सङ्गीतमकरन्द (देवर्षि नारद - प्राचीन भारतीय सङ्गीत, राग-रागिनी वर्गीकरण व नाद-ब्रह्म)

x INTRODUCTION.
the Gāndhāra Grāma states that it is according to Nārada's
opinion —
यदा धस्त्रिश्रुति षड्ङ्गे मध्यमे तु चतु श्रुति ।
रिमयो श्रुतिमेकैका गान्धारस्त्वसमाश्रित ।
पञ्चति धो निपादस्तु धश्रुतिं सध्रुतिं श्रित ॥ ४ ॥
गान्धारग्राममाचष्टे तदा त नारदो मुनि ।
प्रवर्त्तते स्वर्गलोके ग्रामोऽसौ न महीतले ॥ ५ ॥
सङ्गीतरत्नाकर पृ० ४६
Now this very definition is to be found in this Sangīta Maka-
randa of Narada as follows —
यदा धस्त्रिश्रुति षड्ङ्गे मध्यमे तु चतु श्रुति ।
रिमयो श्रुतिरेकैका गान्धारस्य समाश्रया ॥ ५४ ॥
पञ्चमश्रुतिरेका च निपादश्रुतिसश्रया ।
गान्धारग्राममाचष्टे तदा त नारदोऽब्रवीत् ॥ ५५ ॥
प्रवर्त्तक स्वर्गलोके ग्रामोऽसौ न महीतले ।
सङ्गीतमकरन्द पृ० ५-६
From these circumstances we must conclude that Sangita
Makaranda of Nārada is an older work than the Sangīta Ratnā-
kara and that it was known to S'ārṅgadeva (A D 1210-1247)
Until we get further proof to establish the exact date, we must
hold that Nārada, the author of Sangīta Makaranda lived some-
time in the interval between Mātṛgupta A D 550 and Sārṅga-
deva A D 1210-1247, that is, he must have lived between the
7th and 11th centuries
The Manuscript.
Source of the Manuscript—The present edition of the
Sangīta Makaranda of Narada is based upon one single manuscript
furnished to me by the Central Library of Baroda
The credit of having discovered this rare manuscript is due to
the wife of Mr R Ananta Krishna Shāstry, the officer employed
by the Baroda Central Library for search of Sanskrit manuscripts.
Mr Shāstry, while on an official tour in H E H. the Nizam's
Territory in 1919, was examining Mss in an old Pandit's house
at Gadwāl with his wife when the latter noticed this Ms
Through the kindness of the Hon Sir Stuart Fraser, K. C. S. I ,