Fundamental of Ancient Indian Music and Dance

Author(s): Sureshchandra Benarji
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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APPENDIX
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(I) Pañcamasāra-samhitā Ascribed to Nārada To Nārada the following works on music are ascribed : (i) Nārdiyā Śikṣā”, (ii) Samgita-makaranda, (iii) Catvāriņsacchata-rāga-nirūpana or Raganirūpaņas, (iv) Pañcama-sāra-samhitā or Pañcama-samhitā.
The last one has not yet been printed. Svāmī Prajñānānanda, in his Bengali work Samgita O Samsksti, mentions a manuscript of this work (No. 5040) belonging to Asiatic society, Calcutta. Since then another MS, has been found in Bangiya Sahitya Parisat, Calcutta (No. 716) The Asiatic Society MS., entitled Pañcamasamhitā, contains only the third chapter called Raganirnaya. The other one contains four chapters. It is difficult to say whether or not it represents the complete work. At the end, it contains the chapter-colophon only, but does not indicate that the work is concluded. It is dated Śaka 1700 (=1778 AD). The third chapter of this MS. shows considerable divergence from the Asiatic Socity MS. The text, presented here, is based on the fuller MS. of the Bangiya Sāhitya Parişat. The divergences in the third chapter, contained in the Asiatic Society MS., will be clear on comparison of the two texts; the text of the Society MS. has been transcribed in Appendix E (2). The variants are considerable in number and striking in nature. This leads us to the conclusion that the two MSS. either represent distinct manuscript traditions or there were interpolations in any one of them. 1 (i) Benares ed., 1893 (with comm. by Bhattaśobhākara)
(ii) Calcutta ed., 1890. 2 Ed. GOS, No. XVI, Baroda, 1920. 3 Ed. Aryabhūşaņa Press, 1836.
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