A Comparative Study of Some of the Leading Music Systems of the 15th, 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries c8.s2.25

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All these forty-two vikritas, are based on the twenty-two srutis which form the basis of the system We have already seen that Ahobala had twenty-nine swara names Bhava Bhatta goes a step further, and adopts forty-two swara names Strangely enough, he omits to say anything about these vikritas in his raga descriptions