Sthayi or Asthaayi is an initial phrase or line of a fixed, melodic composition in Hindustani music.
[1] It is a way of having the parts of a composition.
The Sthayi part of a Dhrupad is the first of four stanzas and uses the middle octave's first tetrachord and the lower octave notes.
[2] Sthayi means an octave.
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