Dear List members,
I would like to know more about the so-called tuning paste, or the mud smeared on the membrane of a drum (Skt
mārjanā) or (in Caṅkam poetry) a lute (yāḻ). What does it actually do, for instance, is it making the leather more supple?
With kind regards, Herman
Herman Tieken
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The Aśoka Inscriptions: Analysing a corpus, New Delhi: Primus Books, 2023.