India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s14.2

c8.s14.2

MUSIC, A ŚILPA—In Pāṇini's days music was regarded as an art (*śilpa*). Not only instrumental music as cymbals, tabor, (IV.4.55-56) but also dance (III.1.145) and vocal music (III.1.146-47) are mentioned under the category of *śilpa*. In the *Jātakas* also music is a *sippa*.