- Title Pages
- Tables
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation
- Introduction
- Introduction to History
- 1 Situating the Swaminarayan Tradition in the Historiography of Modern Hindu Reform
- 2 Sahajanand Swami’s Language and Communication
- 3 Gujarati Socio-religious Context of Swaminarayan Devotion and Doctrine
- 4 Swaminarayan and British Contacts in Gujarat in the 1820s
- 5 The Swaminarayan Ideology and Kolis in Gujarat
- 6 Sahajanand Swami’s Approach to Caste
- Introduction to Theology and Literature
- 7 The Swaminarayan Commentarial Tradition
- 8 Akshara and Its Four Forms in Swaminarayan’s Doctrine
- 9 Swaminarayan’s <i>Brahmajnana</i> as Aksarabrahma-Parabrahma-Darsanam
- 10 Multivalent Krishna-Bhakti in Premanand’s Poetry
- 11 Brahmanand and His Innovations in the Barahmasa Genre
- Introduction to the Arts and Architecture
- 12 Early Swaminarayan Iconography and Its Relationship to Vaishnavism
- 13 Swaminarayan Temple Building
- 14 The Nagara Tradition of Temple Architecture and ‘Truth to Shastra’
- Introduction to Transnational Networks
- 15 Development of Swaminarayan Hinduism in Uganda and the Kampala Temple
- 16 Transnational Growth of BAPS in East Africa
- 17 Terrorism and Interfaith Relations at Swaminarayan Akshardham in Gandhinagar
- 18 Construction of the BAPS Swaminarayan Temple in Chino Hills, California
- 19 Thinking Through Akshardham and the Making of the Swaminarayan Self
- 20 Swaminarayan (BAPS) Identity Formation in Virtual Transnationalism
- About the Editors and Contributors
- Index
Multivalent Krishna-Bhakti in Premanand’s Poetry
Multivalent Krishna-Bhakti in Premanand’s Poetry
- Chapter:
- (p.191) 10 Multivalent Krishna-Bhakti in Premanand’s Poetry
- Source:
- Swaminarayan Hinduism
- Author(s):
Yogi Trivedi
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
By the end of the seventeenth century, Krishna-bhakti or Krishna devotion had been carefully claimed and assumed by the four Vaishanav sampradays in the north. A new surge rippled the bhakti waters of the Swaminarayan Sampraday in Saurashtra and Gujarat at the dawn of the nineteenth century. This chapter explores the shifting metaphysical understanding of Krishna within this new Vaishnav sampraday through its significant and celebrated poetry corpus. This close reading and detailed survey of Premanand’s (1789–1855) poetry suggests that there was a conscious theological act to centralize and often replace Krishna during certain liturgy, festivals, and performancesAccording to Premanand, there was a specific theological strategy involved in appropriating one deity over the other in specific instances. This conscious act of poetic positioning played a critical role in developing the community’s theological and social identity during its formative yearsThis study raises questions about this new community’s relationship with the earlier four Vaishnav communities.
Keywords: raga, music, sampraday, Vallabh, Krishna-bhakti, Premanand, Vaishnav sampradays, Saurashtra, Gujarat
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- Title Pages
- Tables
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation
- Introduction
- Introduction to History
- 1 Situating the Swaminarayan Tradition in the Historiography of Modern Hindu Reform
- 2 Sahajanand Swami’s Language and Communication
- 3 Gujarati Socio-religious Context of Swaminarayan Devotion and Doctrine
- 4 Swaminarayan and British Contacts in Gujarat in the 1820s
- 5 The Swaminarayan Ideology and Kolis in Gujarat
- 6 Sahajanand Swami’s Approach to Caste
- Introduction to Theology and Literature
- 7 The Swaminarayan Commentarial Tradition
- 8 Akshara and Its Four Forms in Swaminarayan’s Doctrine
- 9 Swaminarayan’s <i>Brahmajnana</i> as Aksarabrahma-Parabrahma-Darsanam
- 10 Multivalent Krishna-Bhakti in Premanand’s Poetry
- 11 Brahmanand and His Innovations in the Barahmasa Genre
- Introduction to the Arts and Architecture
- 12 Early Swaminarayan Iconography and Its Relationship to Vaishnavism
- 13 Swaminarayan Temple Building
- 14 The Nagara Tradition of Temple Architecture and ‘Truth to Shastra’
- Introduction to Transnational Networks
- 15 Development of Swaminarayan Hinduism in Uganda and the Kampala Temple
- 16 Transnational Growth of BAPS in East Africa
- 17 Terrorism and Interfaith Relations at Swaminarayan Akshardham in Gandhinagar
- 18 Construction of the BAPS Swaminarayan Temple in Chino Hills, California
- 19 Thinking Through Akshardham and the Making of the Swaminarayan Self
- 20 Swaminarayan (BAPS) Identity Formation in Virtual Transnationalism
- About the Editors and Contributors
- Index
