The Music And Musical Instruments of Southern India And the Deccan
The Music And Musical Instruments of Southern India And the Deccan
C R Charles Russell Day
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There can be no doubt that the practice of using it is as ancient as Hinduism itself, and the ritual liturgies and works on ceremonial observances define the use to be made of it. ' In fact, the use of bells for religious purposes '• Proceedings, Royal Irish Ai-:ulciny. " \'ol. I. X.. Fart i. THE MUSIC OF SOUTHERN INDIA. 95 seems to hav'e been from the earliest times so universal amongst almost all nations that it is only necessary to point out that the exact counterpart of the Hindu Ghante is ...to be found at the present day in the Sanctus bell in use in Christian Churches, and it is perhaps worthy of note that in the great sculptured Trimurti or Hindu trinity at Elephanta one of the figures holds a bell. The Dasaris, a mendicant class of temple servers of Vaisnavite persuasion, usuallv employ a little side-drum, with one head only, called Dinni, not unlike the modern Egyptian " Tabl Shami"; other mendicants, called Andis, outcasts from Saivite sects, play upon a small gong called Semakkalam, which they beat with a stick.
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