Historical Development of Indian Music: A Critical Study c8.41

c8.41

Further he mentions: “Deśi, on the other hand, deriving from diś, to ‘indicate’, and hence diś, ‘region’ or ‘quarter’, is ‘local’; cf. deśam niviś, to ‘settle’ in a given locality, deśa vyavahāra or deśācāra, ‘local custom’, ‘way of the world’, and deśya, ‘native’. * * loka, ‘world’, is etymologically Latin locus, a place defined by given conditions ; the laukika, ‘mundane’ is literally ‘local’; * * From the celestial or solar point of view, deśī is thus mundane, human and devious, as distinct from super-mundane, divine and direct, * * . We think it has now been made sufficiently clear that the distinction of mārga from deśī is not necessarily a distinction of aristocratic and cultivated from folk and primitive art, but one of sacred and traditional from profane and sentimental art”.²