Ambience/ASMR: Maharaja’s Royal Palace (Mahal), 18th Century India, 4 Hours

List of Sounds: - avian court-singers of unparalleled artistry, whose ceaseless, lauding birdsong echoes from the forest surrounding the palace, so near to the glittering, filigreed halls and chambers that they consider themselves members, too, of the royal court - cicadas ennobled as supporting instrumentalists for the regal birdsong serenade, males beating their tymbals like tablas -- a perpetual percussion that transcends rhythm -- and females stridulating a more subtle song, as on an accompanying sarangi - the wafting of a breeze that travels the grounds with princely abandon, now rustling leaves on every woodland tree, now dancing through courtyards, now sweeping grandly through stairways and corridors - the trumpeting of the maharaja’s own riding-elephant, tasked with carrying the ornate howdah in which the maharaja sits in majesty for ceremony, hunting, and war - a hawk crying out in eagerness for the thrill of pursuit, this keenly carnivorous raptor subdued by the art of falconry su