Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c7.20
Rāgas and Rāginīs: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c7.20
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Other names of rāgas are derived from geographical place names and regions. The most typical example is Vaṅgāla, ‘the celestial form of which’, Matanga points out, ‘is derived from the Vaṅgāla country’.⁴ Cognate examples are (a) Saindhavī, from Sindhudeśa, modern Sind, (b) Sauvīra (with its derivative, Sauvīraka, Sauvīrī) from the ancient region in the South-west,⁵ (c) Takka (sometimes called