A Comparative Study of Some of the Leading Music Systems of the 15th, 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries c12.60

c12.60

Five of these will have to be rejected because they coincide with three vikrita and two shuddha swaras already counted. In other words they overlap these latter. Thus:—तीव्रतर रि, तीव्रतम रि, तीव्रतम ग, तीव्रतर ध, तीव्रतम ध are identical with शुद्ध ग, साधारण ग, शुद्ध म, शुद्ध नि, कौशिक नि respectively. Real vikritas according to the Pandit are those notes which have independent sounds. The remaining ten being unobjectionable, it may be said that the system of Raga Vibodha is based on seventeen swaras, (seven shuddhas and ten vikritas) only. The following chart will clearly show how Somnath placed his swaras on the srutis.