The ('five musical instruments') is a set of five traditional Nepali musical instruments that are played during holy ceremonies, especially marriages. are usually played by the Damai and the Gaine castes in the Hindu tradition.[1] They are played using the rhythm of folk Nepali songs. It is named as Panchje Baja because in Nepali panch (рел) means 5 and the set includes five different types of instruments and baaja means musical instruments.
The first part of the term is also transliterated , , or ; the latter also as .
The includes the jhyali (cymbals), or dholak (drums), damaha (large kettledrum), narsinga (a long, C-shaped trumpet), shehnai (a folk oboe),[2] and karnal (a wide-mouthed, straight trumpet with a bell that resembles the datura flower).[2] Other renderings give the ensemble as:,,,, and .[3] These are very important components of . Other than that, there is not a fixed rule on how many instruments should contain.