A Comparative Study of Some of the Leading Music Systems of the 15th, 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries c9.8

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All this will show that Hindusthani music was going through wonderful changes and that there were great artists in those Mahomedan times. I only wish Bhava Bhatta had taken the trouble to carefully define or describe all these "upanga ragas". His omission has left us, no doubt, in a very unfortunate position. It appears he was a great admirer of Pundarika. In the Raga-Adhyaya of Ratnakara, he has practically adopted the raga classification of the Raga Manjari of that writer. He says:—