The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c6.93

c6.93

In no two Sanskrit works do we find that the râgas agree either as to their names or their notation; the modes or scales of these different râgas are not given, and, in most cases, it is therefore only a matter of conjecture as to how they were performed. In almost these works a somewhat similar classification of the râgas and râginis has been adopted. There are six principal râgas personified as demigods, each of which has a certain number of râginis (personified as the wives of the râgas)—sometimes five and sometimes six—appended to it.