Representations of Music and Musicians in the Sanskrit Epics: The Rāmāyaṇa and the Mahābhārata

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Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI:10.1177/0376983620968004

Kaustubh Gaurh

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Abstract

The aim of this study is to understand the ‘idea’ of music that existed in early India in the first millennium bce. Observing the historiographical trends that have emerged in the historical studies of music, it can be seen that there is scarcity of sources to study the kind of music that was practised in this time period. But the approach presented here deals with the traces of music in the literary sources (the Sanskrit epics: the Rāmāyaṇa and the Mahābhārata) which cover the representations of music and musicians. This would help us infer the nature of musical thought that evolved in early India. 1 The objective is to study the relationship between an art form and the society, by looking at ‘art in society’, not ‘society in art’ to see how music was conditioned by early Indian social factors. 2 After discussing the sources used for the study, a range of philosophical, material and societal aspects are addressed by looking at how the societies in early India engaged themselves with music.

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梵文史诗中音乐和音乐家的表现:Rāmāyaṇa和Mahābhārata

这项研究的目的是了解公元前一千年早期印度存在的音乐“理念”。观察音乐历史研究中出现的历史编纂趋势，可以看出，研究这一时期实践的音乐类型的资源稀缺。但这里提出的方法是处理文学来源(梵文史诗:Rāmāyaṇa和Mahābhārata)中音乐的痕迹，这些文献涵盖了音乐和音乐家的表现。这将有助于我们推断早期印度发展的音乐思想的本质。1目的是研究艺术形式与社会之间的关系，通过观察“社会中的艺术”，而不是“艺术中的社会”，来了解音乐是如何受到早期印度社会因素的制约的。在讨论了用于研究的来源之后，通过观察早期印度社会如何参与音乐来解决一系列哲学，物质和社会方面的问题。

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Indian Historical Review Multiple-

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