The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c9.127

c9.127

These melodies are again irregular in construction; the râgas in which they are composed, though much alike, differ, in that the third is not admitted as a real note in the ascending mode of the second example. A characteristic of the râga Purvi is shown in the “glisse” from D to G in the sixth and seventh bars of the first air--