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Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.232

Rāgas and Rāginīs: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.232

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c6.232

two manuscripts, one with a colophon dated Saṃvat 1431 (1509 A.D.), deserves to be noted here. It comes from Rewa and is the work of Kṣema Karṇa (Meṣa Karṇa) son of Maheś Pāṭhak, the family priest of a chief named Jāṭalendra, reigning in the Fort of Rewa. This work follows a scheme of classification on the basis of six major rāgas,¹ viz. Bhairava,