ABSTRACT
Bha~a that describe the love-play of Radha and ~I)a. These 'amatory' poems form the bulk of the transmitted works of Vyas and have a subsection consisting of 71 poems that is called 'The Series on (Radha's) Wounded Pride' or Mlin 16 s.ri1khala, which I have translated elsewhere (Pauwels 1994b, 340-537). Vyas also composed poetry of a didactic tone, more reminiscent of that of the Sants, the devotional singers who expressed their vision of a god without attributes. Moreover, like the Sants but unlike the other two rasikas, Vyas also composed gnomic distichs (Doh as) often called 'testimonies' (siikhls). These poems survive in manuscript compilations called Vyas-va{1lor 'Sacred Utterance of Vyas', and in the form of scattered verses included in more general anthologies. The number of padas in anthologies ofVyas's work varies from 550 to 800, that of the sakhls from 84 to 150. Even according to the more conservative estimates, Vyas was prolific, his vernacular oeuvre easily eclipsing that of the other two poets of the rasik-trayl(111 poems are ascribed to Hariva'!lS and 128 to Haridas).
