The Music of Hindostan c11.9

c11.9

¹ And this makes it probable that it is not the true explanation. There is another, quite different. The *Graha* is the note which an individual singer chooses for his *Sa*. Thus if a bass voice chooses C, a tenor would take F, and a soprano B♭. The *Graha* is therefore the ‘clef’. And this seems to be in complete agreement with the statement in Bharata that the *Graha* is identical with the *amśa*. It seems probable that *graha* originally meant the upper and *nyāsa* the lower extremity of the tetrachord (*aṅga*), and that these meanings have been forgotten.