Sangita  Sangita (Devanagari: , IAST: ), also spelled Samgita or Sangeeta, refers to "music and associated performance arts" in the Indian traditions. According to Guy Beck, the root "saṃ-" implies "combining, coming together, convergent wholesome blending, unison" in the context of musical arts. "Sangita" connotes any form of singing with music, harmonious recitation or chorus singing in particular. In some medieval era literary genre such as the Puranas and poetic texts such as "Kathasaritsagar", a related term "Sangita-shastra" and "Sangita-vidya" mean the "art, science or knowledge of singing and dancing with music". According to Alison Arnold and Bruno Nettl, the modern term music fails to capture the historic sense of "Sanskrit "sangita" and Greek "mousike"". In the Indian tradition, the term "sangita" includes melodious singing, rhythmic dancing, instrumental music, classical, provincial, ritual chanting and incidental forms of music-related performance arts. "Sangita" is broadly categorized as consisting of three interrelated knowledges: "gita" (vocal music, song), "vadya" (instrumental music), and "nrtya" (dance, movement). These ideas appear in the Vedic literature of Hinduism such as in the "Aitareya Brahmana", and in early post-Vedic era Sanskrit texts such as the "Natya Shastra", "Panchatantra", "Malvikagnimitra" and "Kathasaritsagara". A stringed instrument is described with proportional lengths in "Jaiminiya Brahmana" and "Aitareya Aranyaka", and these are compared to poetical meters. It is referred to as "Gandharva Sangita" in the ancient Hindu texts, whose leader is mentioned to be the Vedic sage Narada – the author of seven hymns of the "Rigveda". The Hindu goddess Saraswati in revered in these texts as the source and patron of "sangita". Some important Sanskrit manuscripts relating to "Sangita" include "Sangita Ratnakara", "Sangita Ratnavali", "Sangita Ratnamala", "Sangita Darpana", "Sangita Siromani" and "Sangita Sagara".