Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.211

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(1) We owe the discovery of this work to V. Raghavan. The work is extensively quoted by the author himself in his commentary on ‘Gito-Govinda, called *Rasika-priyā*, published by the Nirnaysagar Press, Bombay, 1913, under the editorship of Telang and Pansikar. The work survives in a single Ms. in the collection of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona, No. 365, 1879-80. Unfortunately, the Ms. is a fragment and contains the introductory portions and definitions, but the portions bearing on the rāgas are missing in the Ms. The data on rāgas have, therefore, been cited, here, from the fragmentary extracts quoted by the author in his *Rasika-priyā*. In the Poona Ms. the work is also described as *Pādya-ratna-kośa*. Each section has a colophon which runs as follows: “*Iti śrī rājadhirāja śrī Kumbha-karṇa viracite sangita-rāje pādya-ratna-kośe parikṣaṇam nāma dvitīyam samāptam.*”