The Music of Hindostan c8.s1.11

c8.s1.11

But music in its highest, most emblematic form moves to the sound of Kṛṣṇa’s flute (muralī) and dances to the pulsations of Shiva’s drum (ḍamaru).⁴ With Shiva, who enters the celestial hierarchy in the Brāhmaṇas and wrests the supremacy from Indra and Brahmā, enters too the eternal becoming and ceasing to be of evolution, and to the woven rhythms of his dance the whole creation moves. And in the Rāmāyaṇa it is Kṛṣṇa sporting with his Gopīs ‘qui fait le monde à la ronde’.