________________ xviii In the well-known stanza "Unamilan-madhu-gandha-lubdhamadhupa..."! etc, which is steeped in Vipralambha-songara and saturated with Madhurya (sweetness ) we have a marvellous picture of the languishing listlessness of the travelling traders who sink into a reminiscent mood and contemplate deeply and tenderly on the joys of their union with their wives who are now away at home. Again, in the stanza 'Sa romancati, Sitkaroti? etc, which is rendered into English thus : "The down on her body stands on end, and she draws in her breath, a hissing sigh; She laments, she shivers, she swoons, she sinks into reverie, laughs and cries; She closes her eyes, she falls, she starts up, she droops ; and if you, a heavenly physician, Should calm down her high state of fever, O would she not live ? or her wordless gestures too she will end !" - The striking array of finite verbs, piled up in quick succession reveals the sattvika bhavas (horripilation, change of colour, weeping, trembling, perspiration, change of voice, fainting and stupefaction or insensibility) and the restlessness and overpowering and consuming love of Radha for Krsna Passages could be cited by scores to illustrate the lyrical quality. It is evident from the passages cited above that Jayadeva describes the transports of sensual love with all the exuberance of his fancy. He brilliantly portrays Radha in her different relations to her lover3 and vividly depitets her varied moods and feelings. With equal brilliance he draws graphic pictures of the lover in various moods. Despite the use of poetic conventions and heavy dependance on the science of erotics in the development of the sentiment of love the lyrical element of the Gitagovinda with the haunting melody of the verses strongly appeals to all men of poetic taste. In fine, the Gitagovinda stands unsurpassed as a devotional-cumlyrical poem in Sanskrit literature. Critical Apparatus : The commentary of king Mananka to Jayadeva's Gitagovinda which is being published for the first time, is based on the material from the following MSS: (1) Canto I, p. 15 (2)Canto IV, p. 44 (3) Radha who is distressed by his involuntary absence (virahotkanthita), I, II, IV); who awaits him in full dress (Vasakasajja, VI); who is deceived by him who fails to meet her at the rendezvous (Vipralabdha, VII); who is enraged at discovering him disfigured by the marks of her rival's teeth and nails (Khandita, VIII); who is severed from him and suffers remorse (Kalahantarita, IX); and who is his absolute mistress and he her obedient slave (Svadhinabhartrka,XI).
