The Music of Hindostan c15.6

c15.6

¹ Haug (Ueber das Wesen, &c., p. 74) appears to accept the view that svarita from Svara (like getönt from Ton) means ‘accentuated’. But (1) this looks like a false analogy from the double meaning of Ton, and (2) svarita must surely be connected with svāra, which meant, technically, a downward slide through the svaras, i.e. the svarita was that note to which this slide was attached.