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.
Jayadeva ashtapadi lyrics with meaning series#
govínda: Love Songs of Radha and Krishna clay Sanskrit series There is a Sanskrit text and literal translation”Gita govindam 2008 There is also a rendering into poesy The Songs of Radha from the Gitagovinda 2013. Lakshminarasimha Sastri The Gita Govinda of Jayadeva Madras, 1956 Duncan Greenlees Theosophical rendering The Song of the Divine Madras, 1962 Monica Varmas transcreation The Gita Govinda of Jayadeva published by Writers Workshop Calcutta, 1968 Barbara Soler Miller Jayadevas Gitagovinda :Love song of the Dark Lord Oxford University press Delhi,1978 Lee Siegel Gita Lassen in Bonn 1837 Notable English translations are:Edwin Arnolds The Indian Song of Songs 1875 George Keyt Sri Jayadevas Gita Govinda: The loves of Krsna and Radha Bombay, 1940 S. van Dalberg Dalbergs version was based on the English translation done by William Jones published in the Transactions of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta in 1792 A verse translation by the German poet Friedrick Rukert was began in 1829 and revised according to the edited Sanskrit and Latin translations of C. The poem has been translated into most modern Indian languages and many European languages There is a German rendering which Goethe read by F.