[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935) › c10.206 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c10.206](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c10.206) 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 - [Previous: c10.205](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c10.205) - [Next: c10.207](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c10.207) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c10.206](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c10.206) · Pramāṇa