The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c6.15

c6.15

The system of music described in the Pârijâta differs from that of the Ratnâkera, in that it admits of greater intervals than a tone or four s’rutis, and of less intervals than a semitone or two s’rutis, being, therefore, capable of forming numerous enharmonic scales. All the notes, except the first and fifth, are occasionally shifted above or below, and the fourth is never omitted in the scale.⁵