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Oleta Blaylock
The day is divided into eight parts: four praharas for the day, and four for the night. The first prahara of the day begins at sunrise, and the fourth prahara of the day ends at sunset. A second round of four praharas unfolds during the night, between sunset and sunrise.
In the ancient Puranas, the day is divided into eight praharas: four for the day and four for the night.[2] The concept still prevails today in India, particularly in connection with the performance of Indian classical music (see below).
The concept of prahar originated where the lengths of the day and night were based on actual, observable sunrise and sunset. The four praharas of the day start at sunrise, and the four praharas of the night at sunset. If the location is near the equator, where day and night are the same length year round, the praharas of the day and the praharas of the night will be of equal length (three hours each). In other regions, where the relative length of day and night varies according to the season, the praharas of the day will be longer or shorter than the praharas of the night.
The question of how to handle the praharas when days and nights are unequal in length is critical for timing the performance of ragas, since each raga is ideally performed during a certain prahara.
Some ragas of the Indian classical music are prescribed to be performed at a particular prahara to maximize their aesthetic effects (see samayā). Perhaps the earliest mention of the relation between raga and time is Narada's Sangita Makaranda, written sometime between the 7th and 11th century, which warns musicians against playing ragas at the incorrect time of day.[5] Pandit V.N. Bhatkhande (1860-1936), who formulated the modern system of Indian musical thāt, states that the correct time (or prahara) to play a raga has a relation to its thāt.[6]
Ashta means Eight and Prahar means a period of 3 hours. As the day is divided in 24 hours it so do the prahar of each 3 hours and hence there are 8 prahars. And the duration from morning 6pm to the next day morning 6am is called Ashta prahar.
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Apart from musical content and the esoteric concept of rasa ('juice, essence, flavour') Indian classical raags (melodic structures) are also assigned to particular times of day or night to maximise their emotional impact on the listener. In ages past, no self-respecting musician could have been persuaded to perform a raag at the wrong time but in this age of recorded music, music-on-the-move and music-on-demand, listening to a raag at its prescribed time is no longer adhered to as strictly as before.
When we speak of raags and times, it must be understood that this is not time as shown on the clock but time in relation to the position of the sun as viewed from earth. Indian classical culture divides the day into eight segments of three hours, with each given a name either according to the level of light or a specific activity that is associated with that time of day. Given that ancient India was largely an agrarian society, many activities are related to the land or to the tending of cattle. This categorisation is known as prahar.
Nearly all raags in North Indian music (but not so much in its Southern counterpart) are categorised by the time of day they may be played or heard. There are exceptions but these are mostly for those raags that have also been assigned an additional geographical or seasonal component, for instance, Bahar and Basant (Spring), Malhar (Rain), Pahadi (Mountains), and Mand (strong associations with the folk music of the Rajasthani desert).
There have been some attempts to find rational explanations for why particular raags sound better at certain times and some researchers have concluded that it might be connected to the pattern of half or flat notes, and that raags which have these as dominant or sub-dominant notes are more likely to be assigned to sections where day meets night, where the fading light creates a mood of ambivalence and uncertainty.
Listen to the music Dhrupad vocal master Ustad Wasifuddin Dagar sings Raag Ahir Bhairav, intimately connected with the early morning hours - the Ahir are a caste of cowherds, milkers, and cattle breeders, and the raag is traditionally said to summon the feelings of walking to the fields to tend to the cattle. Live from a morning concert at Darbar Festival 2018.
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