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तूणव (tUNava)

 
Capeller Eng
English
तू॑णव
m.
a flute.
Spoken Sanskrit
English
तूणव tUNava
m.
flute
Monier Williams Cologne
English
तू॑णव
m.
a flute,
TS.
vi
Kāṭh.
ĀpŚr.
v, 8, 2
Nir.
xiii, 9
तू॑णव
mfn.
ifc.
Pāṇ.
ii, 2, 34,
Vārtt.
1.
Monier Williams 1872
English
तूणव तूणव, अस्, m., Ved. a wind instru-
ment, a flute (?).
—तूणव-ध्म, अस्, m., Ved. a
flute-player (?).
Macdonell
English
तूणव tūṇava,
m.
flute.
Vedic Reference
English
Tūṇava denotes in the later Saṃhitās^1 and the Brāhmaṇas^2
a musical instrument of wood, probably the ‘flute.’ A ‘flute-
blower’ is enumerated among the victims of the Puruṣamedha,
or ‘human sacrifice.’^3
1) Taittirīya Samhitā, vi. 1, 4, 1
Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, iii. 6, 8
Kāṭhaka
Saṃhitā, xxiii. 4
xxxiv. 5 (Indische
Studien, 3, 477).
2) Pañcavimśa Brāhmaṇa, vi. 5, 13
Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, iii. 4, 13, 1
15, 1
Nirukta, xiii. 9.
3) Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xxx. 19, 20
Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, loc. cit.
Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 289.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
तूणव
पु०
तूणस्तदाकारोऽस्त्यस्य केशा० तूणं तदाकारं वातिवा--क वा तूणाकारे वाद्यभेदे “सैषा वाग् वनस्प-तिषु वदति या दुन्दुभौ या तूणवे या वीणायाम्” तै०स० “वीणावाद क्रोशाय तूणवध्ममवरस्प-राय” यजु० ३० १९ “तूणवं वाद्यभेदं धमति तथा-भूतम्” वेददी० “वीणावादं पाणिघ्नं तूणवध्मं ता-न्नृत्तायानन्दाय” यजु० ३० २०
Capeller
German
तूणव
m.
Flöte.