Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.155

c6.155

To the beginning of the fourteenth century, belongs a very curious text called *Samgāna-Sāgara* which we owe to Śubhaṃkara, who lived in Nepal, during the reign of Mahārāja Bhūmalla Deva. The work survives in a very much mutilated palm-leaf Ms. written in Newāri character with Colophon which gives the date 428 Newāri saṃvat equivalent to 1308 A.D.² The author enumerates the eighteen *jātis*, and mentions and describes 34 rāgas. He seems to give the same system which we find elaborated in the *Saṅgīta-ratnākara*. He mentions such rāgas as *Madhyamādi* and *Śaṅkarābharaṇa*.³ He also quotes the opinion of Someśvara. Owing to the mutilated condition of the Ms., it is not possible to obtain detailed information as to the state of the melodies prevalent at the time of the author.