Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c7.228

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**Anaka (v.l. Aṇaka).**—A mutiṅga (kettle-drum) belonging to the Dasārahas. As it grew old and began to split, they fixed in another peg, and this process was continued, until, at last, the original drumhead vanished, leaving only the framework of pegs.¹ The origin of the drum is related in the *Kakkaṭa Jātaka*. When the Golden Crab, there mentioned, was trampled to death by the elephants, his two claws broke away from his body and lay apart in the *Kulīradaha*, where he lived. During the floods the water flowed from the Ganges into this lake, running back again when the floods subsided. The two claws were thus carried into the Ganges. One of them reached the sea, and the *Asuras*, picking it up, made thereof the drum named *Āḷambara*. The other was picked up by the Ten Royal Brothers (evidently the *Dasārahas* mentioned above) while playing in the river, and they made of it the little drum *Ānaka*.²