Very interesting interpretation of 22 srutis

The computed values below are surprisingly close to the ones computed using cycle of fifths.
I've used a string length of 9*13*4 = 468 to have integer units for the vibrating string lengths.

Sruti - Sruti Number
VSL - Vibrating sring length.
Ratio = String Length / VSL
SA Grama - Ratios and corresponding Swara positions in Bharata's SA Grama
MA Grama - Ratios and corresponding Swara positions in Bharata's MA Grama

Sruti   VSL     Ratio   SA Grama      MA Grama
0       468     1.0000  1.7778  N       1.1852  G
1       455     1.0286  1.8286          1.2190
2       442     1.0588  1.8824          1.2549
3       429     1.0909  1.9394          1.2929
4       416     1.1250  1.0000  S       1.3333  M
5       403     1.1613  1.0323          1.3763
6       390     1.2000  1.0667          1.4222
7       377     1.2414  1.1034  R       1.4713  P
8       364     1.2857  1.1429          1.5238
9       351     1.3333  1.1852  G       1.5802
10      342     1.3684  1.2164          1.6218
11      333     1.4054  1.2492          1.6657  D
12      324     1.4444  1.2840          1.7119
13      315     1.4857  1.3206  M       1.7608  N
14      306     1.5294  1.3595          1.8126
15      297     1.5758  1.4007          1.8676
16      288     1.6250  1.4444          1.9259
17      279     1.6774  1.4910  P       1.9881  S
18      270     1.7333  1.5407          1.0272
19      261     1.7931  1.5939          1.0626
20      252     1.8571  1.6508  D       1.1005  R
21      243     1.9259  1.7119          1.1413
22      234     2.0000  1.7778  N       1.1852  G

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