the Indian lute, mandoline SN.i.122 = Snp.449 (kacchā bhassati “let the lyre slide down from hollow of his arm” K.S. i.153); Thag.467; SN.iv.196 (six parts); AN.iii.375; Ja.iii.91; Ja.v.196, Ja.v.281 (named kokanada “wolf’s howl”); Ja.vi.465 = Ja.vi.580; Vv.64#19; Vv.81#10; Mil.53 (all its var. parts); Vv-a.138 Vv-a.161, Vv-a.210; Pv-a.151
■ vīṇaṃ vādeti to play the lute Mhvs.31, Mhvs.82; Thag-a.203.

• -daṇḍaka the neck of a lute Ja.ii.225.
• -doṇikā the sounding board of a lute (cp. doṇī¹ 4) Vism.251; Vb-a.234; Kp-a.45.

cp. Vedic vīṇā