Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c5.19

c5.19

S. G. Kanhere² observes: “In the language of music the arrangement of notes which colour or affect certain emotion of the mind is called rāga. The definition of rāga given in Sanskrit books is “that a particular combination or relation of several notes which is pleasing to the ear is called Rāga.” Many conflicting explanations of rāga given by different scholars converge to the same centre, i.e., “the pleasant effect of the arrangements of notes.”