History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c37.s1.t5.6

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For thousands of years, news was sent by code sounds through parchment instrument for hundreds of miles by the peoples of different civilizations. Various announcements from palaces and worshipping places were also carried through these instruments which are finding a place even today in music concert, orchestra and visual presentations like drama, dance, film and television. The parchment has been expressing from time immemorial man’s joys and sorrows, love and valour, fright and ferociousness, his watery natural calamities spiritual aspirations, patriotic feeling, psychic and physical needs in a tone understandable by people speaking various languages.