Unlike a laboratory sonometer, a stringed instrument is seldom plucked in the middle. Supposing a sitar string is plucked at about $\frac{1}{4}$th of its length from the end. The most prominent harmonic would be
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(d) When plucked at one fourth it gives two loops, and hence $2$nd harmonic is produced.
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