A Comparative Study of Some of the Leading Music Systems of the 15th, 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries c5.28

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Ahobala does not classify his ragas under any particular Thatas, but his reference to some Thata names here and there is enough to prove that in his time, the method of classifying Ragas under Thatas was common He describes about 122 Ragas in the Parijata In the raga description he mentions in each case the note used in the raga, the aroha and avaroha the Graha and Nyasa and also the Murchana The Murchana in the Parijata is nothing more than the first 'tana' of the 'swara-karana' given under each Raga We shall speak of the Murchana when we examine Srinivasa Pandita's work Raga Tatwa Vibodha Sri Nivasa was a faithful follower of Ahobala