3 Translated by Vinod Menon of Chicago; personal communication.
4 “Thaaye Yas ́oda ̄” is a very popular song which is performed in many classical Bha ̄rata
Natyam recitals.
5 In his poem “Tiruviruttam,” Namma ̄l
̄
va ̄r speaks in the voice of the (male) “hero” of
classical Tamil poems.
6 Hawley, in a personal communication, writes that the saint is identified either as “Jı ̄va
or as Rupa Goswa ̄min, depending on the version. The earliest source for this story is
the Bhaktirasabodhini commentary of Priyadas (1712 ce) on the Bhaktamal of
Nabhaji. It is tika kavitta 514, which appears on p. 721 of the frequently consulted
edition entitled “Sribhaktamal,” for which there is a commentary by Sı ̄ta ̄ramsaran
Bhagavanprasad Rupkala (Lucknow: Tejkumar Press, 1969: apparently first
published by Naval Kishore Press, 1914).
7 Personal Interview with Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati in Oct. 1998; interview with
Professors Yudit Greenberg, Kathleen Erndl, and myself.
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