qamaru ¦ (m., L.) id., Rājat. ii, 99; Prab. iii, 14 [a sacred drum, shaped like an hourglass, used by the god Śiva and by Buddhist mendicant monks for a musical accompaniment in chanting, (cf. MWB. 384, 385)]
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