1064 There ought to have been a place for two notes between Hindusthani Suddh Dhaivat and Hindusthani Komal Nishad or, Carnatic Chatusriti dhaivatam and Kaisiki nishAdam!

A well-meaning friend of mine has sent me an Email containing quite a long piece of article about 22 sritis in Indian Music. Unfortunately, I could not study them in depth (I am sad that I could read it only with a shallow mind). I furnish below the links to the article by Shri Subhash Kak. Both Shri Subhash Kak and my friend are learned gentlemen. I respect their views. Links to the articles of Shri Subhash Kak:

1. Click here to go to: http://indiafacts.org/author/subhash-kak/
Indology Click here to go to Indology | 18-05-2018.

I have sent a tentative, following reply to my learned friend:

ybrao-a-donkey's personal view, with no intent to impose on others

1. All this does not explain the absence of additional two notes between Hindusthani Suddh Dhaivat and Hindusthani Komal Nishad. (Karnatic Equivalents, between chatusriti dhaivatam and kaisiki nishAdam). Reason: Every element of Indian Music seems to have descended into India from Mesapotamia and Bactria or even probably Balkans-Baltics. Had Indians themselves originated the Notes, they would have taken care of symmetry of 16 Notes and probably with at least 24 or 26 shritis..

2. Given Creative Freedom to themselves, Indian Musicographers and Composers, might have even developed a system of 'Decimal distances of frequencies' and designed their own Notations and Musical Instruments. Anyway, I am glad that we are globalised both in respect of Indian Music and Indian Native Medical System Ayurveda.

Question: How can you say that the Ancient Indian Native System of Medicine 'Ayurveda' is a globalised / or global system?

Ans: Many Indians believe that Ayurvedic System of Medicine is entirely native to India. But ybrao-a-donkey, being a donkey views differently. Indian Ayurveda's three doshAs (vAta=air, pitta=fire, kapha=phlegm) and rakta dOsha = blood quality level--polluted or clean, can be found even in Medieval European Medicine. These are called Four Humors. As proof, I quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humorism

"... The four humors of Hippocratic medicine are black bile (Greek: μέλαινα χολή, melaina chole), yellow bile (Greek: ξανθη χολή, xanthe chole), phlegm (Greek: φλέγμα, phlegma), and blood (Greek: αἷμα, haima), and each corresponds to one of the traditional four temperaments. A humor is also referred to as a cambium (pl. cambia or cambiums). Based on Hippocratic medicine, it was believed that the four humors were to be in balanced proportions with regard to amount and strength of each humor for a body to be healthy.

The humoralist system of medicine was highly individualistic, for all patients were said to have their own unique humoral composition. Moreover, it resembled a holistic approach to medicine as the link between mental and physical processes were emphasized by this framework. From Hippocrates onward, the humoral theory was adopted by Greek, Roman and Islamic physicians, and became the most commonly held view of the human body among European physicians until the advent of modern medical research in the nineteenth century. The concept has not been used in medicine since then.

Notes: Black bile above = vAta (wind). Yellow bile = pitta (fire. Especially jaTharA agni, fire in stomach, fire in liver.

Further references: http://www.kidzworld.com/article/29547-medieval-medicine-the-four-humors.

https://www.facebook.com/ayurvedhamoolikaarahasyaalu/posts/2027905757491710. Notes: This is in Telugu language.

Besides all the above, there was the practice of using leaches for cleaning impure blood, existed both in Indian and European Systems.

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