The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c6.92

c6.92

Mode and râga are, however, perfectly distinct from each other—Mode being termed *thât*, and not râga or râgini. Now *thât* consists in determining the relative intervals between several sounds, which constitute an octave with respect to each other. A râga is formed from these, in its composition employing the whole or less number of the intervals of the *thât*, and with a peculiar melodic style of its own; in fact, a melody type formed upon a mode. This, however, is more fully explained in another chapter.