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and Radha, or the reciprocal attraction between the divine goodnefs and the 

 human foul, are told at large in the tenth book of the Bba'gavat, and are the 

 fubjeclofa little PJior al Drama, entitled Gitagfrvinda: it was the work 

 of Jayade'va, whoflourifhed, it is faid, before Calidas, and was born, 

 as he tells us himfelf, in Cenduli, which many believe to be in Calinga - 3 

 but, fince there is a town of a fimilar name in Berdwan, the natives of it infift 

 that the fined: lyrick poet of India was their countryman, and celebrate in 

 honour of him an annual jubilee, palling a whole night in reprefenting his 

 drama, and in ringing his beautiful fongs. After having tranflated the Gita- 

 govinda word for word, I reduced my tranflation to the form, in which it 

 is now exhibited • omitting only thofr pafTages, which are too luxuriant 

 and too bold for an European tafte, and the prefatory ode 00 the ten in- 

 carnations of Vishnu, with which you have been prefented on another oc« 

 cafion : the phrafes in Italicks are the burdens of the feveral fongs ; and you 

 may be allured, that not a fingle image or idea has been added by the 

 xanflator. 



