A Comparative Study of Some of the Leading Music Systems of the 15th, 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries c6.s4.36

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Observation.—The srutis five, six, eighteen, and nineteen are barred because in the southern scale, the shuddha ri and shuddha dha are supposed to be the lowest sounds of those notes. Ri and dha when shuddha, are always three sruti notes. No swaras therefore, are allowed between sa and shuddha ri and pa and shuddha dha. The provision in the last verse is intended to avoid the difficulty of having a four sruti note and a three sruti note standing on the same fret of the vina in samvadi relationship. We find a similar provision in the Raga Vibodha of Somnath.