Author: R. Sathyanarayana
Born: 9-5-1929
Bio: Mahamahopadhyaya Dr.R.Sathyanarayana has won International acclaim as an authority on Indian music and dancing.  He is broad based on several disciplines of Physical Sciences, Humanities and Indological shastras.   He is a noted speaker on several Indological disciplines such as Indian philosophy, Yoga, Tantra, Mantra, Advaita Darshana, Upanishads and related subjects.   He also lectures and writes on aesthetics, education, Sociology, psychology, psychoacoustics, historiography, cultural anthropology, synisthesia related to music and dance.   His areas of special interests are textual criticism, pedagogy, therapy, and recreation of ancient and medieval forms from authentic ancient source materials, exegesis and interpretative techniques in historical and textual studies in relation to Indian music and dancing.  He is acclaimed as an authority on research methodology and interdisciplinary extrapolations on music and dancing.  He has received many academic distinctions, honorific titles, awards etc., in India and abroad and is intimately associated with many institutions of higher learning and of the arts.  He is a prolific author, research scholar, public speaker, teacher, music composer and broadcaster.   His publication exceed some 20000 pages in print in the form of critical edition, translation, text critical notes and commentary of seminal treatises on Indian music and dancing, Monographs, original works, Papers in National and Foreign Journals etc, His works on Indian dancing include Studies in Indian Dance, Nartananirnaya [in three volumes], Bharatanatya: A Critical Study, Devadasis of Karnataka etc, His works on music include Sangeetha Rathnakara, Veenalakshana Vimershe, Karnatakadalli Sangeetha, Karnataka Sangeetha Vaahini, Music Criticism : Principles and Practice, Chaturdandiprakashika, Makhihrdaya, Karnataka Music as Aesthetic Form and Dharmika Samskaragalalli Sangeetha.  His research work is acclaimed for comprehensive, original, authentic source material, critical and creative approach, precise documentation as well as functional and contemporary interpretation.

	Dr. R.Sathyanarayana belongs to the shishya parampara   the Saint Music composer Sri Tyagaraja.   He travels abroad frequently to interpret traditional Indian Culture.  He is acclaimed for his systematic contributions to the interdisciplinal and intradisciplinal bases of modern Indian musicology and danceology.  His life and work is documented in several National and International Biographies