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Sāṃgītadarpaṇa, 1787.
सांगीतदर्पण
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Harivallabha, active 18th century.
- Language:
- Hindi
- Subjects (All):
- Rāṭhī, Dāmodaradāsa, 17th century. Sāṃgītadarpaṇa.
- Rāṭhī, Dāmodaradāsa.
- Hindu music.
- Hindustani music--India.
- Hindustani music.
- India.
- Music--India--Philosophy and aesthetics.
- Music.
- Music--India--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- commentaries
- diagrams
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (62 leaves) : paper ; 25 x 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- 1787.
- १७८७.
- Language Note:
- In Hindi (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Treatise discussing the aesthetics of music and the identification of various musical notes with different Hindu deities (such as Śiva and Agni); this Hindi work comments on and paraphrases the Sanskrit work of the same title Sāṃgītadarpaṇa by Dāmodara, and should not be confused with same; includes some numerical diagrams.
- Notes:
- Title from title colophon (f. 59r).
- Written in 16-18 lines per leaf.
- 62 leaves foliated [i-ii], 1-59, [i], upper left verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīsāṃgītadarpaṇasamāptam // [sa]ṃbat 1844 (f. 59r).
- Dated saṃvat 1844 (1787) (f. 59r).
- Mistakes covered blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
- Non-Latin script record.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Indic 8
- OCLC:
- 779548185
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