Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.96

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to each of which five or six minor melodies are related and assigned.) According to this text, the major melodies, or rāgas proper, come in the following order: "First comes Mālava, the king of the rāgas, then comes Mallāra, and after it comes Śrī-rāga and then Vasanta, Hindola and Karṇāṭa coming next,—these are the rāgas known by fame, and they are dressed as males."¹ We have, here, for the first time, the minor, or the derivative melodies designated as the 'wives of the rāgas' (rāga-yoṣita) and the word 'rāgiṇī' is used in the text, for the first time. They are assigned to their appropriate rāgas in a scheme given in Appendix 13.