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singer, when I tried them together I got nothing hut a common-place soit 
of chant, containing one or two consecutive octaves, and not a particle of 
the spirit of what I had just heard sung. The above is the music of the 
narrative portion of the poem. Each il duyaf has a separate melody of 
its own. 
As the song is sung, the upper part is accompanied in unison on the 
saringa, of which an illustration, taken from Buchanan is appended. 
(Fig. 4.) The open note is tuned to E flat 
and the higher notes are formed by pressing down the wire on the various 
projecting knobs over which it passes. 
In conclusion, as I stated in my former paper, the poem is in many 
places unintelligible to every body I have met. In such places (satya yuger 
Jcathas) the singers have sometimes traditional interpretations. In one or 
two cases, however, they do not profess even to such: and, I trust, that 
I may he pardoned under such circumstances for giving a literal transla¬ 
tion, without attempting to educe sense out of the arrant nonsense thus 
arrived at. 
