The Social and Military Position of the Ruling Caste in Ancient India, as Represented by the Sanskrit Epic c2.s5.738

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† Vāditrāṇi, the ‘sounding’ things, are then, generally, percussive musical instruments; and tūrya, their sound. The terms for the instrument and music are occasionally interchanged, so that vāditra means music, and tūrya what makes it. Thus the tūryanāda in vii. 159. 37, though here joined to the ‘lion’s-roar’ (battle-cry), may be an instrument: compare vii. 19. 20; and in iv. 65. 15, na te ‘dya tūryāṇi samāhatāni (N. jayavādyāni), where tūryāṇi seems to me to be instruments. Compare in other literature the yāmyatūrya and mṛtyutūrya, a metal instrument beaten like a drum. So we might say in iii. 43. 11 ‘congratulations (āśīrvāda) with divyavāditra’ implies music or instruments, as beside are shells and drums.