A Comparative Study of Some of the Leading Music Systems of the 15th, 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries c12.28

c12.28

Translation — No doubt three more vikrita swaras will result from this arrangement, but it will be observed that pancha sruti 'ni' and shat-sruti-ri are in no way different to shuddha 'ga' and sadharana 'ga' already noticed. The same observation will be made in the case of पंचश्रुतिक ध & षट्श्रुतिक ध which are no other than the sounds of shuddha 'ni' and kaishika 'ni'. Although this is so, it is convenient to retain these new swara names in practice. Somnath then compares these last named vikritas with those of the other music schools which use the vikrita terminations 'tivra', 'tivratara', and 'tivratama'. He says