The Music of Hindostan c15.s1.24

c15.s1.24

We have other hints which point to a correspondence between the Greek and Indian scale. The Aryans came into India from the North. Gāndhāra is the same word as Kandahar, which as late as Alexander's time (fourth century B. c.) included Afghanistan and the Panjab, with a capital near Peshawar. The Gāndhāra-grāma is the oldest of the three grāmas, and may preserve an early Aryan tradition. The Aryans spoke Sanskrit, which is closely allied to Greek. Evidence of the correspondence of the Greek and Indian systems has been accumulating in these pages; and that the fundamental scale of Greece, the Doric tetrachord, should be identical in form with the oldest form of Indian tetrachord would be more striking evidence than any. But it is unfortunately not more than circumstantial.