they may have been similar to the present day Mridanga.
smaller vessels of different shapes as in the tabla and the Mridanga.
contrivances in the more advanced membranophones like the pakhavaj, the Mridanga and the tabla.
be that it referred to the three major avanaddha vadya: the Mridanga, the panava and the dardura.
One meaning could
be that it referred to the three major avanaddha vadya: the Mridanga, the panava and the dardura.
This defect is got over by numerous
contrivances in the more advanced membranophones like the pakhavaj, the Mridanga and the tabla.
The yava or barleyi shaped drums were also barrel drums and
they may have been similar to the present day Mridanga.
The body could be of wood or burnt clay with the two heads made of multiple membranes as in the Mridanga.
Ramayana and Mahabharata have: noopuram- LCB- ankle bells; bheri, dundubhi, Mridanga, pataha( drums);
sankh( conch), venu( flute); and vallaki, a seven- stringed harp.
But with the development of mechanical aids like lathes, wood has been shaped into
smaller vessels of different shapes as in the tabla and the Mridanga.
The Kazi came and broke a Mridanga and declared that unless Nimai Pandita ceased to make
noise about His queer religion, he would be obliged to enforce Islam on Him and His followers.
Some scholars are of the opinion, however, that these were really descriptions not of different kinds of drums but the positions of a three-
piece Mridanga: that is,
in those days Mridanga might have referred collectively to three barrel drums and the terms used above indicated how each unit was kept.