Svara Varisai-s in Saṅgīta Pradāyini

The Tradition of Indian classical music has been exhaustively preserved and documented in the form of manuscripts, treatises, publications, translations, and commentaries written over centuries. These sources trace the historical evolution of various musical concepts and practices, providing invaluable insights in diverse languages such as Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi and so on. One such work written in Telugu language is ‘Saṅgīta Pradāyini’. Saṅgīta Pradāyini is an early music publication which contains theoretical and practical aspects of Karṇātaka music. The current article mainly focuses on the basic and advance svara exercises given in the publication, ‘Saṅgīta Pradāyini’.