Radha and Krishna in the Grove

Kangra (Punjab Hills), c. 1785

 

THE LOVES OF KRISHNA
IN INDIAN PAINTING AND POETRY

By

W. G. ARCHER

To
MR. AND MRS. H. N.
WITH LOVE AND ADMIRATION

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am deeply indebted to Dr. A.L. Basham for generous guidancethroughout the preparation of this book, to George Keyt forpermitting me to quote extensively from his brilliant translationof the Gita Govinda, and to Deben Bhattacharya who suppliedme with new translations of later poems and discussed a numberof important points. I must also express my deep gratitudeto Mildred Archer and to Gopi Krishna Kanoria for valuedcriticism and advice, to Messrs. Faber and Faber, the HarvillPress, Messrs. Macmillan, the Oxford University Press, thePhoenix House and Messrs. Sidgwick and Jackson for permittingme to quote passages from works still copyright, to ProfessorJ. Brough for an informative note on Bhanu Datta's Rasamanjariand to all those owners of collections who have eitherallowed me to reproduce pictures in their possession or havekindly supplied me with photographs.

Part of the material for this book was delivered as lectures tothe Royal Asiatic Society, the Royal India, Pakistan and CeylonSociety and at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

 

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CONTENTS

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I

INTRODUCTION

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