Essay name: Arts in the Puranas (study)
Author:
Meena Devadatta Jeste
Affiliation: Savitribai Phule Pune University / Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute Pune
This essay studies the Arts in the Puranas by reconstructing the theory of six major fine arts鈥擬usic, Dance, Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, and Literature鈥攆rom the Major and Minor Puranas. This thesis shows how ancient sages studied these arts within the context of cultural traditions of ancient India.
Chapter 1 - Music in the Puranas
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Purana are sadja, Risabha, Gandhara, Madhyama, Pa帽cama,
Dhaivata and Nisada which we find in the Naradi Siks膩 and
also in the Matyas膩stra. 56 The Vayu Purana has referred to
the three traditional gramas viz. Sadja grama, Madhyama gr膩ma
and the Gandhara grama. I have already mentioned that as
G膩ndh膩ragr膩ma had gone out of practice at the time of Bharata's
Natyasastra, Vayu Purana does not give any further explanation
of the nature of these three gramas and starts to describe
the Murcchanas of these three gramas.
The seven mure chan膩s of the madhyama grama given by
the Vayu Purana are as follows :
(1) Sauviri
(2) Harinasva
(3) Kalopanat膩
(4) Suddhamadhyam膩
(5) Margi
(6) Pauravi
(7) R艣yak膩. 57
The Natyasastra also referred to these seven murcchan膩s of
the madhyama grama. But there is Hrsyaka instead of Rsyaka.
Naradi siksa admits the twenty-one murcchanas, Seven of the
Gods, seven of the Pitaras and seven of the sages. The
description of the murcchan膩s of the Madhyama-grama as given
by the Naradi siksa, differs from that of the Natya sastra and
of the Vayu Purana and the Visnudharmottara Purana. As told
by the Naradi siksa, the seven murcchan盲s of the gods are
