. Musical instruments . ement ? Howbeit, Nareda, the giver of water, was the offspring ofBrahma the creator ; and Odin had his throne in the , many of the musical water-spirits appear to havebeen originallN- considered as rain deities. Their music may,therefore, be regarded as derived from the clouds rather thanfrom the sea. In short, the traditions respecting spirits andwater are not in contradiction to the opinion of tlie ancientHindus that music is of lioavenly origin, but rather tend tosupport it. The earliest musical instruments of the Hindus on recordhave, almost all of them,
. Musical instruments . ement ? Howbeit, Nareda, the giver of water, was the offspring ofBrahma the creator ; and Odin had his throne in the , many of the musical water-spirits appear to havebeen originallN- considered as rain deities. Their music may,therefore, be regarded as derived from the clouds rather thanfrom the sea. In short, the traditions respecting spirits andwater are not in contradiction to the opinion of tlie ancientHindus that music is of lioavenly origin, but rather tend tosupport it. The earliest musical instruments of the Hindus on recordhave, almost all of them, remained in popular use until thepresent day scarcely altered. Besides these, the Hinduspossess several Arabic and Persian instruments which are ofcomparatively modern date in Hindustan : evidently havingbeen introduced into that country scarcely i,ooo years ago, atthe time of the Muhammadan irruption. There are severaltreatises on music extant, written in Sanskrit, which containdescriptions of the ancient Ill,. 14.—ii. AND Ijiiw. Indiiin (;.iO. njtli cintmy. _•? in. , bow ii, 111. No. iKcr •.-;2. />. KiDRA \lN\. Siiuthi^ni (). mill ri 11111: y, I,, liin- I. AMI Snllthllll Illliall. l(lll c. iiliuy. L. ?.• in. Nil. 1)21 iS. I S. \icld:so far undetermined). The villa is luidouhtedly of higli anticiuity. It has sevenwire strings, and moval)le frets wiiirh are generally fastenedwith wax. (iourds, often tastefully ornamented, are affixedfor the ])uri)0se of increasing the sonorousness. T
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