A Comparative Study of Some of the Leading Music Systems of the 15th, 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries c12.12

c12.12

Evidently, 4, 7, 9, 13, 17, 20, 22, were also the "adhara-srutis" of the shuddha swaras of Somnath. The method adopted by Somnath for placing the twenty two srutis on the key board of the vina, differed from that of Sharangdeva pandit. The latter put twenty-two separate wires each representing a sruti, on his vina Somnath put twenty two frets under the wires of his vina and made them produce the intended twenty two srutis The principle of determining the sruti was the same in both cases. The whole length of the wire produced the fundamental note 'mandra-shadja', and the frets below the wire produced the remaining srutis when the wire was pressed against them