The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c8.4

c8.4

The literal meaning of the word râga is “that which creates passion,” and hence, according to the Hindu idea, a râga signifies a succession of notes so arranged, according to prescribed rules, as to awaken a certain feeling of the mind and an effect differing, it may be, in the minutest particulars from that derivable from another râga.