Sangita Ratnakara

will appear very soon. Unfortunately we have to hold up printing any further matter on account of difficulty in securing the needed paper. It is proposed to publish the remaining portion in a few convenient volumes and the English translation will appear in a separate volume for the entire text.

The appendices added in this volume from page 293 illustrate certain details given in the text. Of these the <term>Svaraprastāras<note>Permutations and combinations of musical notes</note></term> from page 297 and the next one on p. 394 are given at the end of the whole work in the <note>The Anandasrama Sanskrit Series is a famous collection of Indian texts published in Pune.</note>Anandasrama edition; since the matter relates to the first <term>adhyāya<note>chapter</note></term>, it is given at the end of this volume containing the <term>adhyāya</term>. It is hoped that these and the other appendices which were prepared by Pandit Subrahmanya Sastri, and the index of half verses will be of help to the readers in making use of the book. As is well known, the <term>Saṅgītaratnākara<note>Literally "The Ocean of Music," a 13th-century treatise that is the foundation of Indian musicology.</note></term> is divided into seven <term>adhyāyas</term> dealing with: The first <term>adhyāya</term> containing the <term>Svara<note>Musical notes or sound</note></term> is divided into eight sections, called <term>prakaraṇas</term> and they deal with:

1. Summary of the subject matter
2. The origin of the human body This section describes the physiological basis of sound production.
3. Sound, its locations, microtones, notes, classes, families, presiding deities, seers, meters, and emotional flavors.
4. Scales, modes, sequences, and melodic variations.