Kinnara

Kinnara 1. name of a *stick zither in Hindu and old Javanese literature. Such an instr., with single string and gourd resonator held against the body, is found on the reliefs at Borobudur (ca. 800). Cf. kinnōr, kinnāra, kinyra (118); 2. Tel.: kinnari. Kunst, Jaap. The Cultural Background of Indonesian Music. Amsterdam, 1949.