Pinaka veena

"The essential difference between this instrument and the been is that, in the place of chords it has but one string of wire, strongly stretched.

To draw out the sound, a bow like that of a bass is prest upon this chord, at the same time that another part of it is struck or rubbed with a little stick.

[2][3] It appeared similar to the rudra veena (also called "bīn" or "been"), with a long bar held over the musician's shoulder and resting on the ground, with large gourds attached at each end for resonators.

In the mid-12th century it was considered to be a very important instrument by Haripala, a Gujarati king (son of Karna).

By 1810 the instrument was rare, and much of our knowledge about its appearance comes from drawings made by Frans Balthazar Solvyns, an artist who illustrated many common scenes in the 1790s and early 1800s.