her actions are more appropriate to the heroic sentiment than to the erotic; when, seeing her in a disheveled state in the morning, Krishna remains infatuated with her, it is “marvelous” (adbhuta), the technical term for the sentiment of amazement; the embarrassed Radha’s attempt to cover her nakedness is comic; and the term for the sentiment of peace or religious serenity (santa) is used, not without irony, to describe Radha’s “placid” breasts.

12.27–29 These concluding verses, no doubt later interpolations, are included by Vanamalibhatta in his commentary, the Samjivini, and reprinted in the notes to the Nirnayasagara Press edition.