The Music of Hindostan c9.s1.44

c9.s1.44

The only thing this establishes is that the *śrutis* were not equal in size. They are of three sizes: (1) the difference between the major and minor Tone, the *pramāṇa śruti*, twenty-two Cents; (2) the difference between the minor Tone and the Semitone, seventy Cents; and (3) the difference between the Semitone and the *pramāṇa śruti*, ninety Cents. He does not tell us in what order these diminutions are to be made; and if we took him literally, and made them successively downwards from each note we should get quite a wrong idea of his scale.