Sangita Ratnakara

drawn upon profusely, as authority, by all subsequent writers on the subject. Perhaps it has superseded many earlier works and obscured them; and they have disappeared from the field. But it has never been superseded till now.

A complete edition of the work was undertaken by Kalivara Vedāntavāgis'a and S'ārada Prasāda Ghosha from Calcutta with the commentary of Siṃhabhūpāla A 14th-century royal commentator also known as Bhūpāla some time back, and the first volume containing the Chapter on Notes original: "Svarādhyāya"; the first section of the work dealing with sound and musical pitches was published in 1879 from the New Arya Press, Calcutta.¹ In the Preface to that edition², it had been promised that the remaining portions too would be published; but it does not seem that any further progress had been made in that direction. At that time they had access only to a very defective copy of the commentary of Kallinātha A 15th-century commentator at the Vijayanagara court, which, as they say, was “very unintelligible, owing to numerous clerical mistakes.” ³ As for Siṃhabhūpāla’s commentary appearing in this edition, there is no indication of the source of the manuscripts. The Preface does not mention the point at all. Evidently they must have had access to a complete copy, since they had projected a complete edition. The manuscripts known to us and utilised for this edition will be noticed in the course of this introduction.

The text of the Ocean of Music original: "Saṅgītaratnākara"; the definitive 13th-century Sanskrit treatise on Indian music and dance with the commentary of Kallinātha has been edited in the Anandasrama A famous research institute and publishing house in Pune

¹ The book has become very rare and difficult to obtain.
² p. ii.
³ p. iv.