84000 Glossary of Terms

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རྔ་པ་ཊ་ཧ། | Glossary of Terms

  • རྔ་པ་ཊ་ཧ།

  • rnga pa Ta ha
  • paṭaha
  • Term
Publications: 2
  • paṭaha drum
  • paṭaha
Definition in this text:

A barrel drum that can be hung by a strap from the body and played sitting or standing by beating the upper surface, or both surfaces, with two curved drumsticks. There is also an identification of this term with a disk-shaped drum with the skin on one side only, similar to a tambourine, and also a drum like the mṛdaṅga with a thick middle and one end smaller than the other.

  • paṭaha drum
  • རྔ་པ་ཊ་ཧ།
  • rnga pa Ta ha
  • paṭaha