Ooh...  Muthiah Bhagavatar's Khamas varnam.  But it sounds like he added some variations to the chittaswaras.  In the typical Mysore bani, though, he stuck to very foundational Khamas form, and that's also what makes his renditions classy.  It's impressive that he gets as much shape as he does out of it without pulling half as much as most modern vainikas do.

BTW, @Oliver --

Regarding bowed strings in ancient India, the sarangi probably does predate the violin, but because it had long been a folk music instrument that lay predominantly in Rajasthan for a very long time (mostly traveling northward towards modern-day Tibet), it wasn't an instrument that had any formal construction or rules to how they are to be played in the way the viol family have very specific dimensions and so on.

I'd say that the posture and stability of the sarangi make a few aspects of Indian classical music easier to play on it vs the violin.  Slides and oscillations and vibratos are all done with a hand that can be totally relaxed and straight.  It uses an underhanded bowing technique similar to the viola de gamba, which doesn't really change much as far as difficulty, but I find the control over bowing pressure is seemingly less precise.  There are a few things, however, that make the sarangi a little harder to play properly -- the main one being the fact that there's no concept of hard contact between the strings and the fingerboard.  The strings are stretched far away from the body, which means you have to stop them with your fingernails, cuticles, or by pinching the strings.  That makes it a lot harder to get real pitch purity and clarity of notes (especially for trills and such).  Also, because it depends on other strings for the resonance that a violin would get from its body, it doesn't project anywhere as strongly.  I characterize the sound as being like a violin being listened to from underwater.  As such, I think the violin is viewed a lot more favorably nowadays.  This is aside from the fact that in the Northern part of India -- which is pretty much the only part where the sarangi is really played -- music is not as pervasive as it is in the South.  In the North, the majority of people only know of music by way of Bollywood flicks, whereas in the South, there's a rule that a minimum of 3 households per street has a concert-ready musician in there, and almost everybody is a reasonably competent singer.

The violin, when it came into India came first through the South (generally, Baluswami Dikshitar is credited with bringing it), and only went into North Indian music around the end of the 19th century -- in fact, the man generally credited with the first ever Hindustani violin performance is Parur Sundaram Iyer, and both of his sons are still alive and performing today.  Suresh posted a video of the younger of those sons playing alongside his daughter on the first page.