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Padavali (Mirabai's songs)

मीराँबाई की पदावली

Mirabai y Girdharji en la Prem Ambodh Pothi
byMirabai

Short songs, composed to be sung to a raga, ending with the signature "Mira ke prabhu Giridhar Nagar" ("Mira's lord is the gallant Giridhar"). They speak of Krishna as a husband chosen against the family's will, of waiting and separation, of the yogi Krishna who seduces and leaves, of mockery and persecution, of the joy of meeting. The language mixes Rajasthani and Braj Bhasha; there is also a Gujarati corpus. Musical tradition also attributes to her a variant of raga Malhar, called "Mira ki Malhar". It is the work for which she is known throughout India.

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Editions and translations · 8

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Authorship note

A collection of the padas tradition attributes to Mirabai, assembled in modern editions from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century manuscripts and oral tradition. The reference edition, Parashuram Chaturvedi's (1932), gathers some two hundred poems but does not declare its manuscripts; Hawley found only two poems attributed to Mira in copies earlier than the eighteenth century. Individual authorship is therefore uncertain.

Editions and translations

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English

  • Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems — Mirabai

    Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems

    Beacon Press, 2004

    Translation: Robert Bly y Jane Hirshfield

    ISBN 9780807063866

    Versiones libres; epílogo de J. S. Hawley.

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  • The Devotional Poems of Mīrābāī

    Motilal Banarsidass, 1998

    Translation: A. J. Alston

    ISBN 9788120804425

    1.ª ed. 1980; traduce más de doscientos padas sobre el texto de Chaturvedi.

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  • For Love of the Dark One: Songs of Mirabai — Mirabai

    For Love of the Dark One: Songs of Mirabai

    Hohm Press, 1998

    Translation: Andrew Schelling

    ISBN 9780934252843

    Edición revisada.

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  • In the Dark of the Heart: Songs of Meera — Mirabai

    In the Dark of the Heart: Songs of Meera

    HarperCollins, 1994

    Translation: Shama Futehally

    ISBN 9780060628819

    Prólogo de M. S. Subbulakshmi.

  • For Love of the Dark One: Songs of Mirabai

    Shambhala Publications, 1993

    Translation: Andrew Schelling

    ISBN 9780877738725

  • Songs of the Saints of India — Mirabai

    Songs of the Saints of India

    Oxford University Press, 1988

    Translation: John Stratton Hawley y Mark Juergensmeyer

    ISBN 9780195052213

    Antología con una sección dedicada a Mirabai.

  • Devotional Poems of Mirabai

    Asian Humanities Press, 1983

    Translation: A. J. Alston

    ISBN 9780895816115

    Edición estadounidense.

हिन्दी

  • Mīrāṃbāī kī padāvalī

    Hindī Sāhitya Sammelan, 1932

    Ed. de Parashuram Chaturvedi; reediciones en 1947 y 1966. Sin ISBN.

Other works by Mirabai

Sources

  • Caturvedī, Paraśurām (ed.). Mīrāṃbāī kī padāvalī. Prayāg: Hindī Sāhitya Sammelan, 1932 (ediciones posteriores de 1947 y 1966).

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