This volume presents, for the first time in a western language, a full translation from the Sanskrit of an important traditional commentary on the six chapters of Book Ten of the Bhagavata Purana (Chapters 29-33, and 35) which narrate Krsna’s love-games with the Gopis. The Commentary is the Subodhini of the Founder/ saint Vallabhacarya, (c. 1479-c. 1531). The extensively-footnoted translation is preceded by an introduction which endeavors to explain Vallabhacarya’s fundamental viewpoint on the love-games, and several doctrines which became central to his system after finding their most perfect exemplification in the love-games. The "fundamental viewpoint" referred to is Vallabhacarya’s clear underlying presupposition that all Krsna’s Games in the Bhagavata, including the love-games, are meant to be perfect expressions and fulfilments of the moods (Skt. rasa) and sentiments (bhava) of Sanskrit aesthetic theory (alankara-sastra). And the two most important doctrines of Vallabhacarya that find expression in the love-games are those of "Total Love" (sarvatmabhava) and "Constraint" (nirodha). The translation of the commentary contains as well a new translation of the six Bhagavata chapters involved, which are now widely known and recognized to be among the most beautiful and interesting passages of the world’s scriptures.
The Grace of Lord Krishna: The Sixteen Verse-Treatises (Sodasagranthah) of Vallabhacharya
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