The Music of Hindostan c8.s1.30

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c8.s1.30

The rest of the picture is filled with horns (śṛṅga), conchs (śaṅkha), gongs (jayaghaṇṭa, lit. bell of victory), cymbals (jallali), pipes (kuṛāl), and various other instruments not identified. We get a glimpse of the scale on which ecclesiastical music was planned from an inscription (A.D. 1051) on the Rājarājeśvara temple at Tanjore:

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