Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.121

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(1) Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society, Vol. IX, pp. 200-310; Vol. X, pp. 31-46. Mr. R. C. Mazumdar in his article ‘Nānya Deva of Mithila,’ (Indian Historical Quarterly, Vol. VII, 1931, p. 679), discusses his date. Following Sylvain Lévi, Mazumdar accepts 1037 A. D. as the date of his accession, and suggests that Nānya Deva must have died before 1154 A. D. Manmohan Chakravartty in his ‘History of Mithila during the Pre-Mughal Period (Journal, Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. XI, 1915, pp. 407-433) discusses the position of general culture during the period. The other outstanding musical composition of the time is Jagaddhara’s Sangita-Sarvasva and the chapters dealing with music in Jyotirīśvara’s Maithil Encyclopædia, Varna-ratnākara.