ABSTRACT
Krishna the prince and his consort Rukmini are relegated to the background and Krishna the cowherd lover brought sharply to the fore. Krishna is no longer regarded as having been born solely to kill a tyrant and rid the world of demons. Krishna himself was God and since he had shown divine love in passionately possessing the cowgirls, he was best adored by recalling these very encounters. Krishna the prince and his consort Rukmini are relegated to the background and Krishna the cowherd lover brought sharply to the fore. Krishna, being God, had been beyond morals and hence had practised conduct which, if indulged in by men, might well have been wrong. When Krishna is about to leave for Mathura, it is Radha who heads the cowgirls and strives to detain him. Krishna’s flute was the call of God which caused the souls of men, the cowgirls, to forsake their worldly attachments and rush to love him.
