Āścarya-rāsa-prabandha

Author: Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī

"The wondrous composition on the rāsa" — Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī's poem in 284 verses on the rāsa dance of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa on the autumn nights of Vṛndāvana: the call of the flute, the gopīs' coming, Kṛṣṇa's dispute with them, his vanishing, the search, his return, the dance and the water play. Nearly all of it is in the rhyming pajjhaṭikā metre, like a song.