Swarabat
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thumb|'Lady playing swarabat'. Painting by Raja Ravi Varma. thumb|Instrument similar to swarabat in relief at Amaravati Stupa in southern India, 2nd century CE. The Swarabat, Swarbat or Swaragat is a rare plucked string instrument of the classical Carnatic music genre of South India. It belongs to the chordophone, lute family of musical instruments, and is closely related to the veena and yazh instruments of the ancient South Asian orchestral ensemble.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Swarabat is referenced by 91 other articles, and connects out to dholak, Sanskrit and violin.
It is catalogued under topics including Carnatic music instruments, Indian musical instruments and String instruments.
Its subject is documented across 4 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Use and history
- See also
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thumb|'Lady playing swarabat'. Painting by Raja Ravi Varma. thumb|Instrument similar to swarabat in relief at Amaravati Stupa in southern India, 2nd century CE. The Swarabat, Swarbat or Swaragat is a rare plucked string instrument of the classical Carnatic music genre of South India. It belongs to the chordophone, lute family of musical instruments, and is closely related to the veena and yazh instruments of the ancient South Asian orchestral ensemble.
==Etymology== Although popularly known as Swarabat, its correct pronunciation is Swaragat. Swara from Sanskrit connotes a note in the successive steps of the octave, ghat refers to steps leading down towards a river, while bhat in the language means scholar.
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