Chapter Seven: Literature of the Rasika Tradition
- Jānakī-gīta. Composed by Sri Haryacharya.
- Rāma-vilāsa. Composed by Harinatha.
- Saṅgīta-raghunandana. In this eighteenth-century composition by Vishvanath Singh Ju, paired devotion to Sita and Rama is presented alongside imitation of the Gīta-govinda.
- Rāghava-vilāsa. Composed by Vishvanatha, author of the Sāhitya-darpaṇa.
- Rāma-śataka. Composed by Someshvara.
- Samāryā-śataka. Composed by Mudgala Bhatta.
- Āryā-rāmāyaṇa. Composed by Krishneshu.
These works contain no distinctive narrative material concerning Rama, but they attest to the popularity of the Rama story and its diffusion through every poetic form.1
Footnotes
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See Bulcke, Rāma-kathā, pp. 200–01, §§259, 253–44. ↩
