Re: musings

Posted by Raga on December 08, 2007 at 09:40:54:

In Reply to: Re: musings posted by mallika on December 08, 2007 at 03:31:38:

thx mallika,
for your kind offer to help, I have some PC system crashes to overcome and will mail you as soon as I am able to.

Perhaps let me explain my problem in simple words here, maybe some specialist in the forum can offer some advise as well?
Some scholars find that BN shastra was written from -400 BC onwards, I also read that some believe there were lost BN scriptures before that, some websites claim BN is 5000 years old but give no source for their information. But there runs a thread through these scriptures that first BN is connected to Urjvasi (wife) dancing in the court of Indra (husband). This maybe regarded as fictional myth. The scripture also states that Indra was pleased by the recitation of the seven yatis. Many years ago I reconstructed these yatis ( melodies in which the ragas maybe seen) from the scriptures, which presupposes the lost knowledge of the ancient 22 shruties and I did research on Indra and Urjvasi, so to believe in the truth of the story. Urjvasi is still a title of excellence given to a BN dancer by official India, ig. recently to Urjvasi Shobhana.

May aim for the last decade was to find out what dance form might have been employed to the ancient yatis. I think it could have been a form of Thillana ? Maybe someone here knows how yatis are performed today, so that I can trace the way backwards. Pls ask me for more information if you don t understand a term or you have questions related. It is a complex issue and takes time to ponder, more than one book can contain.