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    Kavi Jayadev was a 12th century Sanskrit poet born in India who is most famous for his epic poem Gita Govinda about the love between Krishna and Radha. This important text helped spread the Bhakti movement in Hinduism. Little is known about Jayadev's life except that he was a wandering poet and Hindu ascetic celebrated for his poetry. His works are central to Odissi music in Odisha and two of his hymns are included in the Sikh scripture Guru Granth Sahib.

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    Kavi Jayadev was a 12th century Sanskrit poet born in India who is most famous for his epic poem Gita Govinda about the love between Krishna and Radha. This important text helped spread the Bhakti movement in Hinduism. Little is known about Jayadev's life except that he was a wandering poet and Hindu ascetic celebrated for his poetry. His works are central to Odissi music in Odisha and two of his hymns are included in the Sikh scripture Guru Granth Sahib.

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    Kavi Jayadev was a 12th century Sanskrit poet born in India who is most famous for his epic poem Gita Govinda about the love between Krishna and Radha. This important text helped spread the Bhakti movement in Hinduism. Little is known about Jayadev's life except that he was a wandering poet and Hindu ascetic celebrated for his poetry. His works are central to Odissi music in Odisha and two of his hymns are included in the Sikh scripture Guru Granth Sahib.

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    Kavi Jayadev was a 12th century Sanskrit poet born in India who is most famous for his epic poem Gita Govinda about the love between Krishna and Radha. This important text helped spread the Bhakti movement in Hinduism. Little is known about Jayadev's life except that he was a wandering poet and Hindu ascetic celebrated for his poetry. His works are central to Odissi music in Odisha and two of his hymns are included in the Sikh scripture Guru Granth Sahib.

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    Kavi Jayadev

    By: Tanisha Das


    Kavi Jayadev was a Sanskrit poet born in
    1170 CE. He is most known for his epic
    Gita Govinda which tells concentrates on
    Lord Krishna’s love with the gopi Radha
    in the rite of spring. This poem, which
    presents the view that Radha is greater
    than Krishna, is considered an important
    text in the Bhakti movement of
    Hinduism. Little is known of his life,
    except that he was a loner poet and a
    Hindu mendicant celebrated for his
    poetic genius in eastern India. Jayadeva's
    ashtapadis are central to the repertoire
    of Odissi music, the traditional classical
    music of the state of Odisha. Jayadeva is
    the earliest dated author of hymns that
    are included the Guru Granth Sahib, the
    primary scripture of Sikhism – a religion
    founded in the Indian subcontinent
    centuries after his death
    Birth and Life
    A Brahmin by birth, the date and place of
    Jayadeva's birth are uncertain (see
    Jayadeva birth controversy). The
    Gitagovinda suggests that he was born in
    the "Kindubilva" village: scholars of
    Odisha, Bengal and Mithila have
    variously identified this place with a
    present-day village in their own region,
    including Kenduli Sasan near Puri in
    Odisha, Jaydev Kenduli in Birbhum
    district, and or the village of Kenduli
    near Jhanjharpur in Mithila (Bihar).
    Recent studies show scholars still
    disagree on the issue. Jayadeva, a
    wanderer, probably visited Puri at some
    point and there, according to tradition, he
    married a dancer named Padmavati
    though that is not supported by early
    commentators and modern scholars.
    Inscriptions at Lingaraj temple, and the
    more recently discovered Madhukeswar
    temple and Simhachal temple that were
    read and interpreted by Satyanarayana
    Rajguru have shed some light on
    Jayadeva's early life. These inscriptions
    narrate how Jayadeva had been a member
    of the teaching faculty of the school at
    Kurmapataka. He might have studied at
    Kurmapataka as well. It must have been
    right after his childhood education in
    Kenduli Sasan that he left for
    Kurmapataka and gained experience in
    composing poetry, music and dancing.
    Literature Works
    A few poems of Jayadeva written in
    archaic Odia have been published by the
    Directorate of Culture, Odisha. They
    describe the romance of Radha-Krishna
    and contain ideas very similar to those
    used in the Gita Govinda. Jayadeva is
    widely considered as one of the earliest
    musicians of Odissi music. Every night
    during the Badasinghara or the last ritual
    of the Jagannatha temple of Puri, the
    Gitagovinda of Jayadeva is sung, set to
    traditional Odissi ragas & talas. This
    tradition has continued unbroken since
    the time of Jayadeva, who himself used
    to sing in the temple. After the time of
    the poet, the singing of the Gitagovinda
    according to the authentic Odissi ragas &
    talas was instated as a mandatory sevā at
    the temple, to be performed by the
    Maharis or Devadasis, systematically
    recorded in inscriptions, the Mādalā
    Pānji and other official documents that
    describe the functioning of the temple.
    To this date, the Jagannatha temple
    remains the fountainhead of Odissi music
    and the most ancient & authentic
    compositions (including a few archaic
    Odia Chhandas and jananas by Jayadeva
    himself) survive in the temple tradition,
    although the Devadasis are no more
    found owing to their systematic
    eradication by the British government.
    Two hymns of Jayadeva, have been
    incorporated in the Guru Granth Sahib,
    the holy book of the Sikh religion.

    The hymns are written in a mixture of


    Sanskrit and eastern Apabhramsha. There
    are records narrating how Jayadeva's
    work had a profound influence on Guru
    Nanak during his visit to Puri.

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