[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) › c8.67 # Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c8.67 Rāgas and Rāginīs: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c8.67 - **Language:** English ### [c8.67](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c8.67) Since, \*rāgas\* connote different and differentiated states of feelings, or emotive flavours (\*rasas\*), Indian theorists lay great stress on their relative difference in note-structures, corresponding to their relative emotive significances. A correct apprehension of the form of an individual \*rāga\*, therefore, involves an accurate understanding of its differences from cognate and other forms of related \*rāgas\*. The grouping and classification of \*rāgas\*, according to some principles or other, have, therefore, provided important chapters in all ancient text-books. These principles have varied from time to time, and have led to a bewildering variety of catalogues, groups, and classifications. For the purpose of convenient comparisons, we have set out a large variety of groups, or classifications in tabulated forms, arranged as far as practicable in a chronological sequence in the Appendices, (a list of which is summarised on the page opposite). It is not always possible, without accurate informations as to the note-structures of \*rāgas\* current at different periods of evolution, to discover the principles on which \*rāgas\* have been grouped, or classified. Various principles of - [Previous: c8.66](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c8.66) - [Next: c8.68](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c8.68) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c8.67](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c8.67) · Pramāṇa