Synaesthesia in Poetry and Ritual of the Pustimarga: Journal of Vaishnava Studies

Abstract

The religious movements devoted to Krsna that burgeoned in northern India during the 16th century wereled by brahmins who practiced a highly ritualiswd workship of temple images. They derived their notion of the divine primarily from the Bhagavada-purana, their ritual from Pancaratra texts, and their theology from Vedanata, Tantra and classical aesthetic theory, as expounded in Bharata's Natyasastra.