Padyāvalī
The anthology compiled by Rūpa Gosvāmī: 388 verses on Kṛṣṇa drawn from some hundred and fifty poets — from Amaru and Bāṇa to Śrī Caitanya, Mādhavendra Purī and Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya. Fewer than forty are the compiler's own, and he says so in the first verse: the book is gathered, not composed. The order is not a heap: first the glory of Kṛṣṇa, the glory of the Name and kīrtana; then the devotees, their humility, steadiness and longing; then Mathurā and Vṛndā's forest, the infancy, the butter, the flute; then a long series of sections on the states of the heroine as the science of rasa distinguishes them — she who has adorned the bed, she who waited in vain, she who found him out, she in the pride of love, she who repents the quarrel; then the rāsa, the play in the water and in the boat; and at last the separation after the departure for Mathurā, the messages to Dvārakā and the meeting at Kurukṣetra. Every verse carries its poet's name, and that attribution is part of the book: the anthology remembers who spoke.
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