Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.194

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founded on each of the twelve major melodies cited by him. The list set out in Appendix 16 indeed is very curious and does not give any clue to the principle of the system. In this list, we come across, for the first time, many new rāgiṇīs, which became very common in the Northern system e.g. Khamāicī. Probably, Khamāicī is the well-known melody familiar to us under the name of Kammāj (Khamvāj), and which is distinguished from ‘Khamvāvatī’ which is ascribed to the group of Karṇāṭa.