The very first note of a raga can contain everything if it is sounded with prahna.
They say when Akman's court musician, the revered Tansen, sat there and sang a raga for the rainy season, the clouds themselves would come to listen, and bless the earth with their tears.
The ancient temple dance of India is Bharata Natyam: bhava means mood, raga means song, tala means rhythm.
But although a raga has a rigorously prescribed ascending and descending note sequence and specific melodic motifs, it also has its own mood, 'flavor.
I have asked him to play the alap, the opening section, of a south Indian raga for you.
No sooner had the last notes of the raga melted into the tapestried walls than there came a knocking at the closed doors of the hall.
More trays of rolled betel leaves and sharbat were circulated, and the guests settled to listen to a lively raga performed on sitar and tabla drums by musicians who were seated on a small dais at the opposite end of the hall.
Then Fravartis with a few horsemen withdrew to the district of Raga in Media.
Then I sent a Persian army from Raga to Vistacpa, and when it had reached him, he marched out with it.
Abhipâraga answered: 'Do not fear, Your Majesty, that you will transgress the Law herein.
When they had well considered their figures and marks, they informed Supâraga of that phenomenon, expressing their amazement.
Supâraga said: 'Say, merchants, you should now make efforts to turn back.
Supâraga said: 'These are no men nor demons, but fishes, to be sure.
The form Supâraga is Sanskritised wrongly, in order to fit the author's etymological fancy.
So it once happened that merchants who trafficked with Goldland, coming from Bharukakkha, longing for a prosperous voyage, touched at the town of Supâraga and requested that Great Being to embark with them.
The merchants beholding the ship go back, exulted with the highest admiration and joy, and expressing their veneration to Supâraga by reverential bows, told him that the ship went back.
The western coast of Celebes, for about 250 miles, is absolutely lined with proas belonging principally to three considerable rajahs, who act in conjunction with Raga and other pirates.
Among the most desperate and successful pirates of the present day, Raga is most distinguished.
The Raga gave me a pressing invitation to spend a couple of days at his country house, but all the Bugis' nacodahs strongly dissuaded me from such an attempt.
This proa which Raga personally commanded, and the loss of which he frequently laments, carried eight guns and was full of his best men.
Here nestle the principal pirates, and Raga holds his head quarters; his grand depot was a few miles farther up.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raga" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
