The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c6.100

c6.100

The Sangíta Naráyana shows that thirty-six “modes” or râgas are in general use, and the rest very rarely applied to practice. These modes are shown by Sir William Jones in his essay on the musical modes of the Hindus, and will be found in many respects similar to those described in the Sangíta Darpana, and shown above. Thirty-six modes from the Râga Vívodha, and thirty-six from the work of Mirza Khan, have also been described by the same eminent scholar, and need not, therefore, be reproduced here.