UNDERSTANDING ？RUT？’S

In this study two aproaches towards understanding ？ruti is examined, one coming out of practice and having a historical importance and the other one being contemporary and mathematical. In this context, the quality of the ？ruties, which divide the octave in Hindustani music into 22 intervals, is revealed first through the demonstration described in Nātya？āstra, an ancient Indian manuscript, and then harmonic series dependent calculations of an important name in contemporary ？ruti research, Dr. Vidhyadhar Oke