Viraha Bhakti

Contents Tables XV Illustrations XVI Maps XVII Preface XIX Transliteration XVIII Part One 1 General Introduction 3-46 Part Two 49 The Myths of Krsna and the Milkmaids in Northern literature (up to the eleventh century) 51-111 Part Three 117 Mayon: the god of the jasmine landscape (Krsnaism in cankam literature) 119-233 Part Four 239 Mayon mysticism: the Alavars 241-473 Part Five 481 The Bhagavata Purana 483-547 Part Six 553 Emotional Krsna bhakti: prolegomena to an evaluation 555-575 Appendices 585 I Harivamsa 63, 15-35 587 II Krsna's hallisaka in the Balacaritam 589 III The gopi story in the Brahma-and Visnu-Purana 592 IV The rasa dance 600 V Early cankam fragments 606 VI The ancient Pantiya kings and Netiyon 610 VII Extracts from the Cilappatikaram, Kalittokai and Akananuru 613 VIII Bullfight and Kuravai 617 IX Bull-catching and shouting dance among the Todas 629 X Aycciyarkuravai11] to14] 634 XI Evidence for the South Indian origin of the BhP 637 XII Parallel passages in the BhP and the Prabandham 647 Bibliographies 653 Abbreviation 655 Original source in Sanskrit, Prakrit and Apabhramsa 656 Original source in Tamil and Manipravala 659 Secondary sources: books and articles 662 Index 675