Jayadeva/ Suniti Kumar Chatterji

Jayadeva, the last of the ancient and the first of the modern Indo-Aryan literature -- Jayadeva - life and legends -- Jayadeva : claimed by Bengal, by Orissa and by Mithila -- Jayadeva's writings apart from the Gita-govinda - the verses in Sndharadasa's Sadhuki-Karnamrita -- the historical Jayadeva as a secular poet of love and Jayadeva the Saint and mystic poet of love; and the devotee of Krishna and Radha : the opening verse of the Gita-govinda -- the 26 verses by Jayadeva as in the Sadhuki-Karnamrita completing with the Gita-govinda, the Jayadeva corpus : Jayadeva a poet of many styles -- Jayadeva's poetic Digvijaya - throughout India and the world -- the Gita-govinda - a reflex of late middle Indo-Aryan or early new Indo-Aryan literature in its songs (Gitas)? -- the two hymns ascribed to Jayadeva in the Sikh Guru Granth Sahib (Adi Granth) -- 'Mangala' and 'Padavali' - in Jayadeva's Gita-govinda and in middle Bengali literature : Bengal's Adi-Kavi Jayadeva -- Jayadeva's pre-eminence as a saint-poet : the Bhakta-mala's tribute -- the Gita-govinda - its 8 canons and 24 songs and 386 verses : the name of the poem -- "Profane Love" and "Sacred Love" in Gita-govinda -- Jayadeva - traditional religious approach and modern factual approach -- the Gita-govinda and medieval Indian paintings -- two songs from the Gita-govinda, with English translation -- Radha and Krishna worship, and Hindu iconography -- metre and music in the songs of the Gita-govinda