Caitanya Caritamrta of Krsnadasa Kaviraja: A Translation and Commentary [Hardcover]

Tony K. Stewart (Editor), Edward C. Dimock Jr. (Translator)

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Hardcover: 1207 pages
Publisher: Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies (Sep 30 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0674002857
ISBN-13: 978-0674002852
Product Dimensions: 26.2 x 18.5 x 7.1 cm
Shipping Weight: 2.4 Kg

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The Caitanya Caritamrta is an early-seventeenth-century Bengali and Sanskrit biography of the great saint and Vaisnava leader Caitanya (1486–1533 c.e.), by the poet and scholar Krsnadasa, who has been given by Bengali tradition the title Kaviraja—"Prince of Poets." The text is of interest to theologians (Caitanya was, in Krsnadasa's view, an androgyne of Krsna and Radha), philosophers (his theory was that aesthetic and religious experience are much the same in kind), historians of religion (the movement that Caitanya inspired has encompassed the great part of the eastern Indian subcontinent, and Krsnadasa has some interesting observations on his own times), and appreciators of literature (in Krsnadasa's very long poem are embedded some lyric gems).

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Edward C. Dimock, Jr., is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago.

Tony K. Stewart is Associate Professor of South Asian Religions at North Carolina State University and Director of the North Carolina Center for South Asia Studies.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Scholarly Translation of a Seminal Religious Text, Dec 14 2000

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Dimock and Stewart's translation of the Caitanya Caritamrta (The Nectar of the Acts of Caitanya) is a readable and extremely well-researched edition of the biography of Sri Caitanya, a 16th century Bengali ascetic who is believed by Gaudiya Vaisnavas to have been the androgynous dual incarnation of Krsna and Radha. The lengthy introduction and notes on translation provide readers unfamiliar with the tradition with all the background they need to appreciate the layers of meaning hidden in the text and the narrative strategies of Krsnadasa that come across so well in this translation. For more background, read Dimock's 1966 book, "The Place of the Hidden Moon". a true classic in the literature of South Asian studies. Highly recommended.

5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary!, Sep 22 2007

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This book is extraordinary. The multiple prefaces and introductions alone are worthy of five stars. I find the translations of the text itself to be well-balanced.

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