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CC Madhya 11.216

Bengali

অষ্ট মৃদঙ্গ বাজে, বত্রিশ করতাল ।
হরিধ্বনি করে সবে, বলে — ভাল, ভাল ॥ ২১৬ ॥

Text

aṣṭa mṛdaṅga bāje, batriśa karatāla
hari-dhvani kare sabe, bale — bhāla, bhāla

Synonyms

aṣṭa mṛdaṅga — eight mṛdaṅgas; bāje — sounded; batriśa — thirty-two; karatāla — cymbals; hari-dhvani — vibrating the transcendental sound; kare — does; sabe — every one of them; bale — says; bhāla bhāla — very good, very good.

Translation

In the four groups there were eight mṛdaṅgas and thirty-two cymbals. All together they began to vibrate the transcendental sound, and everyone said, “Very good! Very good!”