Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c10.206
Rāgas and Rāginīs: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c10.206
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A music-scholar³ has cited some verses from a Hindī treatise named Sangīta-Sudarśana composed by another theorist from the Punjab named Sudarsan-ācārya, who quotes the opinion of another named ‘Svara-sāgara.’ According to this text, Mālakous has five wives:—It has been said in the Svara-Sāgara that this rāga (malkous) has the picture of an ascetic, it has Visnu as its presiding deity, and, therefore, it is a peaceful and spiritual melody, its principal