A Comparative Study of Some of the Leading Music Systems of the 15th, 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries c11.5

c11.5

According to this the actual date comes to be Shravan Shuddha 10th, of the year named SADHARANA. The work, therefore, is more than 350 years old. Barring the commentary of Kallinatha on the Sangeeta Ratnakara, no other complete work is at present available to show the development of music between the Ratnakara and the Swara Mela Kalanidhi, and we are therefore not in a position to say anything definite about the music of that period. There is, however, some evidence in the commentary of Kallinath to show that he was a southern musician and that his music system was not different from that of Rama Amatya, and the other subsequent writers. We shall come to that point after we finish with the Swara Mela Kalanidhi. Rama Amatya divides the book into five chapters, namely: