ശ്രീ കൃഷ്ണ സ്തോത്രമ് (ഇന്ദ്ര കൃതമ്)

Indra's hymn, from the Krishna-janma-khanda of the Brahmavaivarta Purana, and it changes shape halfway through. It opens in the abstract — imperishable supreme brahman, light-formed, beyond the strands, formless — and gives the four colours he takes by yuga: white, red, yellow, dark. From the fifth verse it drops all of that for a single repeated word, kutracit, somewhere. Somewhere he plays with Radha in the Vrinda forest, somewhere in a lonely wood; somewhere he is dressing her hair, somewhere putting lac on her feet, somewhere taking the betel she has chewed, somewhere watching her watch him sidelong; somewhere eating what the brahmins' wives gave, somewhere palm fruit with the boys, somewhere setting a foot on Kaliya's head. That is the whole of its technique — the god is not described but located, over and over, in one place after another.