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Kartika Das was born in 1600,No information is available as to his family or residence. Rukmini Bibaha (literally, Rukmini’s marriage, published by Prachi, 1930), a kavya in ten cantos and Nabanuraga(literally, the advent of love, yet unpublished) are the two works ascribed to his authorship. The theme of the former is the marriage of Srikrishna with Princess Rukmini.

The story occurs in the Bhagavata, the Harivamsa and other Vaisnavite works. The style is mostly Puranic but in some passages, human form and beautiful nature are decribed in a simple and lucid diction. The salient point about this work is the poet’s choice of a theme of Krishna’s love with Svakiya Nayika (married wife) while the general trend,

then,among authors was the popular topic of Parakiya Premabhakti (devotional love with other’s wives).Secondly, Kartika Das has desisted from describing the details of conjugal union of the newly married couple obviously with an attitude to depict the cannonic love life of Srikrishna, king of Dwataka, which, too, had its own importance as a doctrine in Vaishnava Philosophy

Nabanuraga
Vaishnava
Rukmini Bibaha