He and his brother, Jyotiram, were adopted by their maternal uncle, Pandit Natthulal, a disciple of Ustad Ghagge Nazir Khan.
[6] He served as a court musician to Maharaja Pratap Singh in the Kashmir Darbar.
He left after some friction with the Dewan and invited by the Nizam of Hyderabad Osman Ali Khan to be his court musician.
[7] On 24 April 1944, Pandit died unexpectedly for unknown reasons on the day he was supposed to become the court musician of Osman Ali Khan, the Nizam of Hyderabad.
These include: Pandit's foremost disciplines were his three sons, Maniram, Pratap Narayan, and Jasraj.