The Music of Hindostan c9.s1.38

c9.s1.38

¹ The *Harivaṃśa* (fourth century A.D.) speaks with enthusiasm of music composed in the *āgāndhāragrāmarāga*, ‘the scale which comes down to *gāndhāra*,’ i.e. which, if taken upwards, begins on *Ga*. The *Mahābhārata* speaks of ‘the sweet *Gāndhāra*’, and this implies a mode or scale, since no note is sweeter than another until it has a context.