Mirabai - Krishna P. Bahadur (essay date 1998)

Krishna P. Bahadur (essay date 1998)

SOURCE: Bahadur, Krishna P. “What Mira Wrote About.” In Mīrā Bāī and Her Padas, pp. 25-9. New Delhi, India: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 1998.

[In the following essay, Bahadur provides an overview of the descriptive language and themes of Mirabai's padas and suggests that they are strongly rooted in an oral tradition.]

More than four hundred years ago, God sent on earth a puppet of his love. She came immersed in the love of God, held fast in his embrace and merged with his form, uniting her heart with the jingle of ankle-bell, pouring out her soul in the notes of his flute, held spellbound by his yellow garment of silk and his soft smiles, laying open her heart to him as though a carpet for his feet to tread on;—thus that artless yoginī, ankle-bells on her feet and cymbals in her hands, danced away and sang on, intoxicated with the ecstasy of...

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