Verse 20

¹⁵Mrdangas, conches and kettledrums, vinas, panavas and gomukhas, dhundhuris, anakas, bells and the rest, and the dundubhis as well, all sounded together. ¹⁶The Kuru women climbed to the tops of the palaces to see him, and rained flowers upon Krsna, their glances full of love and shyness and smiling. ¹⁷Gudakesa, himself the dear one, took up for his dearest a white parasol adorned with strings of pearls and set on a jewelled staff. ¹⁸Uddhava and Satyaki took up the two most wonderful fans; and the lord of Madhu, showered with flowers, shone upon the road. ¹⁹Here and there true blessings were heard, uttered by the brahmanas, some fitting and some not fitting for him who is beyond the strands and yet is their very self.

²⁰Among the women of the city of the Kuru lord, whose minds were upon him whose praise is highest, there was talk with one another, charming to every ear.