The Music of Hindostan c13.s3.52

c13.s3.52

These other times, various forms of three, five, and seven rhythm for the most part, are often regarded as intricate and unaccountable; but in the light of prosody they have a simple explanation. They are best summarized in the Carnatic system, which enumerates thirty-five different kinds as typical; but the principle which underlies them is of indefinite application, and as a fact I saw a book at Bhavnagar which enumerated some hundreds of them. It will be unnecessary to give the names of these thirty-five rhythms, because their names are only a piece of *memoria technica*,¹ or the picturesque ruins of titles whose meaning is long forgotten, and would only confuse us. It will be enough to arrange them in seven ranks and five files, lettering the ranks and numbering the files.