Talk:Raslila
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[edit]I've made some changes to this article today, the main two being:
- Working on the introduction as advised by David - I've tried describing it as a part of the traditional story of Krishna, which I felt was the most direct explanation without including any concepts which a general reader might not be familiar with. The term 'pastime', although making sense to someone knowledgeable, reads as too abstract a concept for a general reader in my opinion.
- The second major change was to remove the section regarding Imitation of the Rasa-Lila. The quote from Bhagavata Purana referred to the verse:
- "One who is not a great controller should never imitate the behavior of ruling personalities, even mentally. If out of foolishness an ordinary person does imitate such behavior, he will simply destroy himself, just as a person who is not Rudra would destroy himself if he tried to drink an ocean of poison." (10.33.30)
- As this verse does not directly reference the Rasa dance or Rasa-lila, then we cannot use it to support a point of view that Rasa-lila should not be imitated. This would then count as original research. What we could do is explain the viewpoints different traditions within Vaishnavism regarding the Rasa-lila, and how and when they believe it should be performed (or not). That would ideally have to be backed up by a number of references from different, or more general backgrounds, especially because it is somewhat of a controversial subject matter in some quarters.
The other changes were mostly cosmetic, or minor alteration to links & formatting etc... Please feel free to agree/disagree & discuss any of the above. Also, do you have any ideas on how we might be able to expand further with this article generally? Best wishes, Gouranga(UK) (talk) 11:26, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Error
[edit]The etymology provided by this article is incorrect. "Rasa" (aesthetics) is a different word in Sanskrit than "rāsa" (tumult). A better translation would be "tumultuous dance."
On rāsa see Monier-Williams dictionary: https://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/cgi-bin/monier/serveimg.pl?file=/scans/MWScan/MWScanjpg/mw0879-rAla.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.49.100.191 (talk) 17:47, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
Dance form
[edit]It is my understanding that the traditional classical Indian dance form that most closely depicts the Rasa lila is the Orissi (Odissi) dance, not the Manipuri dance. Can someone verify this?--Cminard (talk) 13:22, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
lila
[edit]Lila means pastime Stjohn1970 (talk) 16:26, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
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