The book on Yazh, mother of string instruments, is out after 50 years
It was in 1947 that Vipulananda Adigal published a scientific study of the instrument in Yaazh Nool. The book was republished in 1974 and after half-a-century later, Sivalayam J. Mohan, secretary of Sekkizhar Aaraichi Maiyam, has reprinted it again