Ocean of Music, Volume 1

of Govinda Dīkṣita,1 which is published by the Music Academy Madras.2 For the commentary of Hamsabhūpāla, 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 Simhabhūpāla. Simhabhūpāla was a 14th-century king and famous commentator on the Sangita Ratnakara; Hamsabhūpāla appears to be a clerical error in the records. For the commentary by Kumbhakarna, there is not enough evidence.4 For Chandrikā The "Moonlight" commentary 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 an inscription at the end of a manuscript providing publication details, but Govinda Dīkṣita's son Venkatamakhin says that the work was by his father in the following verses of his Caturdandiprakāśikā:

original: "चेव्वयाच्युतभूपालरघुनाथप्रपञ्चिते । अस्मत्तातकृते ग्रन्थे प्रोक्तम् , श्लोकान् लिखामि तान् ॥"

in the edition of the Music Academy, Madras, No. 3. The verses quoted are found on page 155, verses 440–443 in the edition of the Music Academy, Madras.
2 No. 1
3 page 274
4 Dr. V. Raghavan also mentions this commentary in the Journal of the Music Academy, Madras, Vol. iv, page 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 Footnote 4 on page 853. Oppert mentions this as No. 6258.
6 Journal of the Music Academy, Madras, Vol. iv, page 19.