The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c12.38

c12.38

The following catalogue of works relating to Indian music has no pretence to completeness; it is merely a list of the names of works and passages written upon the subject. The names of some which contain only allusions that would be of no practical use to the reader have been omitted altogether. Some of the books in the list contain no musical notation, but are nevertheless of great interest to the musical enquirer. An endeavour to notice some of the various Sanskrit works upon music, and in some cases tables of their contents, has been made. It has not been thought necessary to notice each in detail, as for the most part they are written upon a very similar plan, and, as far as arrangement of contents, differ little from each other. These Sanskrit works exist chiefly in manuscript, and are to be found in almost all the libraries—such as those of Tanjore and the Sarasvati Bhandaram of Mysore—attached to the palaces of native princes. Many copies are also to be found in the hands of Pandits and Sanskrit scholars attached to the temples and religious houses throughout India. There are a number of valuable MSS. in the collection of H.H. the Maharajah of Bikanîr. Many too can be found in the Bodleian, the library of the India office, and also in the University library at Cambridge.