[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) › c6.344 # Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.344 Rāgas and Rāginīs: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.344 - **Language:** English ### [c6.344](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c6.344) A pretentious treatise compiled during the early part of the 19th century, and printed in 1842 we owe to a musical expert Kṛṣṇānanda Vyāsa, a Gauḍa Brahmin from a village in Udaipur. It is an encyclopædia in Sanskrit of songs collected from different parts of India and published under the title Saṅgīta-rāga-kalpadruma.¹ It also deals with dancing and drumming and rhythm. It is hardly an original contribution to music and merely summarises the works of previous text-writers. In the section on rāgas the author follows the \*Sangīta-darpaṇa\* basing his classification on the School of Hanumān. He describes the 36 melodies and quotes the prayer-formulas as cited in the \*Sangīta-darpaṇa\*. As an anthology of old songs, both in Hindi and Persian, which are collected under different melodies, the work is of great value, the materials having been collected during a period of 32 years, from a wide field of researches. - [Previous: c6.343](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c6.343) - [Next: c6.345](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c6.345) - [Up: c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c6) ## Cites (1) - [Saṅgītarāgakalpadruma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.sangita.sangraha.pracina-paurava.sangitaragakalpadruma) — Kṛṣṇānanda Vedavyāsa alias Rāgasāgara 1800, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c6.344](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c6.344) · Pramāṇa