velu , ( 1 ) m. , f. , or nt. , a high number: veluḥ Mvy 7889 = Tib. dus rlabs , cited from Gv 133.20 where velu ( nt. ); cf. vela, velā (2); ( 2 ) (= Pali id. , bamboo , acc. to Childers also flute ; Skt. veṇu, both mgs. ), bamboo; bamboo-stick : so pi … ikṣustambo mahanto velupramāṇo ikṣu saṃjāto Mv ii.421.18 (of the size of a bamboo stick); flute : velum Mv iii.82.5 ( vs ), acc. sg. , in a list of musical instruments; so mss. , Senart em. veṇuṃ; perhaps, read velusmiṃ (pi) in Mv ii.423.16 for Senart veluṣi (which Index derives from velu), mss. veruṣi, loc. sg. , after dhanuṣi pi, in a list of arts learned by a prince, in (playing) the flute (?); in a very similar list ii.434.12 Senart reads dhanusmiṃ pi veṇusmiṃ pi, but for the latter, mss. cekasmiṃ, or cakasmiṃ, pi.