damaru
डमरु ḍamaruA small hourglass-shaped hand drum carried by Shiva, especially in his dancing forms; its beat is read as the first sound from which creation issues.
Where this term appears
- Shiva's Emblems: The Trishula and the Damaru Deities
These are the trishula and the damaru , and the tradition has thought about them for a very long time.
- How to Read a Murti Deities
A figure with a trident and a small hourglass drum is Shiva, whose trishula and damaru are his alone.
- Who is Shiva? Deities
Shiva is the supreme reality for the Shaiva traditions, and, by one widely cited estimate, for something like a quarter of all Hindus, though such figures are rough…
- The Divine as Music Treatise
At the close of Shiva's cosmic dance, to raise up the sages who watched, the god sounded the damaru , the small hourglass drum in his hand, fourteen times.
- The Perfect Machine Treatise
Tradition holds that these fourteen issued from the damaru , the small hand-drum of Shiva, sounded at the end of his dance.