The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c12.118

c12.118

There is a Persian work entitled Tohfuht-ul-Hind, by Mirza Khan. This work contains information extracted from the Sanskrit works Râganâva, Râgadarpana, and Subhavinodha. Of the present existence of these three works I have never been able to discover traces; still, it is to be hoped that they may eventually be brought to light. A copy of the Râgadarpana, with two works entitled Shams-ul-aswat and Hazar Dhrupad, was brought by Sir W. Jones to England; but these, with other MSS. that he is said to have deposited in the library of the Royal Asiatic Society, cannot be traced.