Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c6.s3.110
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c6.s3.110
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c6.s3.110
Of other string-instruments, we have no knowledge.³ But of other kinds of musical instruments coming under the *pañcaṅgika-tūriyaṃ*,⁴ many are mentioned: *Pāṇissara*, *sammatāla* or the cymbals, *kumbhathūna* (*udakavādya*?) playing on cups filled with water in varying proportions, various kinds of drums—*Bherī*, *mutiṅgā*, *muraja*, *ālambara*, *ānakā*—, conches, etc.—*saṅkhā*, *paṇavadeṇḍimā*, *kharamukhaṃ*, *godhāparivādentikā*, *kuṭumbatiṇḍimāni*.⁵ Of the wind instruments, *veṇu*, or the flute was popular.⁶