The Music of Hindostan c15.31

c15.31

The rhythm is, as in Plain-song, determined by the words, which decide where it will be appropriate to take breath. The two versions of the first hymn of the *Sāmaveda* which follow are from A. C. Burnell (*Ārṣeyabrāhmaṇa*, Introd., p. xlv) and Śeṣagiri Śāstrī (loc. cit.); and the notation is in accordance with the directions of the Gānas (the Sāmaveda text as actually sung) as they understood them, checked in the first case by the verification of a musician, and in the second by the usage as the writer knew it: Burnell, Ārṣeyabrāhmaṇa, p. xlv.