The authors are grateful to Natesh Babu for his kind help in the recordings and in the preparation of the paper and to Pratibha Nagwar for her suggestions. Authors also place on record their appreciation to Shri Prakash, Shri Shripad, Dr Padmini, Ms Manjula and Dr Srividya for having lent their voices. This work forms a part of the dissertation submitted by the first author to Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana, Bangalore, for his Master’s degree.

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