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The Gāndhāra grāma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

A. H. Fox Strangways
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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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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 67 , Issue 4 , October 1935 , pp. 689 - 696
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1935

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