Verse 8

⁸Krsna the Bhagavan, meaning to play there, and with Bala beside him, went in sounding his flute, the cowherds and the cattle all about him. ⁹Wearing new shoots, peacock feathers, clusters of blossom, garlands and coloured earth for ornament, the cowherds with Rama and Krsna danced and wrestled and sang. ¹⁰While Krsna danced, some sang, some kept time on flutes and the flats of their hands and horns, and others praised him aloud. ¹¹The gods, hidden among the cowherd folk, praised Krsna and Rama, who had taken cowherd shape, king, as actors praise an actor.