In classical Indian music, what is the first count of any tala known as?

Q. In classical Indian music, what is the first count of any tala known as?
Answer: Sam
Notes: The tala forms the metrical structure that repeats, in a cyclical harmony, from the start to end of any particular song or dance segment, making it conceptually analogous to meters in Western music. In the two major systems of classical Indian music, the first count of any tala is called sam.

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