[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) › c5.5 # Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c5.5 Rāgas and Rāginīs: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c5.5 - **Language:** English ### [c5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c5.5) picturesque definitions and descriptions are given of the characteristic composing notes of a rāga, viz. vādi, samvādi, anuvādi, and vivādi (sonant, consonant, assonant, dissonant) notes: “sa vādi kathyate pracuro yah prayogesu vakti rāgādiniścayam”=‘That note is called a vādi, by the abundant use of which a rāga is clearly differentiated.’ - [Previous: c5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c5.4) - [Next: c5.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c5.6) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c5.5) · Pramāṇa