[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891) › c11.203 # The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c11.203 The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c11.203 - **Language:** English ### [c11.203](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c11.203) T HE Kinnari is a rude stringed instrument employed chiefly by the country people in South Kanara and Mysore. It is somewhat singular that a stringed instrument of much the same name—the Kinnor¹⁵—should have been mentioned in the Bible, and this leads one to conjecture that they may both have been derived from the same Aryan source; for the Kinnari is an instrument of great antiquity, and takes its name from the legend that it was invented by Kinneri, one of the gandhârvas or singers of Brahma-loka, the heaven of the god Brahma. - [Previous: c11.202](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c11.202) - [Next: c11.204](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c11.204) - [Up: c11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c11) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c11.203](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c11.203) · Pramāṇa