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Pakhawaj

पखावज
said pa-khaa-vaj
also written: pakhavaj, pakhawaj
Meaning

A two-headed barrel drum laid horizontally, the deep-toned percussion of dhrupad and the ancestor of the tabla.

Related words
SANSKRIT

Mridang

A double-headed barrel drum used in classical and devotional Indian music.

ARABIC

Tabla

A pair of hand drums central to North Indian classical music.

SANSKRIT

Dhrupad

The oldest surviving genre of Hindustani classical vocal music, austere and weighty, sung to fixed words.

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