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Gita Govinda

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The Gita Govinda (ଗୀତ ଗୋବିନ୍ଦ, Bengali:গীতগোবিন্দ, Devanagari: गीत गोविन्द) (Song of Govinda) is a work composed by the 12th-century Indian poet, Jayadeva. [1]

34 relations: Ashta Nayika, Ashtapadi, Barbara Stoler Miller, Bengali language, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Devanagari, Edwin Arnold, Foreword, George Keyt, Gopi, Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh, Govinda, Harold Peiris, Hinduism, Honolulu Museum of Art, Indian classical dance, Indian Museum, Kolkata, Jayadeva, Jayadeva birth controversy, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Kenduli Sasan, Kolkata, Krishna, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Museum, New Delhi, Odisha, Odissi, Radha, Sanskrit, The Asiatic Society, Vedic and Sanskrit literature, Vrindavan, William Jones (philologist), Works of Jayadeva.

Ashta Nayika

The Ashta-Nayika is a collective name for eight types of nayikas or heroines as classified by Bharata in his Sanskrit treatise on performing arts - Natya Shastra.

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Ashtapadi

Ashtapadis or Ashtapadi refers to the Sanskrit hymns of the Geetha Govinda, composed by Jayadeva in the 12th Century.

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Barbara Stoler Miller

Barbara Stoler Miller (August 8, 1940 – April 19, 1993) was a scholar of Sanskrit literature.

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Bengali language

Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia.

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Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya

The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (translation: 'king Shivaji museum'), abbreviated CSMVS and formerly named the Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, is the main museum in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

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Devanagari

Devanagari (देवनागरी,, a compound of "''deva''" देव and "''nāgarī''" नागरी; Hindi pronunciation), also called Nagari (Nāgarī, नागरी),Kathleen Kuiper (2010), The Culture of India, New York: The Rosen Publishing Group,, page 83 is an abugida (alphasyllabary) used in India and Nepal.

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Edwin Arnold

Sir Edwin Arnold KCIE CSI (10 June 1832 – 24 March 1904) was an English poet and journalist, who is most known for his work The Light of Asia.

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Foreword

A foreword is a (usually short) piece of writing sometimes placed at the beginning of a book or other piece of literature.

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George Keyt

George Keyt (17 April 1901 – 31 July 1993) was a Sri Lankan painter.

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Gopi

Gopi (गोपी) is a Sanskrit word originating from the word Gopala referring to a person in charge of a herd of cows.

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Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh

Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh, is a premier museum of North India having collections of Gandharan sculptures, Pahari and Rajasthani miniature paintings.

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Govinda

and (Sanskrit/Hindi: गोविन्द/गोविंद and गोपाल) (also known as) are the names of Vishnu which mean "The finder of Veda" & "Protector of Veda" as 'Go' means Veda, Cow and also senses.

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Harold Peiris

Harold Peiris (1904–1988) was a Sri Lankan artist, lawyer, author, scholar, teacher and translator.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion and dharma, or a way of life, widely practised in the Indian subcontinent.

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Honolulu Museum of Art

The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaiokinai.

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Indian classical dance

Indian classical dance, or Shastriya Nritya, is an umbrella term for various performance arts rooted in religious Hindu musical theatre styles,, Quote: All of the dances considered to be part of the Indian classical canon (Bharata Natyam, Chhau, Kathak, Kathakali, Manipuri, Mohiniattam, Odissi, Sattriya and Yakshagana) trace their roots to religious practices (...) the Indian diaspora has led to the translocation of Hindu dances to Europe, North America and the world." whose theory and practice can be traced to the Sanskrit text Natya Shastra.

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Indian Museum, Kolkata

The Indian Museum in Kolkata, also referred to as the Imperial Museum at Calcutta in British India era texts, is the largest and oldest museum in India and has rare collections of antiques, armour and ornaments, fossils, skeletons, mummies, and Mughal paintings.

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Jayadeva

Jayadeva (b.), also known as Jaidev, was a Sanskrit poet during the 12th century.

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Jayadeva birth controversy

Until recently, the origins of the great twelfth-century poet Jayadeva had been somewhat obscure, with the two neighboring states of Odisha and Bengal in Eastern India staking a claim to Jayadeva's origins.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman.

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Kenduli Sasan

Kenduli Sasan in Khurda district is the birthplace of the Sanskrit lyricist, Jayadeva.

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Kolkata

Kolkata (also known as Calcutta, the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Krishna

Krishna (Kṛṣṇa) is a major deity in Hinduism.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States.

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National Museum, New Delhi

The National Museum in New Delhi, also known as the National Museum of India, is one of the largest museums in India.

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Odisha

Odisha (formerly Orissa) is one of the 29 states of India, located in eastern India.

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Odissi

Odissi (ଓଡ଼ିଶୀ Oḍiśī), also referred to as Orissi in older literature, is a major ancient Indian classical dance that originated in the Hindu temples of Odisha – an eastern coastal state of India.

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Radha

Radha (IAST), also called Radhika, Radharani, and Radhe, is a Hindu goddess popular in the Vaishnavism tradition.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.

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The Asiatic Society

The Asiatic Society was founded by civil servant Sir William Jones on 15 January 1784 in a meeting presided over by Sir William Jones, Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William at the Fort William in Calcutta, then capital of the British Raj, to enhance and further the cause of Oriental research.

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Vedic and Sanskrit literature

Vedic and Sanskrit literature comprises the spoken or sung literature of the Vedas from the early-to-mid 2nd to mid 1st millennium BCE, and continues with the oral tradition of the Sanskrit epics of Iron Age India; the golden age of Classical Sanskrit literature dates to Late Antiquity (roughly the 3rd to 8th centuries CE).

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Vrindavan

Vrindavan is a town in the Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

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William Jones (philologist)

Sir William Jones FRS FRSE (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was an Anglo-Welsh philologist, a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indian languages, which would later be known as Indo-European languages.

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Works of Jayadeva

Jayadeva was an 11th-century Sanskrit poet and lyricist from present-day India.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gita_Govinda

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