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FOREWORD
The present fourth volume completes the edition of the “Sangita Ratnākara " of Sārngadeva with its two main commentaries, the "Sudhākara" of Simhabhūpāla and the “Kalānidhi" of Kallinātha. This last and important volume contains only one chapter, the seventh, which deals exclusively with the technique and the art of dancing. This is the most extensive available work on dancing written after the “Abhinava Bhārati," the great commentary of Abhinava Gupta on Bharata's "Nātya S'āstra" which dates from the end of the 10th century.
Sārngadeva lived about the middle of the 13th century. Simhabhūpāla wrote the first commentary very shortly afterwards. Kallinātha wrote his "Kalanidhi" at the end of the 15th century. We have there fore here a survey of the art of dancing and the literature on the dance for more than two centuries in a period where Hindu civilization was still extremely brilliant.
The plan of the present chapter is not essentially different from that of the well known "Abhinaya Darpaņa" of Nandikes'vara. It is however more extensive and contains much additional information. On the
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