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# Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c10.69

Rāgas and Rāginīs: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c10.69

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### [c10.69](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c10.69)

(both of them compilations, which liberally quote earlier authorities), contain quotations from earlier rāga-mālā texts. Of these, Rāga-kutūhala, and Viṭṭhal’s Rāga-mālā, have already been discussed. He however cites some anonymous verses, giving the dhyāna formula of three of the early grāma-rāgas, two of which are of interest, as will appear from the examples cited below: “Śuddha Khāḍava: ‘Seated at the foot of a tree, with his mind under control, (yet) smiling in company with his beloved, his head covered by a coronet, Śuddha Khāḍava is thus described.’”¹

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