Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.185

c6.185

According to the date given in the colophon, Locana Pandita's Rāgataraṅgiṇī comes in order of chronological sequence before the asserts that the ancient masters of the melodies sang twelve melodies on which all the other melodies are based.¹ He enumerates the following twelve melodies as the basic rāgas:—Bhairavī, Toḍī, Gaurī, Karṇāṭa, Kedāra, Iman, Sāraṅga, Megha-rāga, Dhanāśrī, Pūravī, Mukhārī and Dīpaka. The author describes these 12 melodies with their characteristics.