A Comparative Study of Some of the Leading Music Systems of the 15th, 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries c4.s1.51

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Observation.—This explanation of the author easily solves the difficulty. The shuddha dhaivata which is to be placed between panchama and tara 'sa' will have to be so placed that it will stand as a proper samvadi or the fifth to the shuddha rishabha. The shuddha rishabha has already been definitely fixed and so there will be no difficulty in fixing the position of the shuddha dhaivata. The reason why the author could not fix the exact length of the wire for the dhaivata appears to be that he could not obtain a convenient division of the string for that swara. We see that he has adopted the simplest way of dividing the wire into two or three parts. Such a division would not have given him the right place of the shuddha dhaivata. He knew that his reader could easily determine the position of the dhaivata with the help of the shuddha rishabha, dhaivata being the samvadi of the rishabha.