Word: shridaman
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Mann's two young men differ notably in physique and temperament. Shridaman has a noble head, a secondary body, Nanda a handsome body whose head is like the parsley on a roast. Shridaman is the religious, poetic, neurotic type, Nanda an amiable, simple sensualist. They like each other through their differences. For shy Shridaman, Nanda courts Sita "of the beautiful hips," and whose head is as empty as her body is luscious. The tragicomic troubles of this trio are just nicely begun where the original legend ends...
Nanda, with his second-team head and Shridaman's bench-warming body, retires to the woods for solitude and self-mortification. Shridaman, with Nanda's body, becomes that great rarity, "a husband who, so to speak, consisted of nothing but principal features." For a while he and Sita have a wonderful time...
Under the mishaps of Shridaman and Nanda lie, half disclosed, the whole range of human hope and hopelessness, the folly and significance of the effort to unite opposites, the impossibility of gratifying a desire except at the expense of someone else...
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