Jagat

Verse 1.1.1 of the Bhāgavatam is commented on three times by Sri Jiva Goswami in the Sandarbhas, once in Paramātma Sandarbha (Anu 105) and twice in Kr̥ṣṇa Sandarbha (Anu 82 and 189). All of these are contained within the Krama Sandarbha. This is a Facebook post from May 12, 2016 but was never published on the blog,

Some of the following is repetition and there is still work needed on the footnotes, some of which appear to have gotten lost. 5.1 The controversy According to Karnānanda , at some time after the GC had arrived in Bengal, a controversy arose in Yajigrama between Vyasacharya, Narottamadasa, Ramachandra Kaviraja, Govindadasa Kaviraja, and other Vaishnavas. The subject of contention was that of sādhya and sādhanā . Narottama states in his Prema-bhakti-candrikā that "that which is desired for in the course of one's devotional practices is matched in the stage of perfection".(1) Jiva's GC appeared to contradict this by postulating a svakīyā rather than parakīyā state in the nitya-līlā . The dispute was referred to Jiva Goswami for his final verdict and letters were received from him which supposedly settled the matter.(2) Whatever the truth of the Karnānanda account, and it is undoubtedly true that the arrival of Gopāla-campū provoked controversy amongst t...

This is the second last of the series. I have some reflections that I will make in a subsequent article, but for the time being, just getting this file up on line has been time consuming. I will give a table of contents with links as soon as I can. I will try to put a bit of order into everything. The files have been fairly long for a blog and the Sanskrit puts the spell checker through a frenzy, poor beast, and I do not know what magic words to whisper in his ear to quieten his spirits. (4) Does Krishna Marry the Gopis in the End? Rasa Shastra . Rupa's UN commences with an outline of the romantic hero ( nāyaka ), who to the author can only be Krishna. He describes him as being of two kinds, either a husband ( pati ) or a paramour ( upapati ). His incarnation as husband takes place in Dvaraka, while that of paramour is found in Vraja. As an example of Krishna the paramour, Rupa quotes with relish an old verse by Acarya Gopika found in SKM (275) and also in Pv (205). He footn...

3.1 The background to the svakīyā - parakīyā controversy The term parakīyā arises from the literary critical tradition rather than the puranic. The word means "belonging to another" and generally indicates "the wife of another", the equivalent of para-dāra (in Kāma-sūtra ), para-yoṣit, para-kalatra , etc. According to the Kavyālaṁkara of Rudrata, the first extant work which makes the division of the nāyikā into parakīyā and svakīyā , it includes both unmarried virgins ( kanyā ) and adulteresses ( paroḍhā ).(1) Though it is clear that the gopis were always conceived of as being parakīyā , there is some uncertainty about which of its two categories they belonged to. The earliest epic/puranic source, Harivaṁśa , and the earliest secular source, Hala's Gāhāsattasāi , make no definitive clarification of the matter, though in a verse pertaining to the Sattasāi tradition, the gopis are depicted as still hoping for marriage to Krishna, thus indicating th...