[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935) › c6.290 # Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.290 Rāgas and Rāginīs: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.290 - **Language:** English ### [c6.290](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.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. - [Previous: c6.289](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c6.289) - [Next: c6.291](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c6.291) - [Up: c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c6) ## Cites (1) - [Saṅgītamakaranda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.sangita.prachina.sangitamakaranda) — Nārada, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c6.290](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c6.290) · Pramāṇa