Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.78

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ween the fifth and the eleventh century,¹ is very poor in actual musical data. Beyond giving some important lists of names of rāgas the text does not offer any descriptions of the melodies mentioned. Nārada, the author of this work, (not the mythical sage associated with the early legends of Hindu music), for the first time, perhaps, gives us an elaborate enumeration and classification of rāgas as known to the Northern system at the time of its composition. The author in fact gives two stages in the development of the classification. (Appendix 4).