Re: [வல்லமை] பதலை :: தபலை (tabla)

[N. Ganesan]

I think it is just a depiction from a drama show. There are more sculptures of padalai (> tabla) in India and Cambodia. An ancient instrument is padalai, that was there throughout India for 2200+ years is clear.

Thanks to hi-res cameras in every mobile phone, and close to a billion of them, it will be good to take a look at all the available sculptures of musical instruments throughout the Indian subcontinent. We will have new data, on the origin of pre-violin with bowed strings (straight zither, curved zithers, harps, lutes, scores of drum types, wind instruments flutes, pungi (called *vayir* in Sangam texts) giving birth to nAgasvara, yaazh types, Veenas, ... Exciting days and years ahead for the history of music instruments in sculptures and texts!

BTW, Nagasvara Chakravarti T. N. Rajarathinam Pillai played the Mangala Vaadyam at India's independence day. He was the Tiruvaduturai Adheena Vidwan who went with the Mutt delegation to hand over the golden Sengol to the PM J. Nehru. Kumaramangalam Dr. P. Subbarayan's role in arranging this event is told by Nagasvara Chakravartihimself to Sri. T. Sankaran (brother of T. Balasarasvati and T. Viswanathan, Wesleyan University) in an interview (J. of Music Academy, Madras) quoted by B. Kolappan in the latest article in The Hindu. Now there is interview by Tiru. Masilamani Pillai, PS of the T. Mutt head (by R. Pande, Chanakya TV). And, also see the interview by Dr. B. M. Sundaram quoted in: https://twitter.com/naa_ganesan/status/1664128223897083906

It is clear Lord Mountbatten was not involved in the Sengol handover ceremony in 1947. He just watched it in the Durbar hall of Parliament. I suggested that in the future, like the USA Govt., Govt. of India say after 10 or 25 years release a coin commemorating the installation of the Nandi Sengol in the Indian Parliament. The coin should depict the Lion Capital and Nandi Sengol on the reverse and obverse sides. See the US Govt. coin:

N. Ganesan

On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 7:56 AM kanmani tamil <kanmani...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, it seems to be a man with a mask.

Reasons: 

1. The terracotta figure has a jacket worn in the chest and it resembles the one used to be worn by Rajasthani dancers.

2. The posture of the figure has the two legs bent in such a way that is common among people performing arts (never seen a monkey in this posture.).

3. The left profile of the figure shows the joint of the mask in the forehead. 

4. The neat combed hair could not be seen in a monkey. 

Sk

On Mon, 5 Jun 2023, 6:06 pm N. Ganesan, <naa.g...@gmail.com> wrote:

நிரஞ்சன், காற்று = கால்+து எனப் பிரிக்கலாமா எனக் கேட்டார். கால் என்பதுதான் வேர். அதெபோல, பதலை என்ற தாளக்கருவியைப் பார்க்கலாம். படபட/பறபற என்ற அதிர்வுகளால் ஒலி ஏற்படுத்துவது. எனவே, பறத்தல் என்ற வினைச்சொல் பிறந்தது. பறவை. பறை என்றால் பறவையின் இறகு, தாளக்கருவி. கடவு > கதவு, கடம்ப > கதம்ப ... போல, படலை > பதலை - வளைநா ஒலியை இழந்து ஏற்பட்டதா என்ற கேள்வி உண்டு. ஆனால், அதைவிட பத்- என்ற மூலமே பதலை என்னும் தாளக்கருவியின் பெயர் ஆகும்.

பதல்+து - பதறு. பதல்- > பதலை. மிக வலிமையான ஓசை எழுப்பாது, சற்றே மெலிந்து நடனத்திற்கு ஏற்ப ஒலியெழுப்பும், ஜோடியான ஒருமுகப்பறை. பதலை - தபலை : இடவல மாற்றம் (Metathesis). முதலில் இதனைச் சொல்லியவர், தணிகைமணி வ. சு. செங்கல்வராயபிள்ளை (திருப்புகழ் பதிப்பில்). அடுத்து, நீண்ட கட்டுரை: மயிலை சீனி. வேங்கடசாமி.

பதலை - சங்க காலத் தாளக் கருவி. tabla.
The ancient name for tabla is *patalai* in Sangam Tamil texts, 2000 years ago. By metathesis, it becomes *tapalai* (pronounced as tabalai), may be as a catalyst Arabic (or Persian) word would have worked.

Terracotta monkey (mask on a man?) playing tabla (तबला). Kushana period from Sirsa, Haryana
https://twitter.com/chronicle_watch/status/1665330073476685824

More later, N. Ganesan

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