1. The author notes that when the other hawkers shout out their wares the flute seller doesn't. The flute seller selects a flute and plays slowly, meditatively, without excessive display. Occasionally he made a sale and took a break to talk to the fruit seller.
2. At Pashupatinath, there is a small shrine that half protrudes from the stone platform on the river bank of Bagmati. The people believed that when the shrine will emerge fully, the goddess inside will escape and the evil period of Kaliyug will come to an end.
3. (i) Outside the temple of Pashupatinath the author found an atmosphere of ‘febrile confusion’. There were many worshippers. Some people were trying to get the priest ’s attention and were elbowed aside by others. A party of saffron-clad Westerners were struggling for permission to enter. A fight broke out between two monkeys.
(ii) The things he sees include the temple at Pashupatinath, the Baudhnath stupa, shops owned by Tibetan immigrants, small shrines, flute sellers, hawkers, shops selling Western cosmetics, Nepalases antiques,
(iii) The sounds he heard were of film songs blaring out from the radios, car horns, bicycle bells, vendors shouting out their wares. He also heard flute music which appealed to him as the most universal and most particular of sounds.
