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Given that until now all of the veena articles in Wikipedia have been dealing with modern (albeit traditional) Indian instruments, it was necessary, in order to deal with the early history of these instruments (or rather with the various early Indian instruments called veenaa, of which there are also several varieties, as attested in iconography and literary sources), to have a separate article. Such material could not be sensibly accomodated into any of the existing articles. I started the article with a description of the most famous of those early veenas, namely that depicted on some of Samudragupta's gold coins and which, adopted in Burma, gave rise to the instrument know as the saung or Burmese harp. Hopefully the article will not stop at this type of early veenaa. It could potentially accomodate material on all of the varieties of early veenaas. Signed: Basemetal (write to me here) 16:48, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
