A Comparative Study of Some of the Leading Music Systems of the 15th, 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries c6.s4.31

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The word "sthiti" in the last line has to be carefully noted. Pundarika means by it the original or shuddha place of the swara. He uses the word in contradistinction to the word "gati", by which he means the vikriti of the note. When a swara becomes vikrita, it leaves its original place or "sthiti" and moves. Thus the word "gati" happily represents the idea of change. The shuddha scale being southern, the vikritis of the swaras will necessarily be the higher "gati" of the shuddha swara. Each "gati", will be measured by a sruti. For instance, gandhara rising one sruti will be called "trigatika", when it rises two srutis, it will be supposed to have gone up two "gatis" and so forth. The shuddha place of the gandhara, is as we know, two srutis above the shuddha rishabha.