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Purana and Itihasa (epic history)

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index

Uttaramandrā (उत्तरमन्द्रा).—A loud but slow manner of singing; the presiding deity of this is Dhruva.^*

• * Vāyu-purāṇa 86. 40, 56.

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The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.

Shilpashastra (iconography)

Source: archive.org: Illustrations of Indian Music and Dance in Western Indian Style

Uttaramandrā (उत्तरमन्द्रा) refers to a type of mūrchanā (melodic mode), and its illustration as a Goddess (according to 15th-century Indian art) is as follows.—The colour of her body is golden. She holds a vīṇā (Indian lute) with both hands. Her bodice is of yellow colour with golden borders. The lower garment is dark-green with a design of black colour. She wears a trouser with a design of crimson-colour and dots of blue colour. Her scarf is of yellow colour witha design of black colour.

The illustrations (of, for example Uttaramandrā) are found scattered throughout ancient Jain manuscripts from Gujarat. The descriptions of these illustrations of this citrāvalī are based on the ślokas of Vācanācārya Gaṇi Sudhākalaśa’s Saṅgītopaniṣatsāroddhāra (14^th century) and Śārṅgadeva’s Saṅgītaratnākara (13^th century).

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Shilpashastra (शिल्पशास्त्र, śilpaśāstra) represents the ancient Indian science (shastra) of creative arts (shilpa) such as sculpture, iconography and painting. Closely related to Vastushastra (architecture), they often share the same literature.

Natyashastra (theatrics and dramaturgy)

Source: Wisdom Library: Nāṭya-śāstra

Uttaramandrā (उत्तरमन्द्रा) refers to a mūrchanā (modulation) based on the ṣaḍja-grāma, according to the Nāṭyaśāstra chapter 24. The fourteen mūrchanās mentioned in this work refer to the regulated rise or fall of sounds through the grāma (musical scale), which represents a scale consisting of a number of tones (svara).

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Natyashastra (नाट्यशास्त्र, nāṭyaśāstra) refers to both the ancient Indian tradition (shastra) of performing arts, (natya—theatrics, drama, dance, music), as well as the name of a Sanskrit work dealing with these subjects. It also teaches the rules for composing Dramatic plays (nataka), construction and performance of Theater, and Poetic works (kavya).

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Uttaramandrā (उत्तरमन्द्रा).—a loud but slow manner of singing. °मन्द्राद्या (mandrādyā) a. particular मूर्च्छना (mūrcchanā) in music.

Uttaramandrā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms uttara and mandrā (मन्द्रा).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Uttaramandrā (उत्तरमन्द्रा):—[=uttara-mandrā] [from uttara > ut-tama] f. (uttara) a loud but slow manner of singing, [Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa; Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra]

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Uttaramandra in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Uttara, Mandra.

Starts with: Uttaramandradya, Uttaramandramurchana, Uttaramandramurchhana.

Full-text: Uttaramandradya, Murchana, Uttaramandramurchana.

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The Brahmanda Purana (by G.V. Tagare)

Chapter 61 - A dissertation on Music < [Section 3 - Upodghāta-pāda]

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Satapatha-brahmana (by Julius Eggeling)

Kāṇḍa XIII, adhyāya 4, brāhmaṇa 2 < [Thirteenth Kāṇḍa]

Kāṇḍa XIII, adhyāya 4, brāhmaṇa 3 < [Thirteenth Kāṇḍa]

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Natyashastra (English) (by Bharata-muni)

Part 2 - The Ancient Indian Theory and Practice of Music < [Introduction, Part 2]

Chapter XXVIII - On the Instrumental Music (ātodya)

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