The Music of Hindostan c11.47

c11.47

his mythology round them. He speaks of six original Rāgs which were *śuddha* (pure). The six are variously given. The six of the *Rāgavibodha*, as authoritative as any, are, though under other names, Nos. 13, 26, 37, 47, 49, 51. Of these, modes were taken, sometimes called *mūrchana* (rise and fall), sometimes *jāti* (species). The next step was to cross the *jātis* and produce hybrids ¹ (*Chāyālaga*, *Saṅkīrṇa*, *Sālanka*, *Miśra*, &c.). The poet speaks also of the six original Rāgs having wives (*bhārya*) and sons (*putra*), and it seems hardly worth while to translate these into the plain prose of ‘mode’ and ‘hybrid’. The exact pedigree of the *putras* seems to be irrecoverable: their names are all there (though no two lists give them alike), but not a trace of form or feature.