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  • Narinder Nanu/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images A Narsinga is a traditional music instrument of the Sikh community, usually played during religious occasions and processions.

    India's Folk Instruments 2011

  • Left, a Sikh devotee played a Narsinga during a procession from the Golden Temple in Amritsar, October 2007.

    India's Folk Instruments 2011

  • Maháráj = Great Rajah, Rajah in Chief, an Hindu title common to the three potentates before alluded to, the Narsinga, Balhara or

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • India, from Narsinga and Diu to Calicut is intimately associated.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • Camoens, with whose noble epic all Western India, from Narsinga and Diu to Calicut is intimately associated.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

  • According to Camoens, while Thorme was preaching to the potent Hindu city Meleapor, in Narsinga land [FN#325] a huge forest tree floated down the Ganges, but all the king's elephants and all the king's men were incompetent to haul it ashore.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

  • According to Camoens, while Thorme was preaching to the potent Hindu city Meleapor, in Narsinga land [FN#325] a huge forest tree floated down the Ganges, but all the king's elephants and all the king's men were incompetent to haul it ashore.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897

  • Camoens, with whose noble epic all Western India, from Narsinga and

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897

  • On the 25th, news came of the death of Wencatad Rajah, king of Narsinga, after having reigned fifty years, and that his three wives, of whom Obyama, queen of Pullicatt, was one, had burned themselves alive along with his body.

    A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784

  • I then dispatched the ambassadors of Narsinga to Velore, not having fit opportunity to essay the promised trade in that country, owing to my short stay, and in respect of the troubles consequent upon the succession: yet I left letters with them for the first English ships that might come to the coast, giving them my best advice.

    A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784

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