ABHISĀRA

(Rādhā's) Going-forth (to visit Krishna)

The Abhisārikā heroine is one who goes from her home to visit her belovèd, careless of danger or shame. The Abhisārikā is a favourite subject of Pāharī painters (see Coomaraswamy, 'Journal of Indian Art, October, 1914). An English example in John Davidson's 'A Ballad of a Nun.'

[LIV]

5-8. 'Teeth of pearl, the double guard
To speech, whence music still is heard.'
Carew.

11, 12. See note to 1, 2.

VASANTA LILA

Dalliance in Spring

[LVI]

Cf. the extract from Kālī Krishna Dasa's Kāmini Kumāra, translated in Dinesh Chandra Sen's Bengali Language and Literature, p. 688.