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- 106 - separation and search for Krsna. They prayed for Krsna's return. Krana appeared and began his famous Rasa dance with the Gopis who were greatly delighted and stood holding one another by the hand. Then having stationed himself between every two of these damsels, Krsna, the Lord of all Yoga, commenced in that circle of the Gopis the festive dance known as Rasalil膩. 41 Then that ring of dancers was filled with the sounds of bracelets, bangles and the linkinis of the damsels. To an appropriate song, the Gopis gesticulate with their hands to express various sentiments." In the subsequent description we get the suggestion of Abhinaya. "With their measured steps, with the movements of their hands, with their smile, with the graceful and amorous contraction of their eyebrows, with their dancing bodies, their moving locks of hair covering their foreheads with drops of perspiration trickling down their face and with the knots of their hair loosened, Gopis began to sing. The music of their song filled the universe." Dr. Kapila Vatsyayana observes that the most direct descendants of the REsa dances described in the Puranas are the Rasa dances from Manipura. The Mah膩r膩sa in Manipur till today is danced to the verses of the Bhagavata. 42 The Visnu Purana, book 5, chapter 13 describes an
elaborate Rasa dance of Srikrana with Gopis and their imitation
and love of him.
moon,
Arsna observing the clear sky bright with the autumnal
and the air perfumed with the fragrance of the wild