A Comparative Study of Some of the Leading Music Systems of the 15th, 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries c8.s2.14

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We shall now proceed to consider the three works of Pandit Bhavabhatta, namely Anupa Sangita Vilas, Anupa Ratnakara, and Anupankusha. Bhavabhatta was in the service of the Rathod Rajput King Anupa Singh, the son of Karan Singh of Bikaner. Anupa Singh was a contemporary of the Emperor Aurangzeb. Bhavabhatta's father, Janardan Bhatta was in the service of the Emperor Shah Jehan, the great Mogul-Emperor of Delhi. It is quite possible that during the reign of Aurangzeb, who was not over fond of music, the Court musicians of Shah Jehan, got scattered and Janardan Bhatta or his son Bhava Bhatta took service at Bikaner. Bhava Bhatta in his Anupa Vilasa, mentions his family and residence as follows —

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