Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.120

c6.120

The next important text is that attributed to king Nānyadeva who is supposed to be a prince of a later branch of the Rāṣṭra-kūṭa (Karṇāṭa) dynasty and who, according to Jaysāwal¹, reigned in Mithilā between 1097 and 1133 A.D. His capital was at Simarampur (modern Simraon) now lying within the border of Nepal. Professedly written as a commentary (bhāṣya) on Bharata’s Nāṭya-śāstra, his work Sarasvati-hṛdayālaṃkāra² is in a way an independent