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Purly, Dhanasrl, Sri, create an atmosphere of some mayatlc longing. They mako one feel anxious and uncasy, as if one is miasing something. Generally, these Ragas auggest pathos, devotion and sometimes Vipralambha Sfagara, Catura Damodara, in his "Sargita Dar paņa descrlbes somo Ragas and Raglnis in Sanskrit. Raga Bhairava is described thus 38 : “Victorlous 18 the Raga Bhairava who holds the river Ganges and the new moon as an auspicious mark on his forhead, who is having three eyes and who is clad in clephant-skio, with gnakes as ornaments, who is luminous with Trisula in hand, who wears garland of human skulls round his neck and who is clad in whlte garments".
Thla description shows the devotional aspect of this Räga. Feeling of devotion towards the Almighty is generally suggested from the combination of avaraa In this Raga. Raga Todi 1a described as "The Todiku who holds Viņa in her hands looks very charming whilo cotertaining the God Hart in the woods She has a figure and lustre like dew drops and Kunda flowers, bogmeared with safron camphor.'84
Besides Bhakti and Karunya, Todi suggests Vipralambha Śmgara which is absent in Bhairaya. On the contrary, the Ragas, taking Suddha Re and Dha arc invariably suggestive of Śrngara rasa For examplo, Hindola, Hamra, Kodara, Kamoda, Chāyāgata, Gaudasaranga, Kaphi, Bhimapalasa, Hansakinkiņi, Bagesri, Khamaja, Talanga, Jayajayavanti, Pabadi, Desa etc,
Damodara describes Raga Pahadi which is sung in the ThumartTappa atyle, as follows. Pabadt, who 18 clad in red garments 18 soated under a beautiful Kadamba tree on a Sricaodana mountain is singing on Viņa, Sho is the beloved of the Raga Śrt."88
The third group of Ragas is of those which suggest Vira rasa. Proml. nent among them are Raga Malkaumga, Marawa, Adana etc. The descri. ption of Raga Malkaumga is as foliows. "Raga Malavakaushika, who has red complexion, who has whito stick in hands, who is surrounded by
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-Samgita Darpana, Verce 197, 34 MS07ETE: #77fafaadu
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.-Sangita Ratnakara, Verso 281.
