Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c6.s3.92
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c6.s3.92
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c6.s3.92
Among the musical instruments (turiyāni),¹⁰ the vīṇā¹¹ even then was the most popular. Now, what kind of vīṇā was this? It appears that this old vīṇā was a harp without a post; it had a hollow belly (doṇi), covered with a board or stretched leather (camma-pokkhara):¹² this belly was broader towards the back, where its end was rounded, and tapered towards the front, where it was continued into an upstanding curved arm (daṇḍa)¹³ which often terminated in a little scroll like the head of a violin. It had seven strings (sattatanti),¹⁴