How is your work different from ‘others’ who had addressed this issue of ‘22 Srutis in music earlier?
Others’ have attempted to synthesize Musical ‘Notes’ by using multiplying ‘Panchama’ or ‘Madhyama’ with fractions ‘3/2’ or ‘4/3’ or 81/80 etc. Some have attempted to shift the ‘Tonic’ and generate additional ‘Notes’. In my work, I have adopted a radically ‘different’ approach that makes my finding ‘unique’. In brief, the basis of my approach is as under: – • Pythagoras’s doctrine states that ‘fractions’ used in music should be the simplest possible. He had further guided that these should be drawn from the Nature and not synthesized. • Sumerians (4000 B.C.) attached great importance to ‘simple-fractions’ by worshipping them as their gods. Example: ANU – 1/1, SIN – ½, ENKI – 2/3, ENLIL – 5/6 and so on. Subsequent civilizations always considered Natural Numbers between ‘1’ and ‘12’ as ‘sacred’; they rejected Numbers between ‘13’ and ‘18’ as ‘unholy’. I was curious to know as to what was so special with Natural Numbers between ‘1’ and ‘12’. Much to my surprise, I found that I could formul
