In Indian classical music: each of a number of melodic types used as tonal frameworks for composition and improvisation, based on a particular…

In Indian music: = raga, n.

A scale used in Indian music.

Any of various classes or categories in Indian classical music; esp. (a) (chiefly with reference to early Indian music) each of a number of…

In Indian music: each of the fourteen scales of seven notes which start on one of the seven notes of either of the two grama (roughly comparable to…

In Carnatic music: a scale type around which a raga is formed. Cf. raga, n.