Note 205 — Chapter X
William Johnston translation
The instruments employed for an accompaniment to pastoral songs, are: the guitar (Vina), the spinet (Kinnara), the flute (Vàyanacol), and a particular kind of lyre called Ciura, which is described in the first volume of the Asiatic Researches. The Indian war songs correspond with our heroics, their pastoral songs with our lyrics, and their theatrical pieces with our dramatic poems; but there is an essential difference between them, as appears from the above specimens, both in regard to the taste and quantity. A.