- Catching quail in the net
Catching quail in the net - Children looking up in the air
Children looking up in the air - Cooking Rice
Cooking Rice - Crane catching a fish
Crane catching a fish - Crane with crab on its back
Crane with crab on its back - Elephant and children
Elephant and children - Elephant and man
Elephant and man - Elephant chained up
Elephant chained up - Elephant playing with children
Elephant playing with children - Elephant pulling out a tree
Elephant pulling out a tree - Elephant with sore foot
Elephant with sore foot - Feeding the pig to the people
Feeding the pig to the people - Feeding the pig
Feeding the pig - Going to the king
Going to the king - He Ran away from the crowd
He Ran away from the crowd - Men against elephant
Men against elephant - Men and deer
Men and deer - Men with swords
Men with swords - Oxen
Oxen - Seated elephant
Seated elephant - The animals running
The animals runing - The Geese and the turtle
The Geese and the turtle - The King and the turtle
The King and the turtle - The Lion
The Lion - The Merchant throws the bowl on the ground
The Merchant throws the bowl on the ground - The Merchant with the golden bowl
The Merchant with the golden bowl - The woodsman and the soldier
The woodsman and the soldier - There must be water here
There must be water here - Two deer
Two deer - A man
A man - A monkey
A monkey - Birds in a tree
Birds in a tree - Bull and man
Bull and man - Hindustan, vina
The vina is undoubtedly of high antiquity. It has seven wire strings, and movable frets which are generally fastened with wax. Two hollowed gourds, often tastefully ornamented, are affixed to it for the purpose of increasing the sonorousness. There are several kinds of the vina in different districts; but that represented in the illustration is regarded as the oldest. The performer shown is Jeewan Shah, a celebrated virtuoso on the vina, who lived about a hundred years ago. The Hindus divided their musical scale into several intervals smaller than our modern semitones. They adopted twenty-two intervals called sruti in the compass of an octave, which may therefore be compared to our chromatic intervals. As the frets of the vina are movable the performer can easily regulate them according to the scale, or mode, which he requires for his music.