Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c10.228
Rāgas and Rāginīs: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c10.228
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If the beauty of musical concepts levied its tribute from the scholars and poets in Hindī and Persian languages, the votaries of the Bengali language, followed suit. And we have at least one metrical treatise which provides not only a complete rāga-mālā text in Bengali, but also offers a general survey of Indian musical literature and the main essentials of the theory, expounded in simple payār (rhyming) verses couched in the archaic language of the time, together with specimens of songs illustrating the melodies.