Details

Other Title:

Saṃgītagrantha

Subjects:

Music -- India.
Music.
India.
Raga.
Dance -- India.
Dance.
Theater -- India.
Theater.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Fragment of a treatise about music, dance and theater. Title refers to a style of rāga (musical melody), a dhanyāśī or dhanāśrī, mentioned in the text. Manuscript lacks most of the text, including its beginning and ending.

Notes:

Title from line 3 of folio 28 recto; alternate title Saṃgītagrantha supplied by cataloger.
Written in 8 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 26-28, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with triple black line.

Cited in:

Listed in H.I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 2433 (UP 2440).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2440.

OCLC:

968128977