Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.253

c6.253

(2) Although he accepts Mukhārī, as the śuddha scale, following the older practice, he was inclined to take Mālava-gaula as his model for the śuddha scale: "Rāgo Mālava-gaulaśca**rāgānāmutta-mottamah|| (Svara-mela-kalānidhi, p. xxxi). As Mr. Aiyar remarks: "Evidently he did not come to deduce his twenty melas form any kind of principles but perhaps recorded such of the melas as were in vogue during his time."