Posted on: 16 April 2013

The Ragas in Ragamala

Six are male (parent) ragas; the thirty raginis are their wives and the remaining forty-eight are their sons. These are listed is as follows:

(1) Parent Raga: Bhairav raga
Wives: Bhairavi, Bilawali, Punyaki, Bangli, Aslekhi. Sons: Pancham, Harakh, Disakh, Bangal, Madhu, Madhava, Lalit, Bilaval.

(2) Parent Raga: Malkaus raga
Wives: Gaundkari, Devagandhari, Gandhari, Seehute, Dhanasri. Sons: Maru, Mustang, Mewara, Parbal, Chand, Khokhat, Bhora, Nad.

(3) Parent Raga: Hindol raga
Wives: Telangi, Devkari, Basanti, Sindhoori, Aheeri. Sons: Surmanand, Bhasker, Chandra-Bimb, Mangalan, Ban, Binoda, Basant, Kamoda.

(4) Parent Raga: Deepak raga
Wives: Kachheli, Patmanjari, Todi, Kamodi, Gujri. Sons: Kaalanka, Kuntal, Rama, Kamal, Kusum, Champak, Gaura, Kanra [36].

(5) Parent Raga: Sri raga
Wives: Bairavi, Karnati, Gauri, Asavari, Sindhavi. Sons: Salu, Sarag, Sagra, Gaund, Gambhir, Gund, Kumbh, Hamir.

(6) Parent Raga: Megh raga
Wives: Sorath, Gaundi-Malari, Asa, Gunguni, Sooho. Sons: Biradhar, Gajdhar, Kedara, Jablidhar, Nut, Jaldhara, Sankar, Syama.

- Wiki


Image:
A LEAF WITH TWO RAGAMALA ILLUSTRATIONS: BANGAL RAGINI AND TODI RAGINI, INDIA, DECCAN, HYDERABAD, CIRCA 1760

Gouache heightened with gold on paper, a double-sided leaf, each page with text above the miniature in red and black nast’aliq script on cream paper, red borders, recto numbered in lower border in Persian '18'
recto painting: 26 by 17.9cm.
verso miniature: 25.6 by 17.7cm.
leaf: 36.3 by 26cm

Source: www.sothebys.com


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Great piece of information !! Thanks !!

I did a post on the raginis, the focus was on the fact that the paintings don't always have fair skinned women (which is the first impression with many miniature paintings). The ragmala paintings are a bit fanciful but really quite poetic and beautiful too. http://bit.ly/XQoZYz

Raagmala appear at the end of Sri Guru Granth Sahib - Guru of Sikhs and is sung in Gurudawaraas all over the world http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/6449/raagmalalp5.jpg

Scroll down at bottom where Raag Mala starts http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.gurbani?Action=Page&Param=1429&g=1&h=1&r=1&t=1&p=0&k=0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0kE_W1f11E

This is beautiful !

can anyone translate what is written above the painting into English?