Colour and Sound

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Feb 1882

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Nature, Volume 25, Issue 641, pp. 339 (1882).

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SOME weeks ago there appeared an account of a series of experiments connecting colour and sound; the following passage from Prof. Max Müller's Chips, ii. 104, may interest some of your readers:-``That Purûravas is an appropriate name of a solar hero requires hardly any proof. Purûravas meant the same as endowed with much light; for though rava is generally used of sound, yet the root ru, which means originally to cry, is also applied to colour, in the sense of a loud or crying colour, i.e. red (cf. ruber, rufus, Lith, rauda, O.H.G. rôt, rudhira, also Sanskrit ravi, sun).'' The following footnote occurs:-``Thus it is said, Rv. vi. 3, 6, the fire cries with light, sok shâ rârapîti the two Spartan Charites are called incluta) and i.e. Clara, clear-shining. In the Veda the rising sun is said to cry like a new child (Rv. ix. 74, 1)-I do not derive ravas from rap, but I only quote rap as illustrating the close connection between loudness of sound and brightness of light.''

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