Sangita Ratnakara

of Govinda Dīkṣita,¹ which is published by the Music Academy, Madras.² For the commentary of Haṁsabhūpāla, Dr. Krishnamacharyar gives no reference. This must be the commentary mentioned in the Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts from Gujerat, Karachi, Sindh and Kandesh.³ Evidently this is a mistake for Siṁhabhūpāla Siṁhabhūpāla was a 14th-century king and author of the 'Sudhakara' commentary on the Sangita Ratnakara. For the commentary by Kumbhakarṇa, there is not enough evidence.⁴ For Chandrikā The Moonbeam also Dr. Krishnamacharyar gives no reference and simply says that it is anonymous.⁵ Dr. V. Raghavan says that he has information that there are two commentaries, one called Kaustubha Named after a divine jewel in Hindu mythology and another only a paraphrase of the text.⁶ According to Dr. Krishnamacharyar, Kaustubha

¹ This is given as by King Raghunātha of Tanjore, in the colophon The concluding statement in a manuscript regarding its publication or authorship; but Govinda Dīkṣita's son Veṅkaṭamakhin says that the work was by his father in the following verses of his Caturdaṇḍīprakāśikā The Illumination of the Four Pillars of Music.

original: "चेव्वयाच्युतभूपालरघुनाथ्नृपाङ्किते । अस्मत्तातकृते ग्रन्थे प्रोक्तम् , श्लोकान् लिखामि तान् ॥"
In the work composed by my father, which was dedicated to the Kings Cevvaya, Achyuta, and Raghunātha, these things were said; I shall write those verses here.

in the edition of the Music Academy, Madras, No. 3. The verses quoted are found on p. 155, verses 440-443 in the edition of the Music Academy, Madras.
² No. 1.
³ p. 274.
⁴ Dr. V. Raghavan also mentions this commentary in the Journal of the Music Academy, Madras, Vol. iv, p. 18. In this article he mainly gives the information he had himself gathered in his researches; but he records also what information he had received from others. This is a point of the latter variety.
⁵ Foot-note 4 on p. 853. Oppert Gustav Oppert, a 19th-century Indologist mentions this as No. 6258.
⁶ Journal of the Music Academy, Madras, Vol. iv, p. 19.