This Bārahmāh or “twelve months song” depicts the singer as a gopi, or girlfriend of Krishna, who is yearning for Krishna, throughout the changing seasons. The song starts with Chaitra, the spring month of March/April. As the Brindavan landscape changes throughout the different months, the gopi tenderly remembers Krishna, who is now away in Mathura. Sung by a group led by Nirmada Upadhyay at a wedding of her relative in 1991, the song is inflected with Punjabi, a reminder that the Punjabi had a strong cultural influence in Kangra, which was an administrative district of Punjab until 1966. Recorded and collected by Kirin Narayan

The Rai or Kirat people of Eastern Nepal perform Sakela during Udhauli Parba and Ubhauli Parba, which fall in December or January and April or May respectively. The Rai people express their daily happenings and well wishes via Sakela songs and melodies. This song is performed in medium beat rhythm by dancers wearing traditional attires.