[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) › c6.331 # Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.331 Rāgas and Rāginīs: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.331 - **Language:** English ### [c6.331](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c6.331) 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, - [Previous: c6.330](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c6.330) - [Next: c6.332](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c6.332) - [Up: c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c6) ## Cites (1) - [Caturdaṇḍīprakāśikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.sangita.raga.caturdandiprakasika) — Veṅkaṭamakhin 1620, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c6.331](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c6.331) · Pramāṇa