Historical Development of Indian Music: A Critical Study c8.52

c8.52

After Bharata, Kohala, Yāṣṭika, Durgāśakti, Dattila, Śārdula, Mataṅga and other musicologists formulated many new types of melodies. Especially in the fourth-seventh century, there was a new revival in Indian music, with the evolution of numerous sophisticated regional and tribal tunes. Some of the foreign non-Aryan tunes like śaka, śakatilaka, śaka-miśrita. turuṣka, turuṣka-toḍi, turuṣka-gauḍa, pulindikā etc. were included into the Aryan stock. The śakarāga was the national tune of the Scythians. Yāṣṭika and Mataṅga have discussed about five kinds of regional type of gītis and they were; śuddhā, bhinnā or bhinnakā, vesarā, gauḍa and sādhārita. These types of rāgagītis were known by their respective tunes or rāgas.