- instrument's name has been
variously spelled narsinga, ransingha, ramsinga, and
srnga.
Srnga is
Sanskrit for horn and used in
North India and Nepal. Its
modern forms...
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Shringasaurus (meaning "horned lizard", from
Sanskrit शृङ्ग (
śṛṅga), "horn", and
Ancient Gr**** σαῦρος (sauros), "lizard") is an
extinct genus of archosauromorph...
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nymph Urvaśī and
produced a son
named Suveśa. Vetāla
fathered a son
named Śṛṅga with Kāmadhenu.
These lineages continued to flourish.
According to tradition...
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Prakrit (Middle Indic) singabera, from
Sanskrit श्रङ्गवेर śrngavera, from
śrnga "horn" + vera- "body", although, it may have
derived instead from Tamil...
- Indo-European
cognate of
Luwian 𒍪𒌨𒉌 (zurni, “horn”),
Sanskrit शृङ्ग (
ṡṛṅga, “horn”),
Latin cornū, and
English horn,
probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European...
- the Ṛg Veda (1.54.6): tā vāṁ vāstuny uśmasi
gamadhyai yatra gavo bhūri
sṛṅga ayāsaḥ atrāha tad urugāyasya viṣṇoḥ parama-padam avabhāti
bhuri "I desire...
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represented here with a dash. In
another apparent violation,
Sanskrit शृङ्ग
śṛṅgá 'horn' is
derived from the zero-grade form *ḱr-n-go-.
Although the expected...
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acoustical details apply to most animal-horn trumpets. The
Indian shringa, or
ṣṛnga, (Sanskrit for "horn") was
originally made from the horn of the buffalo...
