Śrī Nāma kīrtana — Chanting of the Holy Names

Sri Nama-kirtana, four songs devoted specifically to chanting the holy name as its own dedicated act, is distinct from the public street processions of Sri Nagara-kirtana elsewhere in Gitavali, functioning instead as a shorter, more concentrated section built almost entirely around the repeated call to say Hari's name. Its songs tend to be rhythmically simple by design, built around direct, repeated calls rather than developed argument or description, intended less as compositions to be studied than as chants meant to be answered aloud by a group. The section's final song shifts into a more formal register, built around a string of names each followed by the word namah, obeisance, a structure that closely echoes classical Sanskrit nama-kirtana forms used across Vaishnava tradition long before Bhaktivinoda Thakura composed Gitavali, closing this brief section on that older, more traditional note after its simpler Bengali calls.