[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935) › c5.20 # Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c5.20 Rāgas and Rāginīs: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c5.20 - **Language:** English ### [c5.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c5.20) Clements in his excellent study of the fundamentals of type,—e.g. Bhairavī thāt, Indian Music thus describes the rāga:³ “The name of the Rāga connotes a scale bearing a fixed relationship to the drone, with its harmonic structure determined by a Vādī and Samvādī, a chief note (“aṃśa svara”) occurring more frequently than others, a lower limit described in terms of the Mūrchanā, occasionally an upper limit also, certain characteristic turns of melody, recurring with frequency, certain rules regarding the employment of embellishments, - [Previous: c5.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c5.19) - [Next: c5.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c5.21) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c5.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c5.20) · Pramāṇa