tAqAvacara
tāḍāvacara , also (doubtless wrongly) spelled tāḍopacāra , m. and nt. (= Pali tāḷā°, wrongly defined in PTSD ; it means a musical instrument , as stated by comm. ( 596.15 ) on DN ii.159.16 which glosses turiyabhaṇḍaṃ; Skt. tālāv° seems to mean a person, see BR , and Rām. 7.91.15 , BR 5.1469 ), a musical instrument in general or a particular class of them, prob. of the cymbal type, cf. tāḍa ; almost always preceded by tūrya: sarvagītavādyanṛtya-tūrya-tāḍāvacara-saṃgīti-saṃpravāditaiḥ pūjā karaṇīyā SP 232.3 (prose); nearly this same cpd. LV 82.5 ; tūryatāḍāvacaraiḥ satkriyate sma LV 96.20 ; vādyantāṃ sumanojñatūryatāḍāvacarāṇi 118.9 ; sarvavāditehi sarvatūryatāḍāvacarehi bhagavantaṃ satkṛtya Mv iii.138.7 ; sarvatūryatāḍ°rehi 179.2 ; °raḥ Mvy 5023 = Tib. pheg rdob pa , variously defined as a small brass plate for music (a cymbal), or a kind of drum ; tūrya-tāḍ° Laṅk 3.4—5 ; 16.1, 7 ; Dbh 85.31 ; Mmk 79.5 ; tūrya-tāḍ°ra-nirghoṣeṣu Gv 174.24 ; sarvatūryāṇi sarvatāḍāvacarān 219.22 ; spelled (almost certainly by error, yet cf. upacāra with avacara ) tāḍopacāra twice in Gv , -divya-tūrya-tāḍopacāra-saṃgīti- 119.4 and 147.7 ; in Samādh p. 20 line 2 printed °canaiḥ, read °raiḥ.