The Music of Hindostan c15.75

c15.75

Scale. In the accompanying list of authorities for the *Sāman* scale the first six are ancient, the last four modern; the two sets are separated by something like twenty centuries. The list is probably not complete; there is no indication of place of origin. They are collated on two assumptions: (1) that the words *kruṣṭa*, *prathama*, &c., name the same note wherever they occur, that is, that *kruṣṭa*, for instance, was not at different periods applied to two different notes, and (2) that the two identifications of the *Sāman* names with the notes of the secular scale by authorities III, VII, VIII, and X are to be trusted. If either of these assumptions should be shown to be wrong the evidence would have to be reconsidered.