Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.270

c6.270

In this list of 66 melodies, we miss some of the rāgas cited in the first treatise, given above. The 66 rāgas tabulated in the list probably represented the current melodies as Puṇḍarik Viṭṭhal found them in Northern India when he sat down to compose his work. But the Rāgamālā, from our point of view, is the most important document, as it is in this work that we come across for the first time descriptive verses, actually giving the visual pictures, along with the component notes of the melodies, and also an indication of the time allocated to the singing of the rāgas.