RULE id: वर्णा (1829)
SOURCE: brihaddesi_sharma_1992 (vol_I_p051)
SCOPE: technical_term family, Brihaddesi (Mātaṅga ~750 CE)
CONCEPT: वर्णा
STATUS: empirical

ASSERTIONS:
  - [enumeration] Varņas are four in number: sthāyin (steady), sancārin (circulatory), ārohin (ascending), and avarohin (descending)
    -- p.vol_I_p051 "After this (now) are demonstrated the varnas 1 (patterns of melodic movement) that are verily four only; viz. sthāyin (steady), sancārin (circulatory), (118) ār"
  - [definition] A varņa is the singing (gita) in which equal svaras remain unimpeded, manifesting varņa in a given textual unit (pada)
    -- p.vol_I_p051 "Where svaras are equal3 and stay unimpeded4, the gita5 (melodic rendering) born out of them, that is the manifestor of varņa (unit of melodic movement) in a giv"

CITED_RULES:
  - gita  (definition)
  - sañcārin  (enumeration)
  - varņa  (definition)
  - varņa  (enumeration)
  - avarohin  (enumeration)
  - pada  (definition)
  - sthāyin  (definition)
  - sthāyin  (enumeration)
  - svaras  (definition)
  - varṇa  (enumeration)
  - ārohin  (enumeration)

CONFIDENCE: empirical
PROTECT: false