Śrī Rādhāṣṭaka — Eight songs Glorifying Śrī Rādhā

Sri Radhastaka, eight verses glorifying Srimati Radharani specifically, mirrors the eight-verse structure of Siksastaka and Namastaka elsewhere in Gitavali, giving the book three matched sequences addressed respectively to Mahaprabhu's teaching, the holy name, and Radharani, each treated with the same formal seriousness. Its songs consistently pair praise of Radharani's beauty with real theological grounding rather than offering praise alone: she is placed beyond the Viraja river in the pure spiritual sky, described as foremost among the rasika heroines of Vraja whose love for Krishna defines the aesthetic and theological category of madhurya-rasa in Rupa Gosvami's classification of devotional emotion, and her own form is said to arise from mahabhava, the highest possible pitch of spiritual feeling. The section closes by making explicit what has been implicit throughout — that approaching Krishna without also approaching Radharani leaves devotion incomplete — consistent with the broader Gaudiya Vaishnava emphasis on service to Radharani as inseparable from service to Krishna Himself.