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INTRODUCTION
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Bṛhaddeśi and more so its Puranic author Matanga Muni have been well
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known in Sangītasāstra for more than one millenium. The text has been
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profusely quoted in texts of Sangītaśāstra upto the 17th century. But for two or
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three centuries it had gone into oblivion. There was no access to it in the
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nineteenth century and the first quarter of the present century, until Pt. K.
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Sāmbaśiva Śāstrī edited and published it in the Anantaśayana Granthāvalī No. 94
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(Trivandrum Sanskrit Series) in 1928. The following excerpts from his
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introduction would throw light on the MSS retrieved by him.
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"I would add, before concluding, that the present work though incomplete
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has been published on account of its rare merit and that the manuscript of this
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work was Travancore's contribution to the exhibition held at the All India
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Conference of Scholars and Artists at Indore in 1921.
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"The edition of the work is based on two palm-leaf manuscripts in Malayalam
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characters obtained from the poonjar Raja, North Travancore. One of these
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manuscripts marked as ka is exceedingly worn out; it is about four centuries old
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and wanting in the first leaf as well as four leaves from the 41st. The other
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manuscript marked as kha is fragmentary, ending with a portion of the
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Jātiprakaraņa*.
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"The work ends abruptly saying इदानीं कथियध्यामि बाह्यस्य निर्णयो यथा (p. 154) and so we
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conclude that there are subsequent parts of the text yet to be discovered."
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The text, available to Pt. K. Sāmbaśiva Śāstrī, is incomplete and it has not
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been possible to discover another manuscript in the last seventy years, that
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could accord access to the complete text.
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In 1980 I suggested to my student Sri Anil Bihari Beohar to take up a critical
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study of Brhaddesi including reconstruction of the text on the basis of citations
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or references available in various texts from Abhinava-Bhāratī of Abhinavagupta
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to Rāga-Vibodha of Somanātha. He took up this subject for his doctoral research
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and started collecting and collating citations and references. As his supervisor,
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I continued to struggle and grapple with the problems of reconstruction of the
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text on the basis of the material collected by him, in collation with the
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Trivandrum edition. Sri Beohar was awarded the Ph.D. degree in 1986. Almost
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immediately after this Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Member Secretary of the Indira
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Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, conceived the publication of
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a series of Kalāmūlaśāstra (Fundamental Texts on the Arts). It was decided that
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so far as Sangītasāstra was concerned, Dattilam and Brhaddesī should be in the
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first priority.
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*We have recorded the reading of these two MSS on the testimony of the editor of the
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Trivandrum edition referring to them as MS A and MS B for ka and kha respectively.
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