The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c6.38

c6.38

3rd. Suddhasvâra gives one s'ruti to Nishâda. Here Nishâda is rendered one s'ruti flat. Suddhasvâra is not the name of a note, but is explained to me to be a term applied to a note possessing its full complement of s'rutis. It may, therefore, in this case be applied to Dhaivata; for although it may give one s'ruti to Nishâda, yet it gains one from Panchama, and still retains four complete s'rutis. If these conjectures are admitted, and we compare it with the Madhyama-grâma, to which these changes evidently refer, it will stand thus:—