Ransingha

[2] It is part of a group of curved-tube instruments that include the ransingha, the narsinga and the sringa.

It may also be related to the laawaa and Tibetan dungchen, both straight tubular copper horns.

It is mentioned in Emilio Salgari's works such as The Mystery of the Black Jungle (1895), where it is associated with the thugee cult.

In Chapter 62 of Foucault's Pendulum (1988) the Ramsinga is also mentioned, being played by a devotee of a druidic sect .

[4] The Narasingha horn is also played by the Gawantaris (musicians) of the Udasi sect of Sikhism to inform the public about religious processions.

Ransingha horn assembled in the C shape. Can also be fitted into S shape.
India, 1799. The Ramsinga , as depicted in the book Les Hindoûs (Volume II), by the Flemish artist Frans Balthazar Solvyns .