138. performance
- 4.17.3, p. 582.
- Quoted in Rothenberg 1968, 417.
- 1.240.2, p. 196.
- In saying, “As I am [i.e., as I am dressed], so I behave,” the man who played
Brahma unconsciously echoes Tulsidas’s “According to one ’s costume, so should one
dance,” cited above. Compare also the sadhu’s comments on form and dress.
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