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The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c11.200

The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c11.200

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c11.200

The Hindus say that an instrument of this description was first invented by the rishi or sage Kattyayana; hence it is called the Kattyayana vina—and sometimes Shatatantri (or hundred-stringed) vina—in the Sanskrit treatises.