Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c10.125
Rāgas and Rāginīs: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c10.125
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c10.125
It is a matter of some conjecture, if the verses of Harivallabha represent the earliest rāga-mālā texts in Hindī versions. For, if the couplets (*dohās*) quoted on the back of the series of rāgiṇī pictures in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (No. 17.2371 to 17.2385) and on the back of analogous examples in the Ghose Collection in Calcutta are proved to be contemporaneous with the pictures which have been dated about 1600 A.D., then the texts endorsed on these early rāgiṇī series must be older than Harivallabha.