The Music of Hindostan c9.s1.45

c9.s1.45

What that scale is we discover from his account of the *jātis*. There are seven modes (*mūrchanā*) of each of the two *grāmas*, i.e. fourteen in all; but only seven of these fourteen are in practical use under the name of *jātis*, species. In the following table each mode is given as from a common tonic. The constituent units of the *Sa-grāma* (4 3 2 4 4 3 2) are successively added, and each *mūrchanā* begins on a different one of these notes. The same is done for the *Ma-grāma*, giving another set of seven *mūrchanas*, each of which differs in one note, and only one, from some mode of the *Sa-grāma*.