[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [A Comparative Study of Some of the Leading Music Systems of the 15th, 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.bhatkhande-comparative) › c12.17 # A Comparative Study of Some of the Leading Music Systems of the 15th, 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries c12.17 A Comparative Study of Some of the Leading Music Systems of the 15th, 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries c12.17 - **Language:** English ### [c12.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.bhatkhande-comparative.c12.17) The reader can easily see from this that these ancient writers considered their srutis to be based upon a standard sruti ratio In other words, they understood the srutis, to rise in pitch in geometrical progression Pandit Somnath then proceeds to locate his vikrita swaras thus: इति सप्रोक्ताः शुद्धा विकृतान् सैव वच्मि सहनाम्ना । साधारणंतरश्च श्रुति श्रुती चेत्य गो मस्य ॥ - [Previous: c12.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.bhatkhande-comparative.c12.16) - [Next: c12.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.bhatkhande-comparative.c12.18) - [Up: c12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.bhatkhande-comparative.c12) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.bhatkhande-comparative.c12.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.bhatkhande-comparative.c12.17) · Pramāṇa