Dindi dance.

Dindi Dance.
Some dances are danced more out of religious ecstasy and fervour than to give expression to an aesthetic feeling. The dindi dance which devotees or bhajanis of the Varkari cult engage in while going to a temple of Vithoba or taking part in a religious procession belongs to this kind. The participants generally fall in two rows facing one another, the mrdang player and the vina player who lead the dance being in between the rows. They click in rhythmic beat the tals held in their hands as they chant in chorus the names of Jnyanoba. and Tukaram or pick up the refrain of the bhajana given out by the leader-singer. And as they click and sing they dance in steady measured steps, all the while advancing towards the destination.