Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.290

c6.290

(1) This must mean the author himself, and not the author of Sangita-makaranda, (p. 18) who enumerates the masculine rāgas as twenty in number. The author of Cattvāriṃśacchata-rāga-nirūpaṇam, represents a time, when in Northern India, the major melodies (puruṣa-rāga) were growing less and less in number, and approaching towards the stage of being limited to six rāgas. It is quite possible that our author, though living in a later epoch, was adhering to the older and conservative school.