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Title

Sāṃgītadarpaṇa

Authors

• Harivallabha, 18th cent

Call number

Ms. Indic 8
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5443622
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5443622

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

In Hindi

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.
   
• 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.
   

Extent

1 25 x 22 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīsāṃgītadarpaṇasamāptam // [sa]ṃbat 1844 (f. 59r).

Subjects topical

• Hindu music
• Hindustani music--India
• Music--India--Philosophy and aesthetics
• Music--India--History and criticism

Genres

• Commentaries
• Diagrams
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 53r — Table, f. 53r
• fol. 53v — Table, f. 53v
• fol. 54r — Table, f. 54r
• fol. 54v — Tables, f. 54v