Haribhaktivilasa of Sanatana Gosvamin, Volume One

Sanatana Gosvamin's Haribhaktivilasa (ca. 1540) describes the normative ritual life of a Vai??ava devotee. As it is one of the first Sanskrit texts of Gau?iya Vai??ava tradition begun by Sri K???a Caitanya (1486-1533) it presents a fascinating meeting between this ecstatic new religious movement and older, Brahminical tradition.

On the basis of eleven manuscripts, this important text has now been for the first time been critically edited. In his extensive introduction, Mans Broo engages with many of the questions that have vexed earlier scholars of this text (such as who really was the author?) by exploring its extensive intertextualities.