34 examples of priya in sentences

After his death Priya made himself so useful to the widow that she invited him to live in her house and trusted him implicitly.

Nagendra reluctantly applied to Priya for a refund of the loan, producing Samarendra's note of hand, which was about a year overdue.

After examining it, Priya said: "The matter is simple enough.

"Very well," rejoined Priya.

" "Oh, you doubt my word," sneered Priya, "but I don't blame you; such is the way of the world.

He handed the bond to Priya and asked him to endorse the conditions agreed on.

While doing so Priya looked up.

" "Just as you like," answered Nagendra indifferently; and after reading the endorsement through very carefully he took the note of hand away without saluting Priya.

Not hearing from him when the note matured, Nagendra called at his sister's house and pressed Priya, whom he found there, for payment of the Rs. 2,000 and interest.

Priya gazed at him with feigned astonishment "What loan are you talking about?"

"Now don't descend to personalities," rejoined Priya.

All doubt vanished in the Sub Judge's mind when the pleader handed him a document bearing the seal of the Chief Court of the Punjab, certifying that Priya had been in attendance on that day.

i The Triumph of Radha ii The Gita Govinda iii Later Poetry iv The Rasika Priya VI THE KRISHNA OF PAINTING NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX PLATES AND COMMENTARY SOURCES

[Footnote 63: Note 20.] (iv) The Rasika Priya

It was necessary to discuss how best to treat each nayika and nayaka not only in Sanskrit but in Hindi poetry also, and to meet this situation Keshav Das, the poet of Orchha in Bundelkhand, produced in 1591 his Rasika Priya.

And in the Rasika Priya it is once again his courtly aura which determines his new role.

And although exact data are wanting, such circumstances may well explain another document of Krishna, the first illustrated version of Keshav Das's Rasika Priya.

It is significant that at Bikaner their leader was a Muslim, Ruknuddin, and that his chief work was a series of pictures illustrating the Rasika Priya.

Keshav Das's Rasika Priya achieved the greatest popularity at his courtits blend of reverent devotion and ecstatic passion fulfilling some of the deepest Rajput needs.

Although one copy of the Rasika Priya and one of the Bhagavata Purana were executed at both these centres, their chief subjects were the ragas and raginis (the thirty-six modes of Indian music) nayakas and nayikas (the ideal lovers) and barahmasas (the twelve months) while in the case of Malwa, there was the added theme of Sanskrit love-poetry.

The Rasika Priya and the Bhagavata Purana, the texts so greatly favoured at Udaipur, were discarded and in their place Basohli artists produced a series of isolated scenes from Krishna's lifethe child Krishna stealing butter, Krishna the gallant robbing the cowgirls or exacting toll, Krishna extinguishing the forest-fire, Krishna the violent lover devouring Radha with hungry eyes.

None the less, in producing their illustrations, the artists made Krishna the central figure and we can only conclude that eschewing the obvious Rasika Priya, Raja Kirpal Pal had directed his artists to do for Sanskrit what Keshav Das had done for Hindi poetryto celebrate Krishna as the most varied and skilled of lovers and as a corollary show him in a whole variety of romantic and poetic situations.

For the originals of certain poems in the Rasika Priya and their literal translation, see Coomaraswamy, 'The Eight Nayikas.' Note 22, p. 104.

[Illustration] PLATE 28 Krishna awaiting Radha Illustration to the Rasika Priya of Keshav Das Bundi (Rajasthan), c. 1700 National Museum, New Delhi Following the Sanskrit practice of discussing poetic taste, Keshav Das produced in 1592 a Hindi manual of poetics.

Although the Rasika Priya of Keshav Das was the manual of poetry most frequently illustrated by Indian artists, an earlier Sanskrit treatise, the Rasamanjari of Bhanu Datta, excited a particular raja's interest and resulted in the production at Basohli of a vividly illustrated text.

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