Krishna Flute Song

The bansuri is how Krishna is recognised in art before anything else is noticed, and it is almost absent from the Mahabharat. The flute belongs to the Vrindavan cycle — the childhood, the cowherds, the Bhagavata Purana and centuries of poetry after it — rather than to the counsellor at Kurukshetra.

That is the reason a page of music sits at the end of a library of argument. The teachings hold one aspect of him: the envoy, the charioteer, the man who talks Arjuna back into acting. The flute holds the other, and the collection would be describing half a figure without it.