Braj Bhasha
Krishna poetry language
Braj Bhasha is a language or dialect of Hindi spoken in the Braj region of northern India, centered around Mathura and Vrindavan—areas associated with the Hindu god Krishna.
It was the dominant literary language of Hindi poetry from roughly the 15th to 19th centuries, used by devotional poets like Surdas and Mirabai.
Today it functions primarily as a regional dialect, though it retains cultural prestige in religious and folk contexts: The bhajan was composed in Braj Bhasha.
India's official language
- dialectRegional language variety
- vernacularEveryday regional speech
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- phonologyScience of language sounds
morphology · lexicon · diglossia · register · prestige · archaism · honorifics · prosody
Hindi
India's official language
- dialectRegional language variety
- vernacularEveryday regional speech
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
phonology · morphology · lexicon · diglossia · register · prestige · archaism · honorifics · prosody · nasalization
pad
Cushioned writing surface
- RahimArabic masculine name
darshan
Viewing of the sacred
- HoliSpring festival of colors
Agra
North Indian heritage city
- Braj Poetrypad
- Hindi poetryRahim
- HindiDevanagari script, verb conjugation, tenses, pronouns, nouns
- Hindustani musicraga, dhrupad, tabla, sitar, lay
- Bhakti Poetrypad, devotional songs, mystical poetry, spiritual poetry
- Krishna Pilgrimage