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Brooklyn Museum - Krishna and Radha Seated on a Terrace. The Rādhikā-sāntvanam ('Appeasing Radhka') is a poem composed by the Telugu-language poet and devadasi Muddupalani (1739–90) concerning the marital relationship of the deity Krishna, his new wife Ila, and her aunt Radha and the appeasement of the jealousy of Radha.
In Vidyapati's work, Radha is depicted as a young girl barely twelve years old, while Krishna is depicted slightly older than her and as an aggressive lover. In the work of poet Chandidas, Radha is depicted as a bold woman who is unafraid of social consequences. Radha abandons all social propriety in the name of her love for Krishna.
The subject matter of the poetry is the love of Radha and Krishna, on the banks of the Yamuna in Vrindavana; their secret trysts in the forests, Krishna's charms including his magic flute, the love of the gopis for Krishna, Radha's viraha on being separated from Krishna and her anguish on seeing him sporting with the other gopis. Much of the ...
Garga-samhita contents # Khanda (Book) Number of chapters Content 1 Goloka-khanda: 20 Pastimes of Radha Krishna in Goloka, Structure of Goloka.: 2 Vrindavana-khanda: 26 Krishna's pastimes with Radha, Gopis and Gopas (cowherds); identifies various places (including Vrindavan) in the Mathura mandala (region) as the sites of these events.
[2] [25] Radha and Krishna are presented as inseparable, and Radha is described as the energy and power (shakti) of Krishna. [ 25 ] The Purana presents an egalitarian view towards women, wherein it asserts ideas such as, "all female beings have come forth out of the divine female" in chapter 4.13, and that "every insult to a woman is an offence ...
Ashtasakhi with Radha Krishna at Sri Radha Rasbihari Ashtasakhi Temple, Vrindavan. Lalita: Out of eight prominent sakhi, Lalita is the foremost sakhi. She is the eldest gopi among Ashtasakhi and is 27 days older than Radha. She was born to her parents Visoka (father) and Saradi (mother) in Unchagaon, near Barsana. [6]
Once the 100 years of separation period was over for Radha Krishna, Krishna came back to Braj and met all the Ashtasakhi and Radha in the Kadli forest. There Krishna summoned a huge divine chariot and took Radha, all the gopis including Lalita and residents of Braj back to their celestial abode Goloka. [12] [13]
Jayadeva worshipping Krishna and Radha. The work delineates the love of Krishna for Radha, the milkmaid, his faithlessness and subsequent return to her, and is taken as symbolical of the human soul's straying from its true allegiance but returning at length to the God which created it.