Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.258

c6.258

Pundarik Viththal: Saḍrāgacandrodaya: But the most important contribution to the developments of the Akbar period we owe to a great scholar, named Puṇḍarīk Vittal, who came from some part of the Deccan.² He was the author of four remarkable treatises in Sanskrit² in which the theories and the musical practices of his time are systematised. Although he cites the Southern Mukhārī or Kanakāṅgi scale, the music that he treats of is without doubt Northern music. Our author wrote his works under the aus-