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The Question of Gramas
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
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In his article on Gandhara Grama that appeared in the issue of October, 1935, of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Mr. A. H. Fox Strangways observed that a particular line in Damodara's Sangitadarpana regarding Ga-Grama, had induced him to visit India thirty years ago. The whole of that article, now under consideration, induces me to revisit the region of the Grama-question.
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page 629 note 1 I italicized the word “my”; for Mr. Fox Strangways inadvertently attributed the editorship to Mr. Venkatrama Sastri, who was responsible only for his Foreword to my edition.
page 630 note 1 Brihad Desi, p. 20.
page 630 note 2 Sangitamakaranda, p. 5; Sangitaratnakara, p. 45.
page 630 note 3 Sangitaratnakara, p. 45.
page 630 note 4 Sadragachandrodaya, p. 6.
page 630 note 5 Ragavibodha (my edition), p. 5.
page 630 note 6 Sangitadarpana, p. 24.
page 630 note 7 Sangitasudha, i, 175.
page 630 note 8 Chaturdandiprakasika, p. 10.
page 630 note 9 Sangitaparijata, p. 9.
page 630 note 10 Anupasangitaratnakara, p. 7.
page 630 note 11 Somanath and Venkatamakhi.
page 630 note 12 As regards the modern writers on Indian music, both Indian and European, almost all of them, not excluding Mr. J. D. Paterson, have been significantly silent on the interpretation of the word Grama as a whole, though they waxed eloquent in speaking about its divisions. I made a special mention of Mr. Paterson because, in 1809, he contributed to the Asiatic Researches, vol. 9, an article avowedly on Gramas wherein he was careful to forget defining that term.
page 631 note 1 Natya Sastra, p. 320.
page 632 note 1 Brihad Desi, p. 22.
page 632 note 2 Sangitamakaranda, p. 7.
page 632 note 3 Sangitamtnakara, p. 47.
page 632 note 4 Sangitadarpana, p. 28.
page 632 note 5 Anupasangitaratnakara, p. 8.
page 632 note 6 Chaturdandiprakasika, p. 11
page 632 note 7 Sadragachandrodaya, p. 6.
page 632 note 8 Ragavibodha, p. 5.
page 632 note 9 Sangitasudha, i, 183.
page 632 note 10 Sangitaparijata, p. 9.
page 632 note 11 Clements's, Introduction to Indian Music, p. 3Google Scholar. N.B.—The modern substitutes of the Grama, Moorchana, and Jati are the Group scale of twelve svarastanas, Mela and Raga.
page 635 note 1 Sangitaparijata, P. 9.
page 636 note 1 Chaturdandiprakasika, p. 11.
page 637 note 1 Music of Hindostan, p. 149.
page 637 note 2 Music of Hindostan, pp. 260–1.