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Evening Blossoms The Temple Tradition of Sanjh\u012b in Vrndavana<\/h3>\n

EVENING BLOSSOMS:\u00a0<\/strong>THE TEMPLE TRADITION OF SA\u00d1JH\u012a IN V\u1e5aNDAVANA
\nASIMAKRISHNA DASA<\/strong>
\n1996, 63pp., col. and b&w ills., notes, bibl., ISBN: 91-207-1645-0, Rs. 750(HB)
\n Book Review – Article published in Newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The temple tradition of S\u0101\u00f1jh\u012b in Vrndavana describes the transformation of a folk tradition. S\u0101\u00f1jh\u012b was originally a ritual worship undertaken by unmarried girls throughout northern India to obtain a suitable husband. It became a temple tradition in the seventeenth century when the devotional bhakti movement linked it to the games played by R\u0101dh\u0101 and K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u00a0 as children in Vraja, the cowherd camp where God was pleased to reside as \u015ar\u012b K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a in the previous era. The devotional verses of the next two centuries describe these games and evoke S\u0101\u00f1jh\u012b as a ritual design made with forest flowers in the autumn, after the rains. Thus, R\u0101dh\u0101, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a’s \u0101hl\u0101din\u012b \u015bakti or joygoing potency, who is also prak\u1e5bti (nature), is engaged in her own beautification.<\/p>\n