of the Hindus. 



77 



"By the word vddi, fays the commentator, he means the note, which 

 " announces and ascertains the Rdga, and which may be confidered as the 

 " parent and origin of the graha and nyq/a :" this clearly mows, I think, 

 that the ansa mull be the tonick ; and we mail find, that the two other 

 notes are generally its third and fifth, or the mediant and the dominant. In 

 the poem entitled Mdgha there is a mufical flmile, which may illuftrate and I 

 confirm our idea %. 



Anal pat wat pradhanatwad ansafyevetarafwarah 3 

 Vijigiihornripatayah prayanti pericharatam. 



u From thegreatnefs, from the tranfcendent qualities, of that Hero ea^er for 

 " conqueft, other kings march in fubordination to him, as other notes are 

 " fuborJinate to the ans'a" 



If the ansa bethe tonick, or modal note, of the Hindus, we may confident*. 

 ly exhibit the fcales of the Indian modes,, according to So'ma, denoting 

 by an afterifk the omiflion of a note s 



Bhairava : 



Vardti: 

 Medhyamadi 

 Bhairav) : 

 Saindhavi :. 

 Bengali: 

 Ma'lava s 

 To'dz: 

 Gaudit 

 Gondcicrl : 

 Su/rh avail ; 



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dha, ni, fa, ri, ga, ma, pa, 

 fa, ri, ga, ma, pa, dha, w, 

 ma, pa, *, ni, fa, * ga, 

 fa, ri, ga, ma, pa, dha, ni. 

 \ fa, ri, *, ma, pa, dha, * 

 W<*> ri, ga, ma, pa, dha, ni. 

 f W/ » ^a, ri, ga, ma, pa, dha t 

 J ga, ma, pa,'dha, ni, fa, ri. 

 <-'w/, fa, ri, * ma, pa, *. 

 fa, ri, ga, ma, pa, *, nL 

 L not in Soma. 



