raga

A traditional melodic type in Hindu music, consisting of a theme that expresses an aspect of religious feeling and sets forth a tonal system on which variations are improvised within a prescribed framework of typical progressions, melodic formulas, and rhythmic patterns.

In Hindu music, a scale or similar recognized series of tones.

The melodic mode used in Indian classical music.

Passion, love, lust; in Buddhist mythology, a daughter of the demon Mara that personifies these qualities.