The Music of Hindostan c13.s2.86
The Music of Hindostan c13.s2.86
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c13.s2.86
Poetry, then, bases the verse on the unit of (1) the syllable (akṣara¹), less or more fixed, and (2) the time-length (mātrā) treated as the basis of equivalent combinations. Music similarly has two clearly defined stages, when time was reckoned (1) by akṣara and (2) by mātrā.