Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.102

c6.102

We have a very interesting corroboration of the existence of some of these melodies at last some time prior to the tenth century in the archaic Bengali songs of the Buddhist mystic of the Sahajiyā sect, by name Siddhācārya Luipā, whom Haraprasad Sastri, associating with Dīpaṃkara Śrī-jñāna, places in the tenth century,¹ while Benoytosh Bhattacharya believes Luipā lived about 669 A.D.² Each of these songs collected under the name of Caryācarya-viniścaya, bears on the heading of each song, the name of the melody in which it is required to be sung. The following names of rāgas are indicated: Paṭamañjarī, Gauḍā, Gavaḍā (Gauḍa), Aru, Guñjarī (? Gujjarī), Deva-krī, Deśākh, Bhairavi, Kāmod, Dhanasī, Varādī, Valāddī, Mallārī, Mālasī, Mālasī-Gavuḍā (Mālava-Gauḍa), Kahnu-Guñjari, Vaṅgāla, Śīvarī Śavarī (Sāverī). Nearly all of