Memory of Love Surdas Sings to Krishna

Name: Memory of Love Surdas Sings to Krishna
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ISBN: 9780195373998

ISBN-10: 0195373995

ISBN-13: 9780195373998

Edition: 2009

Authors: John Stratton Hawley, John Stratton Hawley, John Stratton Hawley

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Surdas is unarguably the best known poet in Vrajbhasha, the most widely understood of the medieval Hindi literary dialects. He is the foremost Hindi poet of Krishna devotion and his verses are canonical in the Krishnaite tradition, which today is particularly vital in Western India. The verses are sung popularly throughout the Hindi-speaking regions. As with most legendary poet-singers in Indian oral tradition, Surdas's authorship has been attributed to a great many verses. In hiscase, these constitute a very large corpus of devotional lyrics to Krishna, known in Hindi as the Sur Sagar, "Sur's Ocean." In this volume, Jack Hawley offers a selection of his charming translations of the most…

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List price: $35.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/7/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.21" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Transliteration


Abbreviations


Manuscripts Consulted


Introduction


Poems from Sur's Ocean



Krishna growing up



The pangs and politics of love



Krishna departs for Mathura, never to return



The bee-messenger



Lordly encounters - and others



R1m1yaaa



The poet's petition and praise



To the holy rivers


Notes


Bibliography of Works Cited


List of Poems by English Title


List of Poems by Brajbh1n1 Title