| AABh | Abhinavagupta: Abhinava-bhāratī (commentary on BhNŚ), c. AD 1000 |
| BhNŚ | Bharata: Nāṭya-śāstra, early centuries AD |
| DD | Dattila: Dattilam, early centuries AD |
| K- | Kaśyapa: lost work(s), title unknown; mid-first millennium AD |
| KI | Kuḍumiyāmalai Inscription, seventh or eighth century AD |
| KKN | Kallinātha: Kalā-nidhi (commentary on ŚSR), fifteenth century |
| KPM | Bhāḍkhande, V. N.: Kramik pustak mālikā, Hathras 1953-8 |
| KSR | Kumbhakarṇa: Saṅgīta-rāja, c. 1450 |
| MBD | Mataṅga: Bṛhad-deśī, late first millennium AD? |
| MBDv | The verse portions of MBD |
| MBDp | The prose portions of MBD |
| NGDMI | New Grove dictionary of musical instruments, ed. S. Sadie, London 1984 |
| NNŚ | Nārada: Nāradīyā Śikṣā, mid-first millennium AD? |
| NSHA | Nānyadeva: Sarasvatī-hṛday-ālaṃkāra, c. 1100 |
| PSS | Pārśvadeva: Saṅgīta-samayā-sāra, twelfth-thirteenth centuries |
| Ś- | Śārdūla: lost work, title unknown; late first millennium AD? |
| SMO | Someśvara: Mānas-ollāsa, c. 1150 |
| SSS | Siṃhabhūpāla: Saṅgīta-sudhākara (commentary on ŚSR), fourteenth century |
| ŚSR | Śārṅgadeva: Saṅgīta-ratnākara, first half of thirteenth century |
| YSĀS | Yāṣṭika: Sarv-āgama-saṃhitā (extract preserved in MBD), late first millennium AD? |