Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c10.39

c10.39

The practice of composing rāga-mālā verses, descriptive of the images of rāgas, and suggesting their emotive atmosphere and values must have been current long before the middle of the 15th century. In a Ms., dated 1440 A.D. of the *Pancama-sāra-saṃhitā* by Nārada, a complete series of descriptive verses are given of six rāgas and thirty-six rāginīs. (See ante P. 24).