Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.348

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A more original contribution to the science of the rāgas is furnished by *Śrī-mal-lakṣa-saṅgītam* and *Abhinava-rāga-mañjarī*² two short Sanskrit treatises composed in 1921 by Pandit Bhat-Khande (under the pseudonym of Viṣṇu Śarmā) an eminent scholar and one of the foremost living connoisseurs of Indian music to whom this volume is dedicated. The author adopts the system of unifiers (*melakas*) and derivatives (*janya*). Accepting the Velāvala as the fundamental scale,³ he divides the rāgas into 10 groups (*melakas*=group-makers): Kalyāṇa, Kammāj, Bhairava, Pauravī, Māravā, Kāphī, Āśāvarī, Bhairavī and Toḍikā. The derivative rāgiṇīs coming under each group are set out in the table given in Appendix 35).