Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c10.7

Rāgas and Rāginīs: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c10.7

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c10.7

Thus, the Bhinna-ṣaḍja, an archaic melody, is described in a prayer-formula in the text of *Rāga-kutūhala*, which from the point of view of musical iconography, must be regarded as one of earlier texts.¹ As *Rāga-kutūhala* quotes the opinion of *Śangīta-ratnākara*, it must be later than the 13th century. (“*Rāga kutūhala: Caturdhā: Gurjarikā Ratnākara-mate*,” *Anūpa-sangīta-vilāsa*. P. 124).

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Saṅgītaratnākara — Śārṅgadeva, Sanskrit