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also greatly thankful to Mr. N. Ramanathan, Research
Scholar of the Deptt. of Musicology, B. H. U. and presently,
Lecturer in Musicology, Indirā Saṅgīta Vishvavidyālaya,
Khairagarh, who has been kind enough to go through my
press-copy including the index, and has offered many
valuable comments and suggestions to improve the translation
in its form and content. He has also been kind enough to
go through the printed file and much of the credit for the
preparation of errata goes to him.
Since Saṅgīta-ratnākara incorporates a chapter on human
embodiment (Piṇḍotpatti), which indeed is a unique feature
of Śārṅgadeva’s work, (and he could possibly attempt it
because he was himself a medical man as stated by him),
special care has been taken in preparing the translation and
the commentary as well as the notes of this chapter; and I
am extremely grateful to Prof. Priyavrata Sharma, Head of
the Deptt. of Dravyaguṇa in the Instt. of Medical Sciences,
B. H. U., who has been kind enough to go through the Ms.
of the whole chapter and suggest some technical modifi-
cations. I am also thankful to Dr. K. C. Gangrade, formerly
Reader in Anatomy in the Institute of Medical Sciences and
presently Reader in Sitar in the Department of Instrumental
Music, B. H. U., who has also been kind enough to glance
through this chapter and to offer some technical suggestions
for the improvement of the draft translation.
My thanks are due to Shri Ritwik Sanyal, a research
scholar of the Deptt. of Musicology, for assisting in the pre-
paration of the Press-copy of the Ms. Many thanks are
due to Shri Gopal Lal Bhatt and Pandit Maheshwar Jha,
Assistants of the Research Section of the Deptt. of Musico-
logy for assisting in proof-reading and the preparation of the
Śloka-index respectively. Also I am thankful to Shri Kapildeo
Giri for assisting in writing the Ms. of the Sanskṛit text and
Shri Chhannulal, Senior Clerk of the Deptt. for typing the
Ms. and the Press-copy of the work neatly. I am also
thankful to Shmt. Vimla Musalgaonkar, the Sanskrit teacher

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of the Deptt. of Musicology, for her constant moral support
and encouragement in the accomplishment of the difficult
task.
Above all, I am grateful to the University Grants
Commission for granting a Research Fellowship for this
project and thus providing the initial impetus to this
publication.
Our thanks are also due to the publishers of this book,
Motilal Banarsidass for readily accepting the work of publi-
cation and for seeing it through the press expeditiously. Last
but not the least, I am thankful to Tara Printing Works,
Varanasi, for providing every facility for printing the work in
the desired manner and in a short period of time.
Dated 17.11.1977
Deptt. of Musicology,
Banaras Hindu University,
Varanasi—221005
R. K. Shringy