna, an incarnation of the god Vishnoo—the human soul is displayed in its relations alternately with earthly and celestial beauty. Krishna—at once human and divine—is first seen attracted by the pleasures of the senses (personified by the shepherdesses in the wood), and wasting his affections upon the delights of their illusory world. Radha is supreme in beauty, with a loveliness which is at once celestial, and yet enshrined in earthly mould. Her charms lift the mind to heavenly contemplations, and the God of Love, Kama, borrows his best weapons from them. With the aid of Lassen this “Song of Songs " goes, for the most part, fairly pace for pace with the Sanskrit text; although much has had to be modified, and the last Sarga omitted, in order to comply with the canons of Western propriety.

Sir Edwin Arnold KCIE CSI (1832–1904) was an English poet and journalist, who is most known for his work The Light of Asia. Arnold was born at Gravesend, Kent, the second son of a Sussex magistrate, Robert Coles Arnold. He grew up at Southchurch Wick, a farm in Southchurch, Essex, and was educated at King's School, Rochester; King's College London; and University College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate prize for poetry on the subject of "The Feast of Belshazzar" in 1852. He became a schoolmaster, at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and in 1856 went to India as Principal of the Deccan College at Poona, a post which he held for seven years, which includes a period during the mutiny of 1857, when he was able to render services for which he was publicly thanked by Lord Elphinstone in the Bombay Council. Here he received the bias towards, and gathered material for, his future works.

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