Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.141
Rāgas and Rāginīs: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.141
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c6.141
Very instructive examples are offered as to the melody-bases from which some of the *rāgas* famous in later times, derive their character, though no clue is available as to their proper names. Thus, we are informed by Śārṅgadeva for the first time, that the *rāga* Bhairava is derived from the archaic melody, Bhinna-ṣadja. "It has 'dha' for its tonic note, 'ma' for its finale, and it avoids the notes 'ri' and 'pa'; it is a melody of equivalent values for prayers."