[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953) › c8.s14.2 # India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s14.2 India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s14.2 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s14.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.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\*. - [Previous: c8.s14.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s14.1) - [Next: c8.s14.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s14.3) - [Up: c8.s14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s14) ## Cites (1) - [Aṣṭādhyāyī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.vyakarana.astadhyayi-school.astadhyayi.3.1.145) — Pāṇini, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s14.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s14.2) · Pramāṇa