Eight Prayers To Krishna’s Names.
Srila Rupa Goswami’s Namastakam With the Stava-mala-bhusana commentary of Srila Baladev Vidyabhushan Srl-namastakam is a bouquet of eight verses offered by Srila Rupa Goswami in praise of the transcendental names of Lord Krishna. One special quality of these prayers is that Srila Rupa Goswami has composed each verse in a different meter. Meters in Sanskrit usually have feminine names, and thus he has surrounded Krishna’s holy names with eight beautiful ladies in the form of eight beautiful meters Just as Krishna is surrounded by eight principal gopis. There is some question about the authorship of the Stava-mala-bhusana commentary. Some suggest that it was written by Srila Jiva Goswami and others say it was written by Srila Baladev Vidyabhushan. Haridas Das in his Gaudiya Vaisnava Abhidhana gives some reason why the confusion may have arisen. He says that Srila Jiva Goswami took many of the loose prayers of Srila Rupa Goswami and compiled them into the volume known as Stava-mala, and that later Srila Baladev Vidyabhushan wrote the Stava-mala-bhusana commentary on the book.
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