ABSTRACT
A jathi is a systematic accent applied to a gati, producing as a result crossing accents over the beat. A jathi takes a number of matras that is always different to the number of the gati. The number of the jathi provides the number of beats required to fall on a beat. The syllables assigned to a jathi will always correspond to the chosen number and never take the syllables assigned to the gati. The only exception to usage of solkattu syllables is while using jathi 7. The longer the two-layered gati/jathi combination is, the more it needs to resolve on tala sam. If chatusra jathi 3 against chatusra jathi 5 is to be performed and the chosen tala is 7 beats, calculations are needed to establish the starting point of the polyrhythm. In practice, these long structures of polyrhythms used in karnatic music because karnatic musicians consider these long chunks of crossing structures tedious and repetitious.
