Jayadeva’s Gita-Govinda Against a Backdrop of Shri Radha-Shri Krishna Cults of Vrindavan

Abstract

This article seeks to establish the importance of Jayadeva’s Gita Govinda in the growth of mystical ideas surrounding the worship of Shri Radha and Shri Krishna in the medieval Braj region, with Vrindavan as the bull’s eye. It also highlights the importance that the Bhakti Movement gave to the emotion Preeti, love for the divine.