Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.140

c6.140

But the most valuable information that this text conveys to us is as to the ancestry of several of the *rāgas*, whose names occur for the first time in the *Saṅgīta-makaranda* and which *rāgas* must have acquired those names some time before the last named text, say about the eighth century. The text of Śārṅgadeva affords the only evidences as to the sources from which these well-known *rāgas* derive their character and existence.