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Roopa Kulkarni
चच्चद्भुनभ्रमितचण्डगदाभिघातसचूर्णितोव्युगलस्य सुयोधनस्य । स्त्यनावनअपनशोणितशोणपाणिः उत्तयिष्यति कचास्तव देवि भीमः ॥
All these verses are given as examples of best type of poetry-ovon best among Dhvant-kavya varieties.
Here, the means of suggestion were mainly words and their primary meanings The words did not convey only the logical meaning, but, by their associations and aounds, evoked in the reader a certain state of mind. The samo function of suggestion or Vyanjana works also in Music, Only tho meana are different A musiclan uses notes i... 'Svaras',2s instead of words. There are seven guddha notes and five viksta notes in Indian Music24 but, by varlons combinations, bundreds of Ragas are created, Music has somewbat peculiar a place among all other fine arts, because it is solely Srananago. cara tandible'. A great Marathi critic and poet, Late B.S. Mardhekar bas given the foremost position to music among all fine arts (as Visuddha kala) because of its quality or power by virtue of which & gense-Impression attracts a person independently of any meaning " 25
Samgadeva, the author of Samgita-Ratnakara which is a well-known treatise on Musio, bas classified Music in two types namely Gandharva and Gana 6 Gandharva Sangita was the music of Gandharvas and bad an age-old tradition while Gang is the music of the people on this earth and is sung in the Des-ı Ragas. To-day, music is classified in three classes. viz. classical, light classical and light Again it is divided into vocal and instrumental types. Bharatamuni has mentioned these two varletios 10 bis Natyafastra 17 Both these varieties can be used in pare as also in applied form. Instruments are fourtold as stated by Bharata, namely
23 श्रुत्यनन्तरभावी यः स्निग्धोऽनुरणनात्मकः । स्मतो रञ्जयति श्रोतृचित्त सस्वर उच्यते ॥
-Samgeta Ratnakara, 1-1-24. 24 ततः शुद्धाः स्वराः सप्त यिकृता द्वादशाप्यमी | Sahgrta Ratnakara 3-3-24.
श्रुतिभ्यः स्युः षड्जर्षभगांधारमध्यमाः । पञ्चमो धैवत चाय निषाद इति सप्त ते ।
तेषां संज्ञा सरिगमपधनीत्यपरो मताः । Ibtd- 1-3-23 25Arts and Man, by Dr. B.S. Mar dhekar (Popular Prakasan, Bombay) p.67-On
mediums! Also see hu article on "Poetry and Aesthetic Theory” p 90 in Arts and
Man where he has compared value of sound in Poetry and music 26 रणकस्वरसन्दर्भो गीतमित्यमिधीयते । गान्धर्व गाममित्यस्य भेदद्वयमुदीरितम् ॥१
अनादिसम्प्रदाय यद्गन्धर्वै सम्प्रयुज्यते । नियतं श्रेयसो हेतुस्तद्वान्धर्व जगुर्बुधाः ॥२ यत्तु वाग्गेयकारेण रचितं लक्षणान्वितम् । देशीरागादिषु प्रोक्त तद्गानं जनरञ्जनम् ॥
-Sangita Ratnakara Iy, 27 दूयधिष्ठानाः स्वराः वैणाः शारीराश्च प्रकीर्तिताः ।-Natyatāstrq,-XXVIII 2,
