The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c5.5

c5.5

From early periods, however, many learned and elaborate treatises (mostly in MSS.) upon the art yet remain. The later of these show that even then music had passed through several stages of transition. Since the Sangíta Pârijâta, which is believed to be one of the latest of these Sanskrit works, had been written by Ahobala, two separate schools or systems of music have arisen and are now known by the names of Hindustani and Karnâtik. The Karnâtik appears to have been elaborated as a distinct system subsequent to the advent of the Aryans to the South of India. The two systems, although sprung from the same origin, have since undergone independently considerable changes, and are now totally distinct from each other.