Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.331

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To the closing years of the eighteenth century belongs a short but interesting text, *Saṅgīta-sārāmṛtoddhāra*³ attributed to a royal author, King Tulājī of Tanjore (1763-1787) A.D.). Though a late work, it has some interesting features. He refers to a musician (gāyaka) named Sautika⁴ and cites pithy definitions of the classification of rāgas into rāgāṅga, bhāṣāṅga etc. He cites Mataṅga, Viṭṭhala, and the *Caturdaṇḍi-prakāśikā*. He cites the melodies as current in his time (“samprati pracaranti ye,” verse 14). He attributes to Someśvaradeva,