The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c6.86

c6.86

¹⁸ The Sangíta Darpana gives a totally different meaning to murchana, describing the murchanas as the permutations produced by a method somewhat like change ringing; the number of murchanas being the continued product of the number of notes employed. Hence, from a grâma of seven tones we get 5,040 different murchanas. The method of producing these permutations is called “ Kundameru” by native musicians.