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

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It would thus appear that the poet was born in Dhavalpur in the Abhir district, (Malwa). He was a Brahmin by caste and his gotra was Knshnatra. His mother's name was Swapnabhava and his father's name was Janardan Bhatta. Janardan Bhatta was given by the Emperor Shah Jehan, the title of Sangeeta Raj. According to research scholars, Anupa Singh ruled in Bikaner from 1674 A. D. to 1709 A. D. Bhava Bhatta's own title was "Anushtupa-Chakravarti-Sangeeta-Rai." The whole material of the Swaraadhyaya of Anupa Vilas has been borrowed from the Sangeeta Ratnakara of Sharang Deva. The author does not give us the impression that he clearly followed the theories of the Ratnakara. He quotes from several other treatises both anterior and subsequent to the Ratnakar. It is said by some of our modern scholars that Pandit Bhava is more of a compiler than an original author. To some extent, I think they are right. In the Anupa Vilas, the author, after describing "Nada" and "Sangeeta" in the usual way, copies the whole of the पिंडोत्पत्तिप्रकरण from the Ratnakara, under the name शरीरभावप्रकाश. Next he deals with the theory of the productions of 'Nada'. Then comes the description of the 22 srutis and the swaras based on them. He brings in a lot of unnecessary detail from the commentary of Kallinath too, on the sruti-swara, Prakarana. Srutis are divided into two classes "gatraja", and "yantraja".