Newar music

[1] The traditional musicians worship the Newar god of music and dance Nasah Dyah.

Maestro Seturam Shrestha recorded the song first on a gramophone disc in Kolkata in 1908.

Shantikaracharya taught it to Vandhudatta Vajracharya and Shree Gunadattacharya, who wrote down the teachings to form the basis of classical music of Newars.

Music accompanied most of the traditional epics and plays written in Sanskrit and Nepal Bhasa.

The earliest discovered treatise on Newa music is a manuscript called Sangit Chandra Grantha.

It was written by King Jagatjyoti Malla of Bhaktapur and his minister Vanshamani Ojha.