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Shrikrsnakirtan is a lyrical composition involving Radha and Krishna ; its storyline is not based on the Bhagavata Purana, but the popular folk-songs, known as the dhamalis. [3] However, Baru Chandidas managed to add substantial originality, making it a masterpiece of medieval Bengali literature. [1]
Govindadasa (1535–1613), was a Bengali Vaishnava poet known for his body of devotional songs addressed to Krishna. Living in an atmosphere of Krishna-bhakti preached by Sri Chaitanya (1486–1533), he composed extensively on the Radha-Krishna love legend. He is also known as Govindadasa Kaviraja.
The Hare Krishna mantra appears in a number of famous songs, notably those of George Harrison. His first solo single " My Sweet Lord " topped charts around the world in 1970–71. Harrison put a Hare Krishna sticker on the back of the headstock of Eric Clapton 's 1964 Gibson ES-335 ; the sticker also appears on Gibson's 2005 reproduction of the ...
In 1474, Maladhar Basu translated the 10th and 11th cantos of the Sanskrit Srimad Bhagavatam (composed c. 9th century), into the Bengali poem SriKrsnaVijay. Maladhar focused on Krishna's divine life, with the 10th canto relating the legends of Krishna as a child, and his Leela with the Gopis in Vrindavana.
Khandana Bhava–Bandhana, [a] Sri Ramakrishna Aratrikam, [1] or Sri Ramakrishna Arati [2] ("Breaker of this world’s chain"), [3] is a Bengali song composed by Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The song, dedicated to the 19th-century saint Ramakrishna , [ 6 ] was composed in 1898.
It is also the oldest Bengali narrative poem of Krishna legend. [1] It was composed between 1473 and 1480. [ 2 ] The long poem is a translation of the 10th and 11th cantos of the Bhagavata Purana ; a part of Vishnu Purana and the story of Ramayana is also incorporated here.
Chandidas or Caṇḍidāsa (Bengali: চন্ডীদাস; born 1408 CE, whose name means "servant of the furious goddess") refers to possibly more than one medieval poet of Bengal. Over 1250 poems related to the love of Radha and Krishna in Bengali with the signature line (bhanita) of a "Chandidas" have survived.
His father Durgadas Bagchi, was a Bengali Brahmin of Varendra clan. Baḍu Chandidas has been more or less identified as a historical figure, born in the 14th century in a Bengali Brahmin family of a small Tehsil city named Nanoor in Birbhum district of the present-day West Bengal state and wrote the lyrical Srikrishna Kirtan (Songs in praise ...