Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.118

Rāgas and Rāginīs: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.118

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c6.118

(1) ‘The Five Sounds’ (pañca śabda) is probably the same as the ‘Five Great Sounds’ (Pañcamahā-śabda) which an Imperial Sovereign is entitled to use as the Royal insignia of his office. According to a text cited in the Prabandha cintāmaṇi (Tawney’s translation, p. 214), they represent five kinds of music emanating from metal, throat, drum, vīṇā, and bugle. The matter is discussed by Grouse (Indian Antiquary, Vol. V, p. 534), Pathak (Ibid, Vol. XII, p. 96) and recently in the Journal of the Bombay Royal Asiatic Society 1933.

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Prabandhacintāmaṇi — Merutuṅga, Sanskrit