The Music of Hindostan c13.s3.97

c13.s3.97

The Hindostani *Tāls* are very much the same in practice as those of the Carnatic. The usage in different parts of Hindostan varies a good deal, as it does with the *Rāgs*, and it is difficult to be at all sure of more than the commonest. But as these are remarkably like those described as the commonest in the Carnatic, there is little doubt that the underlying idea is the same in both—the poetical metre. The following table gives them as corresponding to the Carnatic list: