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It is commonly said that Southern music is pure Indian, but Northern music is not pure Indian due to foreign influence. We will attempt to dispel this misconception here. Northern or Hindustani music has been the music of Bharata and Shargadeva since the Vedic period. Its soul has remained unchanged; Muslim influence is visible in its superficial appearance. The soul of music refers to the rules of dialogue and debate in ragas and meter in talas. The external appearance refers to the changes in the names of ragas and talas, and the invention of tabla, sitar, khayal, etc. In our opinion, Carnatic music can be called systematic because it is based on mathematics. Hindustani music is not as systematic, but when viewed from the perspective of the laws of acoustics, Northern music is more scientific (Dhv.San., p. 278). Southern music is controversial on the basis of acoustics. The pure octave there is primarily based on the meaning notes; the use of four meaning notes in their Mukhari or Kanankagi pure melodies cannot be called scientific. Whereas the pure octave of the North is completely based on the rules of phonetics, for example, its scientificity is self-evident because it is based on the self-originating notes obtained from the Tanpura of Bilawal Thaat.