The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c6.37

c6.37

2nd. Panchama loses one s'ruti to Gandhâra. I am at a loss to know how this can take place. I rather suspect an error in the text, and would propose to substitute Dha, the sixth note, instead of Gandhâra. The three s'rutis of Panchama make the interval between the fifth and sixth; by losing one, it is reduced to a semitone; but it cannot lose this one to Gandhâra, which is the third note. There are but two methods of reducing this interval to a semitone—one by raising the fifth note, the other by rendering the sixth flat. But here the interval between the fourth and fifth remains unaltered. It must in this case be done by making Dha, the sixth note, flat; or, in the language of Hindu music, by giving one of Panchama's s'rutis to Dhaivata.