NANO ELEMENTS RESONANCE TO SHRUTI

By Maramraju Venkata Manasa and Tula Vikram

Many elements are intricately entwined with our bodies and make vital functions like respiration, circulation, etc. possible. For instance, Cobalt is vital in making red blood cells, while iron allows those cells to carry oxygen and other important chemicals to the body's tissues. Calcium not only strengthens bones but also plays a role in muscle, nerve function and blood clotting. Sodium and Potassium help the heart and nerves communicate through electrical signals.

All these elements are present in our body in their nano size in definite quantities enabling hormonal functioning through various mechanisms. Interestingly, Music too exerts a powerful influence on human beings such as boosting memory, stamina, reducing anxiety and depression, staving off fatigue and helping to work more effectively.Thanks to the paper by Dr. Vinod Vidwans, on The Doctrine of Shruti in Indian Music, we know that the concept of Shruti in Indian music has been there for two thousand years. It has attracted scholars from around the world after western musicologists such as William Jones and others started taking an interest in it.

Today Shruti is being studied using various technological and scientific tools, but it still remains an enigma for practicing musicians, musicologists and scholars. Whatever may be the form - Carnatic, Hindustani, Folk, etc. the fundamental concept of Shruti is the same and valid for all categories of Indian music. There are three seminal treatises that defined and formulated the term Shruti in their respective archetypes, namely Naradiya Siksha, Bharata’s Natya Shastra and Sarngadeva’s Sangeeta Ratnakara.

EQUIVALENCE TO ELEMENTS

Of late, many subsequent works have come up with a comprehensive framework of 110 shrutis called ‘Shruti-Megha’ or ‘Shruti-Punja, ’ a model that may be useful for computational Indian music though this model has integrated concepts of shruti from Naradiya-Shiksha into Bharata’s paradigm of 22 shrutis. Owing to Technological advancements, many researchers have been simulating Shrutis using software.

The word ‘Nano’ implies small but doesn’t just mean small. It is as huge as unimaginably small and as famously said "There’s plenty of room at the bottom” - Richard Feynman. Mathematically speaking, a nanometer (nm) is a billionth (10-9) of a meter.

the Nanomaterials are the materials with atleast one dimension in 1-100nm size band that are developed or synthesized in laboratory to exhibit novel chracteristics such as enhanced electrical, optical and thermal properties compared to the same bulk material.

We attempted to relate the obtained frequencies of metal nanoparticles with reported 22 (dwavimshati) Shrutis’ frequency values through the experiments over ultrasonicinterferometer for exploring newer possibilities to enrich Musicology. From the experiments, we infer elements respond to musical frequencies and is a fascinating question to probe further and research whether deficiencies in human bodies can be fine-tuned with 'Shruti therapy' .

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