Discussing women’s sexual desire has long been perceived as a taboo in the East and the West as well. Undeniably, there is a stigma attached to it which, unfortunately, continues even today. However, surprisingly enough, the ancient and the medieval Indians had always been open to female sexuality before their philogynist culture was obliterated and replaced by the ‘zenana culture’ of the Mughals and the ‘Victorian morality’ of the British Raj. Even in the Medieval Era, which is often labelled as conservative and orthodox, people accepted female desire as a biological reality. Composed in twelve cantos, Jayadeva’s magnum opus, Gītagovinda, celebrates sexuality and candidly depicts female orgasm with sheer poetic acumen. Jayadeva has not only eradicated the stigma attached to it, but he has also delineated it from the aesthetical perspectives of the Sanātana Dharma which makes it “a unique work in Indian literature and a source of religious inspiration in both medieval and contemporary Vaisnavism” (Miller, 1984). In this paper endeavours to analyze, assemble, and demonstrate how the poet has celebrated female psyche, female sexuality, and female orgasm in the 12 Century CE. The paper deals with the primary aspects of the book which are related to female mind and sexuality. Library method of research has been carried out to substantiate the claims that this research paper makes. As the book is originally composed in Sanskrit, the research paper contains many Indic names and words which are written in accordance with the International Alphabet for Sanskrit Translitearation (IAST) method.

中文翻译：

---

庆祝中世纪的女性欲望：Jayadeva 的 G?tagovinda 情色诗句的诠释

长期以来，讨论女性的性欲在东方和西方也被视为禁忌。不可否认，它带有一种耻辱感，不幸的是，这种耻辱感一直延续到今天。然而，令人惊讶的是，在古代和中世纪的印度人的语言主义文化被莫卧儿人的“泽纳文化”和英国拉吉的“维多利亚时代的道德”所取代之前，他们一直对女性性行为持开放态度。即使在通常被贴上保守和正统标签的中世纪时代，人们也将女性欲望视为一种生物学现实。Jayadeva 的代表作 Gītagovinda 由 12 个篇章组成，颂扬性欲，并以纯粹的诗意敏锐度坦率地描绘女性的性高潮。Jayadeva 不仅根除了它的污名，但他也从 Sanātana Dharma 的美学角度对其进行了描绘，这使其成为“印度文学中的独特作品，并且是中世纪和当代外士纳瓦主义的宗教灵感来源”（Miller，1984）。本文力图分析、整理和展示这位诗人如何颂扬公元 12 世纪的女性心理、女性性欲和女性性高潮。该论文涉及这本书与女性思想和性行为相关的主要方面。已进行图书馆研究方法以证实本研究论文提出的主张。由于这本书最初是用梵文撰写的，研究论文中包含许多印度语名称和单词，这些名称和单词是按照国际梵文音译（IAST）方法编写的。