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The Sangītopanisat-Sāroddhārah
A Fourteenth century Text on Music from Western India
(KMS No. 23)

Composed by VACANACARYA SRISUDHAKALASA

Edited and Translated by ALLYN MINER

1998, lxvii+263pp., bibl. indexes, ISBN: 81-208-1548-3,:Rs 400 (HB)

The Sangitopanisat-saroddhara is an important medieval text written in 1350A.D. It is attributed to a Jaina scholar, Vacanacarya SriSudhakalasa and represents a distinctive west Indian and Jaina stream of musicology. Composed about one hundred years subsequent to the great compendium, the Sangita-ratnakara there is significant difference in its approach and treatment of the subject.

This text stands in an intermediary position between the Sangita-Ratnakara and the later medieval works such as the Nartananirnaya. While epitomizing the Indian phenomenon of an adherence to certain key fundamentals it unfolds and reveals many processes of interaction and focuses attention on particular aspects of form and technique. It is also an important text for the change it reflects in understanding the ragas and raginis assigning the gender and visualising an iconography.

In this edition the text has been critically edited on the basis of several rare manuscripts and accompanied with a faithful English translation.

ALLYN MINER combines in herself the disciplines of Sanskrit and musicology. Besides, she is a distinguished musician. She is a Ph.D., from the University of Pennsylvania.

As a musician she has had rigorous training on Sitar under Thakur Raj Bhan Singh of Varanasi and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. She has authored an excellent work named Sitar and Sarod. She is presently Lecturer in Indian Music in the Department of South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania.



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