The Body of the Musician

Kitada, Makoto:
The Body of the Musician : An Annotated Translation and Study of the Piṇḍotpatti-prakaraṇa of Śārṅgadeva's Saṅgītaratnākara / Makoto Kitada. - Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] : Peter Lang Verlag, 2012. - 346 S. - (Welten Süd- und Zentralasiens = Worlds of South and Inner Asia = Mondes de l'Asie du Sud et de L'Asie centrale ; 3)
Hochschulschrift. Zugl.: Halle, Univ., Philosophische Fakultät I, Diss., 2006
ISBN 978-3-0343-0319-4 (Printausgabe)
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Beschreibung
The Sangitaratnakara («The Ocean of Music») written by Sarngadeva in the 13th century is the most important theoretical work on Indian classical music. Its prologue, the Pindotpatti-prakarana («The Section of the Arising of the Human Body»), deals with the Indian science of the human body, i.e. embryology, anatomy, and the Hathayogic heory of Cakras. The sources of this work are found in the classical medical texts (Ayurveda) such as Caraka, Susruta and Vagbhata, the Hathayogic texts as well as in the encyclopaedic texts (Purana). After philologically analyzing the mutual relation and background of these texts, the author demonstrates the reasons why the human body is described in this musicological work. His investigation reveals the Indian mystic thought of body and sound. This study, although an Indological one, is an attempt to answer the universal question what music is, i.e. how music is created in the human body, what the effect of music on the human body is, and what music aims at. The second half of the book consists of a translation of the original text of the Pindotpatti-prakarana, including commentaries, with plenty of annotations. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Preface. 7
Abbreviations. 9
Preliminary remark on citing śloka-s. 11
PROLOGUE. 13
   1. Saṅgītaratnākara (SR) and Ṡārṅgadeva. 13
   2. Two Commentaries: Kallinātha’s Kalānidhi and Siṃhabhūpāla’s Sudhākara. 15
   3. Piṇḍotpattiprakaraṇa of SR. 16
   4. Studies on Piṇḍotpattiprakaraṇa: SHRINGY 1999 and FUNATSU 1991. 17
   5. Meditation of sound. 19
   6. The validity and nature of the statements of the SR. 25
   7. On my translation method. 27
   8. Philosophical matters. 27
ON THE EDITIONS OF THE SR. 29
SITUATING THE TEXT. 31
   1. Introduction. 31
   2. Comparison with the two parallel texts. 44
   3. The body and music. 84
   4. Embryology, asceticism and music: Yājñavalkyasmṛti and SR. 95
   5. Comparison of the human body with the musical instrument in Indian literature. 100
   Situating the text: Appendix I. 109
   Situating the text: Appendix II. 115
ENGLISH TRANSLATION. 117
   On my translation method. 117
   Remarks on the English translation. 118
SECTION: ARISING/ORIGINATION OF THE [HUMAN] BODY (PIṆḌA). 120
Bibliography. 319
Index. 341

Autor
Makoto Kitada (北田信) studied linguistics and indology at Tokyo and Halle Universities. Since 2011 he lectures at Osaka University (Section for Urdu). Makoto Kitada is a research fellow of the Eastern Institute, Tokyo. His research interests are South Asian languages and literature, such as Urdu, Bengali, and Sanskrit. He plays Hindustani music (Sarod) and is interested in the musical aspect of oral literature. Profile page (Japanese), profile page (English).

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