The Music of Hindostan c8.s1.48

c8.s1.48

And this scene is relieved by one in Kalidāsa’s Mālavikāgnimitra (fifth century) of a mediocre performance, where two musicians are rivals, and one brings forward a pupil who performs a great feat in singing—a piece in four-time (caturpada vastu) and Andante (madhya laya)—the ‘young lady of Rio’, in fact, fifteen centuries ago.