[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) › c6.50 # Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.50 Rāgas and Rāginīs: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.50 - **Language:** English ### [c6.50](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c6.50) After devoting a chapter to the \*Jātis\*, Matanga devotes a special chapter to the \*rāgas\*. Indeed, it is in this chapter of the \*Bṛhad-deśī\* that we first come across the word “\*rāgas\*” as understood in all later literature on Indian music. In the history of the \*rāgas\*, \*Bṛhad-deśī\* is, therefore, a very important landmark. Chronologically, the work stands between the \*Nāṭyaśāstra\* of Bharata, and the \*Saṅgita-makaranda\* of Nārada, that is to say, some time between the 4th and the 7th century.¹ - [Previous: c6.49](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c6.49) - [Next: c6.51](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c6.51) - [Up: c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c6) ## Cites (3) - [Nāṭyaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.bharata.natyasastra) — Bharata, Sanskrit - [Bṛhaddeśī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.sangita.prachina.brhaddesi) — Mataṅga, Sanskrit - [Saṅgītamakaranda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.sangita.prachina.sangitamakaranda) — Nārada, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c6.50](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c6.50) · Pramāṇa