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INTRODUCTION
Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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7. The GV: Its Model
For the metrical and poetic format Panditācārya is obviously indebted to the Gīta-Govinda (GG)1 of Jayadeva (12th century A. D.) which has inspired many subsequent poets to follow his unique model. Pandităcarya is closely following Jayadeva. The title GV is just like GG. The GG has 24 Prabandhas, so also the GV; the 25th, however, in the latter, looks like an appendage without the Aşṭaka but adding a Prayer and some biographical details about the author. Somehow the Sarga division (which has some Vṛttas, some Prabandhas and again some Vṛttas) of Jayadeva is not found in the GV. The pattern of Prabandha system is almost alike in both : to begin with, there are some verses in Akṣara Vṛttas; then comes an Aṣṭapadī, of necessarily eight verses only (Aşṭaka) in GV but sometimes (at least in two Prabandhas in the first Sarga) having more than eight verses in GG; and then a few more Vṛttas, to conclude the Prabandha. In the GG the Vṛtta and recitative come alternatively. The GG gives both Raga and Tala for the Aştapadi, but GV mentions only Raga. In both the
1) Ed
Venkateshwar Press, Bombay 1889; N. S. Press, 9th ed. Bombay 1949. A. B. Keith: A History of Sanskrit Literature, pp. 190f.
2) M. Krishnamachariar: History of Classical Sanskrit Literature, pp. 343f., Madras 1937. It is observed here that the cantos of GG correspond to the Kand is of the Bhagavata and the Astapadis to the 24 alphabets of Gayatri. 1) Panditācārya does not mention his name,
as Jayadeva has
done at the end of Aştapadi.
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