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# Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c15.s19: Appendix 21

Rāgas and Rāginīs: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c15.s19

- **Language:** English

### Appendix 21

### [c15.s19.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c15.s19.1)

According to Rāga-Darpana by Dāmodara Miśra (circa 1625 A.D.)

### [c15.s19.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c15.s19.2)

The author first cites the scheme current in his time in the North, and then quotes the schemes according to the Schools of Someśvara, Hanuman, and “Rāgāranava.” He also gives a list of twenty rāgas, which probably represented a traditional group, which may have been popular before the time of the author. Their names are:—Śrī-rāga, Natta, Vangāla, Bhāsa, Madhyama, Sādava, Rakta-hamsa, Kohlīsa, Prabhava, Bhairava, Dhani, Megha-rāga, Soma-rāga, Kāmoda, Āmra-Pancama, Kandarpa, Deśākhya, Kukubha, Kaiśika, and Natta-Nārāyana. Of these many must have ceased to be current in practice at the time of the author.

### [c15.s19.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c15.s19.3)

ŚRĪ-RĀGA

### [c15.s19.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c15.s19.4)

| Mālaśrī | Trivanī | Gourī | Kedārī | Madhu-mādhavī | Pāhādi |

### [c15.s19.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c15.s19.5)

VASANTA

### [c15.s19.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c15.s19.6)

| Deśī | Devagirī | Valātī | Todi | Lalitā | Hindolī |

### [c15.s19.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c15.s19.7)

BHAIRAVA

### [c15.s19.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c15.s19.8)

| Bhairavī | Gurjjarī | Rāmakiī | Gunakirī | Vāngālī | Saindhavī |

### [c15.s19.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c15.s19.9)

PANCAMA

### [c15.s19.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c15.s19.10)

| Vibhāṣā | Bhupālī | Karnātī | Vadaham-sikā | Mālavī | Pata-manjarī |

### [c15.s19.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c15.s19.11)

MEGH-RĀGA

### [c15.s19.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c15.s19.12)

| Mallārī | Sourathī | Sāverī | Kouśikī | Gāndhārī | Hara-śrngārā |

### [c15.s19.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c15.s19.13)

VRHAN-NATA-NATTA-NĀRĀYANA

### [c15.s19.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c15.s19.14)

| Kāmodī | Kalyānī | Ābhirī | Nātīkā | Sārangī | Natta-Hamvīrā |

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