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# What does the name rudra veena mean?

 Updated 19 October 2026

 The name **[rudra veena](/instrument/rudra-veena)**, or rudra vina, means "the veena of Rudra", and Rudra is an epithet of Shiva. In North India the instrument is called the bin, also spelt been. Organologists class it as a stick zither, and the Met notes that it appears routinely in ragamala paintings, closely associated with dhrupad.



 

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