More Songs

This small collection is genuinely eclectic, reaching well beyond the Gaudiya Vaishnava padavali tradition that makes up most of this site. Alongside songs from familiar names here — Srila Locana Dasa Thakura, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, Srila Narottama Dasa Thakura — it holds the Mukunda-mala-stotra, attributed to Kulasekhara Alvar, a poet-king of the quite separate Sri Vaishnava tradition of South India; the Nityanandastakam of Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati, another major Gaudiya Sanskrit author; the Govindam prayers that Lord Brahma offers in the fifth chapter of the Brahma-samhita; Bhaja Govindam, the celebrated Sanskrit hymn on the futility of worldly attachment traditionally attributed to Adi Sankaracarya, whose non-Vaishnava origin recurs elsewhere on this site as well; and Narayana-kavacam, a protective hymn from the Srimad Bhagavatam attributed to Srila Vyasadeva.