Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c5.3
Rāgas and Rāginīs: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c5.3
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(1) ‘*Rañjayati iti rāgaḥ*’=‘that which colours, is a rāga.’
(2) In the Sanskrit text-books on music (conveniently summarised by Sir S. M. Tagore in his *Saṅgītasaṅgraha*, p. 27), very types of a serial of notes for ascent (āroha) and descent (avaroha) which determines its structure or ṭhāṭ. The degree of insistence or importance of particular notes lends flesh, blood, colour, and life to the scale and creates a Rāga.