02244nam a22001937a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801360007608200160021210000220022824500550025026000400030530000480034536500090039350506520040252008950105465500800194970000210202920180404104906.0180404b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d a9789383098064 aInternational Book DistributorsbFlat No. 17, Prakash Apartment , 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002c: 112025d:13/03/2018 a759.954 DEH aHarsha V Dehejia. aRadha b: from Gopi to goddesscHarsha V. Dehejia. aNew Delhi b: Niyogi Booksc, 2014. a260 pagesb : color illustrations c; 31 cm b2097 aPrathama: As We Begin -- Looking for Her in Vrindavan -- Meeting Her in Narsinh Mehta's Poetry-- Chitravali From Gujarat : An Early Gita Govinda -- Her Footsteps in the Gita Govinda -- As Mirror to My Hand: The Poems of Vidyapati-- An Absent Presence: In Vrindavana-- Her Presece in Mewar Paintings of Sursagar -- The Nathadwara Kalam -- The Courtly Nayika of Ritikavya -- Enjoying God: The Divine Paramour -- The Doe-eyed Nayika of Kishangarh -- Echoes in the Mountains -- Come to the Forest Where the Flowers Are Fragrant -- What Truths Are Hidden in This Dream -- Gavlan: Footprints in Marathi Literature -- Her Voice in Medieval Odiya Songs--  aRadha occupies a space which moves from the aesthetics of shringara rasa to the theology of shringara bhakti, from the madhurya of Pushtimarg Vaishnavism to the prema of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, taking in its stride the philosophies of Advaita and Dvaita, the traditions of Shakti and Shakta, she takes us from the devotional poetry of Bhaktikal to the courtly poetry of Ritikal and even beyond to the modern poetry of Adhunikkal. Radha is both kamini and ramani, desirable and beautiful, she is both a gopi and a nayika and through her we feel the presence of Krishna in Vrindavana and the opulence of the Vaishnava Rajput courts, she is a devi in the temples of the Gaudiyas and through her we are able to worship Krishna, and finally she is even a kalankini or the defiled one and through her we are privy to the folk literature of Bengal and modern middle class psychology of the bhadralok. afrom Gopi to goddessbPainting, Indic.bRadha -- (Hindu deity)bLiterature. aHarsha V Dehejia