Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c10.184

c10.184

(2) It has been printed as the second part of *Rāga-ratnākar*, a collection of Hindī Hymns published by Khemraj Krsna Das in the Vyankatesvara Press, Bombay 1893 In the colophon which gives the date, the author states that with six rāgas and 30 rāginīs they make up 36 melodies. But Miyā Tansen has sung about 111 melodies'. The writer is indebted to Rai Bahadur Bishan Swarup of the discovery of the treatise, and the name of the author, which is not given in the work itself but is gleaned from a reference in another work dated 1874.