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The Gāndhāra grāma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Extract

PRAVARTATE svargaloke grāmo 'sau na mahītale. That scale exists in heaven, not on earth.

It was this sentence in the Sañgītadarpaṇa (i, 72) that determined me thirty years ago to visit India. Not that I hoped exactly to solve the problem, but the music must be interesting, I thought, which had learnt so much that it had quite forgotten.

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1935

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