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Source: Singhi Jain Series: Ratnaprabha-suri’s Kuvalayamala-katha (history)Peacock feathers were part of the twenty-four undertakings connected to marriage in ancient India, according to Uddyotanasūri in his 8th-century Kuvalayamālā (a Prakrit Campū, similar to Kāvya poetry).—The Kuvalayamala (779 A.D.) is full of cultural material which gains in value because of the firm date of its composition. [...] Page 170.21 f.: Twenty-four items are mentioned in connection with the marriage of Kuvalayamālā, [for instance, making beautiful fly-whisks and bundles of peacock feathers], [...].
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Garga Samhita (English) (by Danavir Goswami)
Verse 1.12.13 < [Chapter 12 - Description of Śrī Nanda’s Festival]
Verses 2.10.18-22 < [Chapter 10 - Description of Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s Herding the Cows]
Verse 4.1.2 < [Chapter 1 - The Story of the Personified Vedas]
Hari-bhakti-kalpa-latikā (by Sarasvati Thkura)
Text 7 < [Second Stabaka]
Sahitya-kaumudi by Baladeva Vidyabhushana (by Gaurapada Dāsa)
Text 9.42 [sarvatobhadra] < [Chapter 9 - Ornaments of Sound]
Text 9.36 < [Chapter 9 - Ornaments of Sound]
Text 9.41 [snake diagram] < [Chapter 9 - Ornaments of Sound]
Chaitanya Bhagavata (by Bhumipati Dāsa)
Verse 3.7.84 < [Chapter 7 - Pastimes in Śrī Gadādhara’s Garden]
Verse 2.273 < [Chapter 2 - The Lord’s Manifestation at the House of Śrīvāsa and the Inauguration of Saṅkīrtana]
Verse 2.7.62 < [Chapter 7 - The Meeting of Gadādhara and Puṇḍarīka]
Srila Gurudeva (The Supreme Treasure) (by Swami Bhaktivedanta Madhava Maharaja)
Madhumaṅgala Exchanges Clothes with Kṛṣṇa < [Chapter 2.2 - Śrīman Mahāprabhu’s Greatest Donation]
Rādhe Śyāma Śyāmā Śyāma < [Chapter 1.4 - Life in the Maṭha]
Every Soul has a Particular Rasa < [Chapter 2.2 - Śrīman Mahāprabhu’s Greatest Donation]