Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.132
Rāgas and Rāginīs: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.132
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c6.132
We notice here several melodies of the bhāṣā class accepted as major rāgas. He then enumerates, on the authority of Yāṣṭika, fifteen melodies—which are asserted as generic rāgas from which the minor melodies bhāṣās (*rāgiṇīs*) are derived.¹ These are: Sauvīra, Kakubha, Ṭakka, Pañcama, Bhinna-pañcama, Ṭakka-Kaiśika, Hindolaka, Vhoṭṭa, Mālava-kaiśika, Gāndhāra-pañcama, Bhinna-ṣaḍja, Vesara-ṣāḍava, Mālava-pañcama,² Tāna, Pañcama-ṣāḍava.