#esraj

[chordophoneoftheday]

Esraj

[andrevalias-tes]

'The Festival of Fragrance is something all Khenarthi Khajiit look forward to each year. We make and wear leis with frangipanis, cook and serve decadently spiced and sweetened food on the street, the music of the esraj and the sounds of drums fill the city, and we have performers who dance on the floating plaza.'

-- Jaran, telling a newcomer about the annual Festival of Fragrance in Mistral

[yanavaseva]

Another character in the Elder Scrolls series for @ry13mc

Hurzhar is the model of a Khajiit of Leisure. He is one son of an aristocratic clan of Senchal in Pellitine, Elsweyr. His clan owns Moon Sugar, Saltrice, and various other plantations along with with a handful of merchant ships. Hurzhar was something of a disappointment to his family due to his carousing. He preferred to while his days away in the city playing music, feasting, and dueling. His bardic nature eventually compelled him to leave Southern Elsweyr and find new songs and tales abroad, where he wrote about the places he went and the stories of those he met, immortalizing them in book and song.

[uesp]

Pictured: A Khajiit playing an esraj during a beautiful day. Everything is going to be alright.

[pathofregeneration]

Shri Ranadhir Roy, Raga Bhimpalasi (Esraj)

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“I have loved in life and I have been loved. I have drunk the bowl of poison from the hands of love as nectar, and have been raised above life's joy and sorrow. My heart, aflame in love, set afire every heart that came in touch with it. My heart has been rent and joined again; My heart has been broken and again made whole; My heart has been wounded and healed again; A thousand deaths my heart has died, and thanks be to love, it lives yet. I went through hell and saw there love's raging fire, and I entered heaven illumined with the light of love. I wept in love and made all weep with me; I mourned in love and pierced the hearts of men; And when my fiery glance fell on the rocks, the rocks burst forth as volcanoes. The whole world sank in the flood caused by my one tear; With my deep sigh the earth trembled, and when I cried aloud the name of my beloved, I shook the throne of God in heaven. I bowed my head low in humility, and on my knees I begged of love, ‘Disclose to me, I pray thee, O love, thy secret.’ She took me gently by my arms and lifted me above the earth, and spoke softly in my ear, ‘My dear one, thou thyself art love, art lover, and thyself art the beloved whom thou hast adored.’”

― Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Dance of the Soul

[matsuobsession]

Another edit I made of Endless Summer as a Netflix show ❤️ This isn’t as good as my last one but I still like it 😍

[quentinfovet]

Selection of indian musical instruments, mainly strings and percussions

[andrevalias-tes]

'Everyone loves the esraj. I do as well, but I adore the bansuri even more. To think, not only could one make Topal bamboo into scaffolding for buildings but such beautiful instruments. There is a ja'khajiit who plays at sunrise in town, and I always stop to listen until he is finished.'

-- Morilia, commenting on the music at the festival; the esraj and bansuri players harmonise in a way that brings tears to her eyes