Details

Subjects:

Rāṭhī, Dāmodaradāsa, 17th century. Sāṃgītadarpaṇa.
Hindu music.
Hindustani music -- India.
Hindustani music.
India.
Music -- India -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music.
Music -- India -- History and criticism.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Diagrams.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Hindi (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Treatise discussing the aesthetics of music and the identification of various musical notes with different Hindu deities (such as Śiva and Agni); this Hindi work comments on and paraphrases the Sanskrit work of the same title Sāṃgītadarpaṇa by Dāmodara, and should not be confused with same; includes some numerical diagrams.

Notes:

Title from title colophon (f. 59r).
Written in 16-18 lines per leaf.
62 leaves foliated [i-ii], 1-59, [i], upper left verso.
Colophon: iti śrīsāṃgītadarpaṇasamāptam // [sa]ṃbat 1844 (f. 59r).
Dated saṃvat 1844 (1787) (f. 59r).
Mistakes covered blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
Non-Latin script record.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Indic 8

OCLC:

779548185