Donakeli

[Narayanidd]

My dear vaisnavas,

 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

Can some please relate the Donakeli pastime? I have forgotten everything save the name.

 

Thank you. Hari Bol!

 

Your servant,

Narayani d.d.

[Guest guest]

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[Jagat]

Dana-keli. Rupa Goswami wrote Dana-keli-kaumudi, which I translated and published--I guess it must have been on VNN forums way back when.

 

[Jagat]

I forgot that I had posted this on my website. It still needs work, but here is a taste of Dana keli anyway.

 

http://www.granthamandira.org/jagat/articles/showarticle.php?id=80

[livingentity]

Sri Dana-keli Cintamani (along with many others) can be found online at this site:

 

Gaudiya Vaisnava Library

[Narayanidd]

Thank you very much for this link!! What a great resource!

 

YS,

Narayani d.d.

[livingentity]

for the opportunity to serve. This site is a wealth of Gaudiya Vaisnava books - some that are almost impossible to find in printed form are on there. I found it one day while searching for Hari Bhakti Vilasa (which is on there!!).

[Jagat]

That version of HBV contains only the 1st, 8th, 9th and parts of the 15th and 16th vilasas.

[livingentity]

last night when I was looking at it. Do you know anywhere to find the whole book - either online or in printed form? I would like to find it in printed form.

[Jagat]

Not in translated form. There have been several editions published over the years in Sanskrit with either Hindi or Bengali translations. The edition I have is by Haridas Shastri, with Hindi translation. This is the one I am working from to prepare the Gaudiya Grantha Mandir edition, but that will have no translation.

 

I am finding the HBV rather interesting from a textual point of view. Gopala Bhatta himself says in several places that he is basing his viewpoint on the Krama Dipika, an important Nimbarka sampradaya text. On the whole, however, HBV uses practically nothing from the South Indian Pancharatra tradition and far more from the Skanda, Padma, Purana, Vishnudharmottara, Naradiya and Vishnu Puranas, in approximately that order (though I will do a more accurate count when I am finished). The Bhagavata is also quoted extensively, but mostly in the 10th and 11th chapters, i.e., those not concerned with specifics of ritual, but of broadly based Vaishnava activities. These are the ones that would contain material most familiar to Gaudiya Vaishnavas, who would consider much of the rest of the book to be of somewhat arcane interest.

 

The Pancharatrika texts used--principally Gautamiya Tantra, Narada Pancharatra, Hayasirsha Pancharatra, Sanatkumara Kalpa (not Samhita), Krama Dipika--are not part of the South Indian Pancharatrika tradition, though they evidently share common features.

 

The third set of sources for HBV, used in far less amount, are the traditional Smriti Shastras.

 

Another interesting feature of HBV is its marginal importance for Gaudiya Vaishnavas. In many ways it and Krama Dipika (at least where Pancharatrika matters are concerned) have been superseded in our sampradaya by works like Radhakrishna Das's Sadhana Dipika, Dhyana Chandra's Paddhati, Siddha Krishna Das's Sadhanamrita-candrika and Gaura-govindarcana-paddhati, etc. Bhakti-candrika contains specifics of Gaura Puja. The relationship of current Gaudiya practices to HBV could be compared to the relationship of Goswami lila texts to the Bhagavata itself. They are starting points only.

 

An in-depth comparative study of these ritual texts is desirable. I would especially be interested in the possible link with the Nimbarka sampradaya, especially where the specific mantras (18-syllable and Kama-gayatri) are concerned. Mantra links are especially important where sampradayas are concerned and should be taken into consideration wherever diksha, etc., are discussed.