A Comparative Study of Some of the Leading Music Systems of the 15th, 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries c6.14

Language: English

c6.14

The Pandit in these verses accepts the ancient view that there are twenty-two sounds, rising one above the other, available in music and known as srutis. Mandra maddhaya and tara are the three seats of sound. Each of these has twenty two srutis. The distribution of the twenty-two srutis among the seven swaras is the same as that in the case of the ancient writers. The names of the swaras are:

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