A Comparative Study of Some of the Leading Music Systems of the 15th, 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries c5.22

c5.22

Observation.—He means to say that these ten swara names disclose only five Swaras. Thus we have only seven vikritas left out of the twenty-two. Out of these seven again, Komal 'ga' and Komal 'ni' will have to go out. They correspond with tivra 'ri' and tivra 'dha' respectively which sounds are not to be used in any of the ragas at all. This leaves only five real vikritas. Ahobala thus uses twelve notes only in his raga descriptions.