Singing Krishna: Sound Becomes Sight in Paramanand's Poetry
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Introduces Paramanand, one of India's poet-saints, his work, and this work's use in ritual.
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 1A Critical Perspective 1The Research Context 3The Experience of the Temple 4Situated Poetry: Sound Becoming Sight 6Plan for the Book: Following the Cycles 7Paramanand's Poetic World 9About Paramanand's Poetry 16Paramanand's Poetic Environment 19Serving Krishna 25Synaesthesia, Metaphor, and Transformation 28The End of the Night: Poetry, Memory, and Culture 33Sayan: While Braj Sleeps 33Paramanand's World 35Theater of Memory 42Mangala-Krishna Rises 51Srngar-Ornamentation 58Krishna's Morning Games: Creating Intimacy Through Treachery 63Gval-Boyhood Play 63The Gopi's Complaints to Yasoda 68Mixed Bhavas 72Shattered Boundaries and Spilled Milk: Metonymies of Love 81Afternoon: Experiencing the Food of Love 91Rajbhog-A Lunchtime Tryst in the Forest 91Mahatmya: Separation during the Afternoon Watch 100Public and PrivateLila 106Utthapan-Avani: Krishna's Arrival in Braj 108Exemplars of Bhava: The Cows and the Gopis 112Bhog and Sandhyarati-The Connoisseur of Rasa Eats and Goes to Bed 115Night: Playing the Game of Love 121Sayan Mana-Divine Jealousy 121The Sakhi's Counsel to Radha about Her Sulking and Pride 122Setting the Stage: A Romantic Evening and the Beauty of the Lovers 132The Sakhi's Warning 137The Sakhi's Message to Krishna 142The Resolution of Mana 145Krishna's Mana 146The Sakhi in Mana Poems 147Autumn to Spring: Gopis, Birds, and the Moon 151Sarad: The Autumn Full Moon 151Hemant: Vows of the Cold Winter 168Vasant: Spring and Holi 170Summer-Seeing Reality: The Synaesthetic Transformation 173Grisma: The Hot Season 173Vars: The Rainy Season 179Back to the Beginning 184Notes 189Works Cited 195Index 199
