Historical Development of Indian Music: A Critical Study c8.55

c8.55

In the ninth-eleventh century, during the time of the Jaina musicologist Pārśadeva, two kinds of *ālapti*, *rāgālapti* and *rūpakālapti*, evolved which formed the basic ground of the manifestation of the tonal forms of the rāgas. The tunes of the aboriginal Himalayan tribe, *Bhiravā*—*Bhairava* and *Bhairavī* were introduced into the Aryan stock and they were afterwards recognized as the prominent melodies in the classical type of music. Besides them, variants of tunes or melodies of *varāti*, *toḍi*, *gauḍa*, *gurjarī*, etc. and those of *śrī* and *krī* stocks, evolved to enrich the treasure of Indian classical music.