Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.100

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(3) It is not clear what class sandhi rāgas represent. It may mean miśra or sankirna (mixed type). Perhaps it corresponds to the jāti-sādhāraṇa of Bharata who calls it 'sandhi' or 'twilight of the rāgas'. (See Fox-Strangways' Music of Hindosthan, p. 138-139). Alternately, sandhi-rāgas may mean rāgas suitable for singing at lated text available, some of the names cannot be read and accurately deciphered. The first group of eight consists of:—Pañcama-mālava, Mādhavārī, Hindola, Mālasikā, Velā-vali, Toḍi, Gāndhāra, and Naṭa. The second group consists of: Lalitā, Bhairavī, Bhāṣa, Vasanta, Gurjjarī, Koḍā-Deśākh, Deśa-Varāṭī, Vicitrā, Gauṇḍa-kirī, Varāḍī, Mānavatī, Vāṅgala, Karṇāṭa, Rāma-Kirī, Sālaṃka, Navanāṭa, Deśākh, Nṛpa-mālava. The third group consists of:—Mallāra, Pathamañjarī, Dhanāsikā, Karṇāṭī, Hemakirīkā, Savarī, Divāḍī, Khamvāvati, Takka, Kāmoda, Devakirī, Laungirātī (?), Moṭaki, Bhallāta, Vāheḍī, Gunakirī, Kokīrikā, Madhukarī, Gauḍī and Anunī(?) (Appendix 6).