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An Evening Measure in the Second Half

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An Evening Measure in the Second Half

Kedara is a small section of the later Gurus with a presence of the bhagats, and an evening measure in the wider Indian tradition. The Granth places it among a run of shorter sections in the second half of the volume.

The ordering of the rags is where the Granth is most silent about itself. The sequence is fixed, identical in every manuscript and every printed copy, and departing from it is not done. But the volume states no principle for it, and the sequence does not follow the classical groupings of measures, does not run by hour or by season, does not order by length and does not order by the Guru who first used each measure.

Reconstructions have been proposed and none has been generally accepted. The honest position is that a fixed order exists, that its fixity is essential to how the volume is used, and that the reason for the particular order is not recorded.

The atlas therefore records the sequence as a fact and declines to explain it. Where a scholarly account offers a principle, it is offering a reading, and a reference work that adopts one reading and prints it as the reason is doing exactly the thing this project exists to avoid: converting an interpretation into a fact by the act of stating it plainly.

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