[INDOLOGY] Query

[Ales Petrocchi]

Dear Patrick,

you find mentioned the seven “gītikāni” for instance in the Dattilam:
approx. verses 160-233.

See also the English translation  of the Dattilam by Te Nijenhuis  p.
420-421.

The Ṛg, Gāthā etc. are mentioned in the NATyazAstra.

The passage is quoted in:

A History of Indian Literature: Scientific and technical literature

 Di Emmie te Nijenhuis​,   p. 7​.



Yours,

Alessandra.

On 28 June 2015 at 15:12, Patrick Olivelle <jpo at uts.cc.utexas.edu> wrote:

> I turn to the paṇḍitapariṣad to educate me in what look like technical
> terms from the science of music. Curiously, in the Yājñavalkya Smṛti
> (3.112–116) there is a passage about how a person proficient in music and
> singing can attain the highest Brahman. Why this passage is there to begin
> with is obscure to me. But at verse 113 we have the mention of seven
> “gītikāni”:  Aparāntaka, Ullopya, Madraka, Prakarī, Auveṇaka, Sarobindu,
> and Uttara
>
> Then at 114 it says that these should be sung (probably some kinds of
> chants: Ṛg, Gāthā, (or Ṛggāthā) Pāṇikā, Dakṣavihitā, and Brahmagītikā.
>
> Viśvarūpa has this comment:  imāny aparāntakādīni . . . sapta gītikāni
> gānaśāstrād evāvaseyāni. A hint as to where these come from, but not
> helpful beyond that.
>
> Aparārka, a bit more helpfully: aparāntikādayo bhārataśāstroktā
> gītaprakāraviśeṣā brahmajñānābhyāsahetor geyāḥ.
>
> Thank you all for any leads or explanations on this.
>
>
> Patrick
>
>
>
>
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