September 30, 2007

The _Nakkárah_ or _Nagárah_ was a great kettledrum, formed like a brazen

Filed under: explorers — chris @ 6:44 am

caldron, tapering to the bottom and covered with buffalo-hide–at least
3-1/2 or 4 feet in diameter
The _Nakkrah_ or _Nagrah_ was a great kettledrum, formed like a brazen
caldron, tapering to the bottom and covered with buffalo-hide–at least
3-1/2 or 4 feet in diameter. Bernier, indeed, tells of _Nakkras_ in use at
the Court of Delhi that were not less than a fathom across; and Tod speaks
of them in Rjptna as ‘about 8 or 10 feet in diameter.’ The Tartar
Nakkrahs were usually, I presume, carried on a camel; but as Kbli had
begun to use elephants, his may have been carried on an elephant, as is
sometimes the case in India. Thus, too, P. della Valle describes those of
an Indian Embassy at Ispahan: ‘The Indian Ambassador was also accompanied
by a variety of warlike instruments of music of strange kinds, and
particularly by certain Naccheras of such immense size that each pair had
an elephant to carry them, whilst an Indian astride upon the elephant
between the two Naccheras played upon them with both hands, dealing strong
blows on this one and on that; what a din was made by these vast drums, and
what a spectacle it was, I leave you to imagine.’

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