Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c13.s5.1

c13.s5.1

The people of ancient India loved music as we have already seen Not only kings and nobles were surrounded with musicians and dancers but even ordinary people loved singing and dancing or hearing and witnessing others doing so. The seventy two arts, referred to above, included the arts of dancing (*naṭṭa*), singing(*gīta*), vocal music (*saragaya*), instrumental music (*vāditta*), drum music (*pukkharagaya*), and timing in music (*samatāla*), which shows that music and dancing were widely cultivated in ancient India.²³