Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c10.211
Rāgas and Rāginīs: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c10.211
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That the practice of Hindu music had not missed the significance of emotive values and their related pictorial illustrations and musical iconography is proved by the interesting work in Hindī entitled Nād-vinod, by Gossain Cunni Lalji published in Samvat 1953 (1896 A.D.). The author cites the standard Sanskrit ślokas descriptive of the rāgas and rāginīs and paraphrases the Sanskrit texts in Hindī prose. He does not offer any independent rāga-mālā texts. His descriptions are illustrated by quaint wood-cuts giving pictorial versions of some of the melodies of which some typical specimens have been cited on Plate CXV.