![]() ![]() ![]() To even comprehend the Gita Govinda’s reach would require some level of mastery of every facet of Indian art! What’s more, a large portion of this conquest happened within just a century after its composition. Jayadeva-ashtapadi-lyrics-in-tamil-pdf-download.pdf - The Ashtapadi is a work by Jayadeva, a great devotee of Krishna. ![]() From the easternmost corner of Manipur and Assam, where it spawned a tradition of dance and singing to Bengal, where this was an essential element of Sri Chaitanya’s movement down to Orissa, where even today virtually every art form from Odissi dance to music to temple sculpture involves them to Andhra, where it is the soul of several Kuchipudi dance compositions down to Tamil Nadu, where Carnatic music rejoices in newer and newer tunings of its lyrics, tens of Sanskrit treatises elaborate on how it can be performed in dance, Tanjore paintings celebrate its scenes, and temple traditions make Bhajans out of it to Kerala, where the dance form Mohiniattam derived great inspiration, and an entire genre of music, Sopana Sangeetham, was born as these Ashtapadis were sung on the temple stairs up to the coast of Karnataka, where it inspires Yakshagana dances to this day up to Maharashtra and Gujarat, where it was a key nucleator of the Krishna-Bhakti traditions to Rajasthan, the central territories and the Gangetic plain, all the way up to Kashmir where several hundred derivative works have appeared in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and local languages. These Ashtapadis’ very alluring mixture of context, melody, simplicity, and really, a certain je ne sais quoi have made them Sanskrit literature’s greatest cross-platform blockbuster hit. ![]()
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