Indian Antiquary Vol 41

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 199

AUGUST, 1912.]
(2) Classification according to supposed descent from various families, viz., (a) from the devas (shadja, gandhára and madhyama), (b) from the pitris (panchama), (c) from the rishis (rishabha and dhaivata), (d) from the asuras (nisháda).
(3) Castes-(a) Brahmanas (shadja, madhyama and pañchama), (b) kshatriyas (rishabha and dhaivata), (c) vaisyas (nishada and gandhara), (d) sûdras (antara and kákali). Here again it is easy to see that the position of a note in the caste system depends upon its richness in śrutis. Antara and kakali (explained in another part of this essay) being only intercalary notes are classed lowest.
KUMARAPALA AND ARNORAJA
(4) Colours.-The colours of the seven notes, as mentioned by Rajâ S. M. Tagore's according to Sanskrit Authorities,' differ from those given in the S. R. which are respectively as follows:(1) lotus red, (2) piñjara (pale yellow-Simhabhûpâla), (3) golden, (4) kunda white, (5) black, (6) yellow, (7) variegated. Certain authors look upon these as examples of photisms.' If so the Hindus must be regarded as having not only their sense of vision thus affected by various musical notes, but also their senses of family descent, of caste, of birth-place, of god-fathers (rishis), of presiding deities, and of metre! For, they attach all these characters to the musical notes. (5) Birth-places. The seven dripas correspond to an equal number of notes, and hence this
idea.
(6) Rishis or god-fathers.
(7) Presiding deities.
(8) Representative Varieties of Metre.
For all these the reader should consult the S. "R.
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(To be continued.)
KUMARAPALA AND ARNORAJA.
BY HAR BILAS SARDA, B.A., F.R.S.L., M.B.A.S.; AJMER.
THE Gujarat Chroniclers mention only one war between Kumarapala, the successor of Siddharaja-Jayasimha, king of Anhilwârâ and Argorâja, king of Sapädalaksha, as the kingdom of Ajmer was then called. Recent research, however, shows that two distinct wars, separated from one another by several years, took place between the two combatants and that the incidents of the war mentioned by the Gujarât writers belong some to the first and some to the second war.
The Prabandha-chintamani of Merutanga and the Duydiraya-mahakavya of Hemachandra place the war they describe at the beginning of Kumarapala's reign. The Prabandha-chintamani says that prince Bâhada, son of Udayana, who had been adopted by Siddharaja-Jayasimha as his son, despising Kumarapala, made himself a soldier of the king of the Sapâdalaksha country. He, desiring to make war on Kumarapala, having won over to his side all the officers in those parts with bribes, attentions and gifts, bringing with him the king of the Sapudalaksha country, surrounded with a large army, arrived on the borders of Gujarât.1
The Deydiarya of Hemachandra says that the Raja of Sapadalaksha, whose name was Anna, when he heard of the death of Jayasimha, though he had been a servant of 'that monarch, now thought the time was come for making himself known. . . ... Anna began to make friends with Ballala the king of Ujjain and the Râjâs of the country on the west of Gujarat, holding out threats to them as well as promises. Kumarapala's spies made known to him that Anna Raja was advancing upon the western frontier of Gujarat with an army.2
65 The Musical Beales of the Hindus, p. 100; Universal History of Music, addenda p. vi.
4 J. Combarieu-Music, Its Laws and Evolution.
1 Prabandha-Chintamani by Tawny, p. 121.
Forbes' Rasmala (p. 142), which gives Duy&straya's account of the war.