Karmanirnaya 11_41

11_41

He says that even the sounds of the gargara, the godhā, the piṅgā, and the like designate the Lord, because they make manifest mere sound: “Down sounds the gargara,” and so forth. The meaning is that all this is indeed for Indra. “Brahman,” the Veda, is especially offered for Indra alone. “Gargara” is the name of an anklet, a large drum, a pot of curd, and an elephant's trunk. “Piṅgā” is a cakorī bird. The prefixes “ava” and “pari” are used to indicate that even particularities such as diminution or increase designate Him. “Caniṣkadat” is an onomatopoeic word. “Saniṣvaṇat” is in the sense of intensity.
And there is the scripture: “All these verses, all the Vedas, all sounds are just one sacred utterance: Prāṇa alone; one should know that Prāṇa is the verses.”
In the Śabdatattva [it is said]: “The churning sound of curd, too, by its nature of inner sound, expresses Hari's terrifying nature; for inner sound is in the terrifying. The trumpeting of an elephant, too, one should thus declare to be accompanied by reproach; because of connection with the circumflex accent, since a circumflex accent is in reproach. One should declare a great drum accompanied by waters and the like to be of such a nature. And the foot ornament expresses reproach, and the circumflex accent made by it. Like the sound in the throat of the piṅgā, it speaks of Hari’s wonderfulness; and the house godhā also expresses that same wonderfulness.” (2)