Radha - Folk Heroine Or Divine Playmate by Sanujit Ghose


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ProductID: 22225 - Hardcover - 308 Pages (Year: 2007)
Asian Publication Services ~ ISBN: 8190316605

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This book for the first time draws upon a wide sweep of more than two thousand years of Radha in a varied role in art and literature. She is found in the humble religious life, in Prakrit poetry and folklore. Leading poets from the late seventh or early eighth century AD onwards, rave about Radh as a follow-up to Hala’s Gatha Saptasati. There is no cloak of devotion or adulation to the Supreme Being.

Since 450 AD the Tamil epic Cilappatikaram, the southern Harivamsa and the Bhyagavata Purana hint at Pinnai, the earliest consort of Krishna as the lineage of Radha in Sanskrit Literature. The classic erotic treatise, Kamasutra of Vatsayana comes in view at this time. Rising trade between India, Iran and Rome on one side and China on the other through the Silk Route lobbed the rich to fleeting pleasures.

In the next phase, Radha is the epitome of angelic beauty and supreme devotion among the Hindus facing the marauding Muslims. The Vaisnava savants especially in Bengal made Radha a divine being in the sixteenth century.

With the rising nationalist sentiments during the nineteenth century, Radha became the mirror image of humdrum love to the utter relish of the royalty and noblemen of the day

Table of Contents

Preface

CHAPTER 1
Life and Times of Krishna

CHAPTER 2
Renaissance in Religion, Art and Culture

CHAPTER 3
Appearance of Radha

CHAPTER 4
Radha in full Bloom

CHAPTER 5
Mature Portrait of Radha

CHAPTER 6
Cult of the Goddess

CHAPTER 7
The Enchanting Heroine

Glossary of Sanskrit Terms

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Sanujit Ghose, born in 1940 in Kolkata, graduated from the Calcutta University and did his Master’s from the University of Delhi. An Indian Administrative Service officer of 1964 batch, he had a distinguished career in the government. His observant journey led to various archaeological sites, religious institutions and mythological habitations in India and abroad. His enquiring mind took in what he saw, soaked up what interested him most. He has drawn upon a vast wealth of bhakti literature form almost all over the country. His gleaning of facts and figures for more than a decade is wrapped up in this study and research on Radha folk heroine or divine playmate.

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