Rāga-s in Sabhārañjani – An Overview

The Indian Music tradition has been preserved and documented in the form of several lakṣaṇagrantha-s, source texts, translations of treatises and commentaries on texts that were written through the ages, which gives the historical evolution of various concepts pertaining to the tradition. They were written in various languages such as Dēvanāgarī, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Marathi and so on. One such text written in the language Telugu, that serves as an important documentary work is “Sabhārañjani''. Sabhārañjani is a compilation of the concepts pertaining to Music and Dance where he explains about Carnatic and Hindustānī music, Rāga-s, Tāḷa-s, Instruments, Nāyikā-Nāyaka characteristics, Nāṭyābhinaya, characteristics of Vocalist and Dancer etc.