Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.156

c6.156

Belonging to the first quarter of the fourteenth century, there is an interesting document hailing from Mithilā which was, for several centuries, a seat of Hindu culture, particularly, of music and poetry. This work which is an encyclopædia in old Maithilī language, known as "Varṇa-