Ocean of Music, Volume 1

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 Svaraprastāras Permutations and combinations of musical notes from page 297 and the next one on p. 394 are given at the end of the whole work in the Anandasrama edition; since the matter relates to the first adhyāya chapter, it is given at the end of this volume containing the adhyāya. 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 Saṅgītaratnākara literally "The Ocean of Music," a definitive 13th-century Sanskrit text on Indian music and dance is divided into seven adhyāyas chapters dealing with:

The first adhyāya containing the Svara is divided into eight sections, called prakaranas, and they deal with:

1. Padārthasaṅgraha Summary of topics
2. Piṇḍotpatti The origin of the human body/embodiment
3. Nāda (Sound), sthāna (Resonance locations), śruti (Micro-tones), svara (Notes), jātī (Lineage), kula (Family), daivata (Deities), ṛṣı (Sages), chando (Metre), and rasa (Emotional essence).
4. Grāma (Scales), murchanā (Modes), krama (Sequences), and tāna (Melodic variations).