A Comparative Study of Some of the Leading Music Systems of the 15th, 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries c4.9

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The ancient twelve Thatas he takes from the Raga Tarangini. We have already gone through them and shall not repeat them About the Deepaka Thata, the author says ष्ठात्रवर्णे दीपकं मध्यमं स्म्यम्। This shows that Deepaka Raga was not sung also in his time .Th follows a fanciful division of Ragas into four classes एतासु सकला रागा जायन्ते वादनक्रमाः । ब्राह्मणाः क्षत्रिया वैश्याः शूद्रास्ते स्युःश्चतुर्विधाः ॥ संपूर्णा ब्राह्मणाः प्रोक्ताः क्षत्रियाः पाडवा मताः । औडुवाः कथिता वैश्याः शूद्रास्तदितरे क्वचित् ॥