The author, I remember, told me that he would make his work extend to seven volumes, the same as Raja Radhakanta Deva's SabdakaJpadruma, but I do not think he had materials ready at hand for the purpose. He carried about with him an opportunity to examine them, and I was too young then to care for them. The author was a Brahman, and his great pretension was that he could sing in three octaves, the ordinary compass of the human voice being two and a half octaves. He pretended also that he could sing in an the Ragas and Raginis with absolute accuracy, and without ever mixing up the latter but I never studied music myself, and in my youth cared nothing about it, so I never could get any proof of the man's pretensions. He was always singing, but was not a professional musician, that j". he never let him- self out on hire. He received presents from the rich people of the town frequently, but never accepted anything as wages or remuneration for singing.
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