The Music of Hindostan c10.53

c10.53

This does not account, however, for all the varieties, and the subject needs more investigation; still it carries us some way. All three kinds (‘pure’, ‘mixed’, and ‘altered’) are known to Bharata, though he names them differently. The ‘mixture’ of dissimilar tetrachords he calls the ‘twilight of the *Rāg*’ (*jāti-sādhāraṇa*). For the ‘altered’ *Rāg* he gives no name, but he explains¹ that the *Ma-grāma* can be formed directly, as we should say ‘modally’, from the *Sa-grāma*