The Music of Hindostan c13.s2.87

c13.s2.87

¹ Lit. ‘imperishable’, in the sense perhaps of the ‘irreducible minimum’; Sanskrit syllables are, of course, one consonant (simple or compound) plus one vowel (simple or diphthong). Cf. Aristot. Met. xiii. 1. 7, p. 1087 b, Basis hē syllabē. Aristoxenus knows nothing of the syllable as a unit of rhythm.