The Music of Hindostan c9.s2.22

c9.s2.22

The Carnatic scale has, then, a chromatic basis; and the Greeks held that the chromatic preceded the diatonic.³ The latter we found in Hindostan taking shape in three, according to one explanation, but at any rate in two *grāmas* which differed from each other by one *śruti*, precisely as the ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ varieties of the Greek diatonic differed by one *diesis*. Here we have analogues, therefore, for two of the Greek genera. We may even trace the third genus, the enharmonic, in *Rāgs* like *Toḍi*, *Multānī*, and others. The Greek enharmonic scale, expressed in *śrutis*, appears thus