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  2. Bansuri - Wikipedia

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    The bansuri-like flute is depicted in ancient Buddhist, [4] Hindu [5] and Jain temple paintings and reliefs, and is common in the iconography of the Hindu god Krishna. [6] [7] It is intimately linked to the love story of Krishna and Radha. [8] The bansuri is revered as Lord Krishna's divine instrument and is often associated with Krishna's Rasa ...

  3. Dashavatara - Wikipedia

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    Krishna's birthday is celebrated every year by Hindus on Krishna Janmashtami according to the lunisolar Hindu calendar, which falls in late August or early September of the Gregorian calendar. Krishna is usually depicted with a flute in his hand. Krishna is also a central character in Mahabharata, Bhagavata Purana, and the Bhagavad Gita.

  4. Krishna - Wikipedia

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    Depiction of Krishna playing the flute in Todai-ji Temple, constructed in 752 CE on the order of Emperor Shomu, in Nara, Japan. Krishna is often depicted wearing a peacock-feather wreath or crown, and playing the bansuri (Indian flute). [94] [95] In this form, he is usually shown standing with one leg bent in front of the other in the Tribhanga ...

  5. Venu - Wikipedia

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    The flute (venu) finds great mention in Indian mythology and folklore having been listed as among the three original instruments meant for music along with the human voice and the veena (vaani-veena-venu). [7] The venu is associated with the Hindu god Krishna, who is often depicted playing it. This kind of flute is mainly used in South India.

  6. Bamboo flute - Wikipedia

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    The oldest written sources reveal the Chinese were using the kuan (a reed instrument) and hsio (or xiao, an end-blown flute, often of bamboo) in the 12th-11th centuries b.c., followed by the chi (or ch'ih) in the 9th century b.c. and the yüeh in the 8th century b.c. [3] Of these, the chi is the oldest documented cross flute or transverse flute ...

  7. List of compositions by Tyagaraja - Wikipedia

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    He was a prolific composer and highly influential in the development of the South Indian classical music tradition. Tyagaraja is said to have composed thousands of devotional compositions, most of them in praise of Lord Rama; some of which remain very popular even today.

  8. Raghunath Seth - Wikipedia

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    Pandit Raghunath Seth (1931 – 15 February 2014) was a noted Indian exponent of Hindustani classical music through the medium of Bansuri, or bamboo flute; he was also a noted film score composer. He has received Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1994, given by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama. [1] [2]

  9. Flute - Wikipedia

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    The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air.. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an ope