The author notes that the flute seller selected a flute from time to time and played it for a few minutes. The sound rose clearly above the noise of the traffic and the hawkers' cries. While the flute seller played slowly, meditatively, and without excessive display, the hawkers shouted out their wares.
2. At Pashupatinath, there is a small shrine that protrudes from the stone platform on the riverbank. The belief is that when it emerges fully, the goddess inside will escape, and the evil period of Kaliyuga will end on earth.
3. (i) The author has drawn powerful images and pictures of the atmosphere of 'febrile confusion outside the temple of Pashupatinath. Many worshippers trying to get the priest's attention were elbowed aside by others pushing their way to the front. On the main gate, a party of saffron-clad Westerners struggled for permission to enter as only Hindus were allowed to enter the temple. A Fight broke out between two monkeys. One was chasing the other, who jumped onto a shivalinga,then ran screaming around the temples and down to the river, the holy Bagmati.
(ii) He saw that the Boudhanath Stupa had an immense white dome, which was ringed by a road.Small shops were there on the outer edge where felt bags, Tibetan prints and silver jewellery could be bought. There were no crowds there. On the busiest streets of Kathmandu, he saw fruitsellers, flute sellers, hawkers of postcards, shops selling Western cosmetics, film rolls, chocolate,copper utensils and Nepalese antiques.
(iii) The sounds he heard were film songs that were blaring out from the radios, car horns, bicycle bells, vendors shouting out their wares. He also listened to flute music, calling it the most universaland most particular of sounds.