Kramrisch, Stella; Srinivasan, R.; Krishnaswami Pillai, T. G.; Brown, W. D. S.; Arts and Art Crafts Exhibition <1922, Adyar> [Contr.]: Indian art and art-crafts: (five lectures given in connection with the Arts and Art-Crafts Exhibition held during the Theosophical Society's Annual Convention, in December, 1922, at Adyar, Madras) (Adyar, Madras, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1923)

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and kinds of music a stream of fervent devotion and selfless
adoration
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prevalent
all these
day women are i
our old traditions,
intact in spite of
whom we, with a
grandmothers who
alive in the

of the Divine. The stories of the various Heroes and
are all written in song, in almost all the languages
in this great land; and our Hindu women used to sing
as they went about their household duties. Present
slowly getting further and further away from
the traditions which have kept Indian culture
all the onslaughts made upon it. It is those
shrug of the shoulders, call the old-fashioned
have really kept our traditions and culture
face of the denationalisation rampant in this
syty years ago. Even at the present
you will find the old people of the
and singing songs and verses in
find the elderly matron churning
all the time singing sweetly the
Cow-herd, Balakrishna of Brinda-
the lullabies to quieten children into
f the deeds of some divine Being,
hrough some street, you may come
round one or two beggars singing
Perhaps in one place you will find
to hear some great musical expert,
1 find that most of his songs are
that in some house there is a small
y what is called Bhajana, devotional
ring great musical talent. Even in
vill hear the peasant and the labourer,
herd, singing simple melodies generally
isode.