navas, Gobind taking
the drum plays ta-ta-tum tum, Adwaita lightly clashes the cymbals.
Hari D??s begins the song, Srib??s keeps time, Gorang dances at the
k?®rtan celebration. On all sides the Vaish.navas crowding echo "Hari
bol," to-morrow will be the great feast. To-day consecrate the drum
and hang it up, joyfully saith Bansi sound victory! victory!!
Having thus concluded the initiatory ceremonies in the lst Pallab, the
2nd Pallab begins the real "K?®rtan." It contains 26 hymns by masters
who are mostly of comparatively recent date. Of the old masters Gobind
D??s and Cha.n.di D??s alone appear in this Pallab. We now commence the
long and minutely described series of emotions and flirtations (if so
lowly a word may be used) between R??dh?? and K.rish.na, and this Pallab
and in fact the whole of the first S??kh?? is on that phase called
"p?»rbar??ga" or first symptoms of love. In No. 2, Cha.n.di D??s
represents two of R??dh??'s Sakhis, or girl-friends, whispering together
as they watch her from a distance (the punctuation {i.
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