Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.22

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Bharata’s jātis, therefore, for all practical purposes provide the genus out of which the rāgas have been derived although Bharata does not actually use the term rāga. In fact Mataṅga asserts that “he is including in his work informations on such subjects as “courses of rāgas” with their marks and characteristics,—matters which have not been dealt with by Bharata and other sages”³