Chapter LVI

Cf. the extract from Kālī Krishna Dasa's _Kāmini Kumāra_, translated in Dinesh Chandra Sen's _Bengali Language and Literature_, p. 688.

8. _Pañcam_--the dominant. Also in CV, 2. The pitch of each of the seven notes "was originally determined by the rishis of the forest from the sounds of various Birds and Animals uttered at particular seasons and times. . . Pā is the note sounded by the Kokila, the Indian nightingale, at springtime, when after a silence of six months it hails the brightest period of the year and tastes the first sprouts of the new season with an ebullition of joy"--Chinnaswami Mudaliyar, _Oriental Music_.

10. 'Twice-born,' epithet equally of Brāhmans and birds. The sense is that in this Nature-festival the birds performed the 'the most solempne servise' of the officiating priests.