[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tod-1829) › v2.c27.s2.46 # Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s2.46 Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s2.46 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c27.s2.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tod-1829.v2.c27.s2.46) ¹ An account of the state of musical science amongst the Hindus of early ages, and a comparison between it and that of Europe, is yet a desideratum in Oriental literature. From what we already know of the science, it appears to have attained a theoretical precision yet unknown to Europe, and that at a period when even Greece was little removed from barbarism. The inspirations of the bards of the first ages were all set to music; and the children of the most powerful potentates sang the episodes of the great epics of Valmiki and Vyasa. There is a distinguished member of the Royal Asiatic Society, and perhaps the only one, who could fill up this hiatus; and we may hope that the leisure and inclination of the Right Honourable Sir Gore Ousely will tempt him to enlighten us on this most interesting point. - [Previous: v2.c27.s2.45](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tod-1829.v2.c27.s2.45) - [Next: v2.c27.s2.47](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tod-1829.v2.c27.s2.47) - [Up: v2.c27.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tod-1829.v2.c27.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tod-1829.v2.c27.s2.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tod-1829.v2.c27.s2.46) · Pramāṇa