RULE id: bindu (52)
SOURCE: brihaddesi_sharma_1992 (vol_II_p168, vol_I_p012, vol_I_p055, vol_I_p066, vol_I_p082)
SCOPE: technical_term family, Brihaddesi (Mātaṅga ~750 CE)
CONCEPT: bindu
STATUS: empirical

ASSERTIONS:
  - [definition] Bindu is a right-hand technique on the viņā producing damped tones, with a vocal equivalent in singing
    -- p.vol_II_p168 "Bindu is also one of the techniques of the right hand on the viņā that is not open-stringed (SR VI. 78 cd, 79 ab). Here it must signify a vocal technique for pr"
  - [relation] Bindu is produced from nāda
    -- p.vol_I_p012 "नादादुत्पद्यते बिन्दुर्नादात्"
  - [definition] Bindu occurs when, after staying long on a svara and touching its higher octave briefly, one suddenly returns to the lower register
    -- p.vol_I_p055 "Where, having 'stayed' (stopped) for a long time at one svara in the form of șadja and the like, having touched the octave36 (tara) of that like fire and having"
  - [structural] Bindu is exemplified by the svara sequence sā-sa-sā
    -- p.vol_I_p055 "As - sā sa - sā. Thus is (ends) bindu."
  - [structural] Bindu is a prastara consisting of repeated statements of the same note (ṣadja)
    -- p.vol_I_p066 "(6) sā sā <sup>126</sup> sā, bindu"
  - [definition] In Tantra, bindu is the concentrated form of energy
    -- p.vol_I_p082 "In Tantra the concentrated form of energy is identified with bindu (lit. point or drop)"
  - [relation] At the aural level, bindu manifests as the anusvāra
    -- p.vol_I_p082 "At the aural level bindu manifests as the anusvāra ( nasal sound marked with a dot on the line)"

CITED_RULES:
  - kalā  (definition)
  - nāda  (relation)
  - anusvāra  (relation)
  - prastāra  (structural)
  - svaras  (definition)
  - svaras  (structural)
  - tāra  (definition)
  - viņā  (definition)

CONFIDENCE: empirical
PROTECT: false