Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.289

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of ‘husbands,’ ‘wives’ and ‘sons’ is an essentially Northern and unscientific method, is not authorized by the ancient texts, and has not been followed in the Southern School. This is generally true. But the germ of the idea is certainly derived from Sangita-ratnākara. At page 152, (part 1) Śārangadeva describes 15 major rāgas as “janakas” (fathers) of the minor melodies (bhāsās). Then he describes (p 238) a few rāgas, which he could not group under any class and assign to any family, as melodies of unknown parentage (anukta-janakā).