[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [A Comparative Study of Some of the Leading Music Systems of the 15th, 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.bhatkhande-comparative) › c5.1 # A Comparative Study of Some of the Leading Music Systems of the 15th, 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries c5.1 A Comparative Study of Some of the Leading Music Systems of the 15th, 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries c5.1 - **Language:** English ### [c5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.bhatkhande-comparative.c5.1) The next treatise we discuss is the Sangita Parijata of Ahobala. It is one of the most remarkable and popular works dealing with the northern or Hindustani system of music. It is a printed book now and a copy of it can be had anywhere at a very small cost. It is the opinion of some of our scholars that Ahobala was originally a southern pandit, but one subsequent to some in northern India, and a little prior to others. We shall not discuss the author's date in any detail here as we find in the Sangita Parijata some references which are not common in the southern system of Music and not at all in the Northern Music. The system of Music however as described in the book, is undoubtedly the northern. There is no direct evidence to show when Parijata was written. But there is circumstantial evidence to prove that it must have been written about the latter half of the seventeenth century. Sir W. Jones in his Asiatic Collections, Vol I says that Sangita Parijata was translated into Persian by Pandit Dinanath, son of Basudeva in the year 1724 A.D. I have myself seen a copy of the Persian translation in the Royal Asiatic Library. The copy bears the seal of the Curator of Diwani-i-Khas of Shah's Library. We know that Mahomed Shah came to the Throne of Delhi in the year 1719 A.D. Parijata is freely quoted by Bhava Bhatta Pandit in his well known work Sangita Anupa Vilas. Bhava Bhatta's father, was in the service of the Emperor Shah Jehan. Bhava Bhatta himself was in the service of Raja Anupa Singh of Bikaner who was a contemporary of Aurangzeb. There is reason to believe that Ahobala had some acquaintance with the famous southern treatise Raga Vibodha written by Somanatha in 1610 A.D. These facts would go to prove that the Sangita Parijata was written somewhere in the latter half of the 17th Century. - [Previous: c4.s1.60](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.bhatkhande-comparative.c4.s1.60) - [Next: c5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.bhatkhande-comparative.c5.2) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.bhatkhande-comparative.c5) ## Linked texts (2) - [Saṅgītapārijāta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.sangita.sangraha.sangitaparijata) — Ahobilasūri 1600, Sanskrit - [Rāgavibodha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.sangita.raga.ragavibodha) — Somanātha 1584, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.bhatkhande-comparative.c5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.bhatkhande-comparative.c5.1) · Pramāṇa