- མཁར་རྔ།
- འཁར་བའི་རྔ།
- mkhar rnga
- ’khar ba’i rnga
- paṇava
- pāṇava
- Term
- paṇava
- མཁར་རྔ།
- mkhar rnga
- paṇava
- pāṇava
Listed among Indian instruments as an hourglass drum, played in the hand, and the ancestor of the present day huḍukka, somewhat larger than the ḍamaru. See Saṅgītaśiromaṇi: A Medieval Handbook of Indian Music, edited by Emmie Te Nijenhuis, p. 549. However, Dutt describes it as a drum made of bell metal, which matches the Tibetan translation as “bronze drum,” but he may have been influenced by the Tibetan translation of chapter 30. In an earlier chapter paṇava is simply transcribed into Tibetan. An example of a bell metal drum would be the ceṇṇala, a small flat gong of bell metal that is hit with a stick and used to keep time in South Indian music. Other instruments mentioned are of the South Indian tradition.
- small kettledrum
- འཁར་བའི་རྔ།
- ’khar ba’i rnga
- paṇava