Ancient music scales- Shadaja, Madhyama, and Gandhar Gramas

a heptatonic scale, i

The basic gamut of notes employed in the early music-tradition. The ancient tradition was stated to have employed three grama-s, beginning from either shadja, madhyama, or gandhara note. Later, the third grama, based on gandhara reportedly went out of vogue as it required moving in an usually high range of notes.

Village

A Grama is a local governing body in the state of Karnataka in India.

pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America