A Comparative Study of Some of the Leading Music Systems of the 15th, 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries c3.3

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According to this, the date works out at Shaka year 1082 Some of our music scholars are of opinion that the date is more or less doubt ful, and in support of their view they rely on the following internal evidence supplied by the work Lochana Kavi quotes from another poet Vidyapati, who, it is believed, lived about the end of the fourteenth century A.D The late Raja S M Tagore in his Universal History of Music tells us that Vidyapati was in the service of Shiva Singh the Raja of Mithila in the latter half of the fourteenth century A.D Copper plate evidence also goes to show that a Rajah of Mithila named Shiva Singh gave a jahagir to the poet Vidyapati in the year 1399 A.D Unless it can be proved that this Vidyapati is not the same as that from whom Lochana quotes, we must uphold the contention of the scholars who doubt the correctness of Lochana's date Another point these scholars lay stress on is that Lochana in his Tarangini mentions clearly Mahomedan Ragas like 'Imam' and 'Farodast', which ragas, they argue could not have become so popular about the Shaka year 1082 when the work purports to have been written Lochana in the above sloka gives some astronomical details, but as I have not been able to ascer- what the reference really means, I am unable to fix the date fre them. Hrdaya Narayana Deva, the author of Hrdaya Prakasa and Hrdaya Koutuka quotes from the Tarangini. These two last named treatises, were written about the year 1660 A.D.