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The Ashtavakra Gita audiobook, with narration and original music interludes by Davrus.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Title Music
00:49 Introduction
05:30 Chapter 1
12:42 Chapter 2
20:48 Chapter 3
25:39 Chapter 4
28:07 Chapter 5
30:29 Chapter 6
32:40 Chapter 7
35:03 Chapter 8
37:20 Chapter 9
41:02 Chapter 10
44:26 Chapter 11
47:59 Chapter 12
51:28 Chapter 13
54:44 Chapter 14
57:00 Chapter 15
1:04:23 Chapter 16
1:08:51 Chapter 17
1:15:58 Chapter 18
1:48:37 Chapter 19
1:51:59 Chapter 20
1:57:29 Ending Credits

This version of the Ashtavakra Gita was updated from a public domain source. The original Sanskrit text was translated by John Richards, who placed his translation in the public domain in 1994. We have made a number of updates and corrections to the original text without changing the meaning of the source content, which can be found at WikiSource. Updates are detailed in the Introduction, starting at 00:51.

All music was composed and played by Davrus, the creator of this Meditative Instruments YouTube channel. The flute you hear in this video is a replica of an ancient Pueblo Indian flute (aka Anasazi) discovered in a cave in the 1930's and carbon-dated between 599-769 CE. Mine is a 6-hole rim-blown wooden instrument, about 30 inches long, constructed by Craig Paterson @TempleWindFlutes. It is very challenging instrument to learn and produces an unusual musical scale, roughly equivalent to the 8-tone Spanish/Jewish scale, or Phyrigian Dominant. To create the musical chapter interludes, I recorded 22 original improvisations, each about two minutes long, and then trimmed each one down to about 50 seconds for the video. Recorded with a RODE NT1 microphone, MOTU 828 audio interface, and the Reaper DAW.

Narration was recorded with the same RODE NT1 mic, a Zoom H6 field recorder, and post-processed in the Reaper DAW.

The videos used for each chapter interlude were sourced from Pixabay, a community of creatives sharing royalty-free images, videos, audio and other media. All content is released by Pixabay under the Content License, which makes it safe to use without asking for permission or giving credit to the artist - even for certain commercial purposes. That said, I have made the effort to ensure each content creator is credited here:

* Thumbnail image: DuongNgoc DoanThi
* Janaka & Ashtavakra vector artwork: OpenClipart-Vectors
* Intro & CH1 videos: Christian Bodhi
* CH2 video: Zameen Aasman
* CH3, CH4, CH5, CH7, CH9 & CH10 videos: Joseph P Hackney
* CH6 & CH20 videos: Shayea Kim
* CH8 video: David Foxx
* CH11 & CH12 videos: Jonathan Fahrny
* CH13 video: Alexander Huber
* CH14, CH15, CH16 & CH17 videos: Matthias Groeneveld
* CH18 & CH19 videos: Dla Biebrzy
* Ending Credits video: Monk Vadim

Finally, I'd like to give a big thanks to Keith Harancher of @kmhrecordingstudio5900 who lent me his invaluable experience as an audio & video engineer. This is my first video, and Keith helped me understand the technical stuff, for which I'm extremely grateful.

Video, vocals & music produced and performed by Davrus of Meditative Instruments.
Published by Lakehouse Group, LLC., copyright 2023.

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