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9. Frequency of appearance of raga on IDisc

Order	Raga(Inst)	frequency	Raga(Vocal)	frequency
1	Bhairavi	82	Bhairavi	80
2	Misra Pilu	51	Bihag	31
3	Bagesri	46	Des	29
4	Des	46	Yaman	28
5	Ahir Bhairav	46	Basant	26
6	Pahadi	43	Malkauns	26
7	Malkauns	41	Pilu	26
8	Yaman	41	Bagesri	25
9	Khamaj	40	Lalit	25
10	Pilu	37	Ahir Bhairav	23
11	Ragesvari	34	Darbari Kanhra	21
12	Marva	33	Ragesvari	21
13	Bihag	32	Jaijaivanti	20
14	Candrakauns	32	Kedar	20
15	Lalit	32	Puriya	20
16	Jaijaivanti	31	Bhairav	19
17	Jhinjhoti	30	Maru Bihag	19
18	Kirvani	29	Marva	19
19	Puriya Kalyan	29	Misra Khamaj	19
20	Darbari Kanhra	28	Miyan Ki Malhar	19
21	Jog	28	Kafi	18
22	Madhuvanti	28	Multani	18
23	Bhimpalasi	27	Todi	18
24	Hansdhvani	27	Bhimpalasi	17
25	Puriya Dhanasri	27	Bhupali	17
26	Durga	26	Jaunpuri	17
27	Misra Khamaj	26	Jog	17
28	Suddh Sarang	25	Madhuvanti	17
29	Maru Bihag	24	Sankara	17
30	Sindhu Bhairavi	24	Suddh Kalyan	17

Table-17
　Table-17 shows the raga order 30th place by the frequency of appearance with instrumental music and vocal music of IDisc data. The general order of ragas appeared more than twice are listed in Table-18 (instrumental music) and Table-19 (vocal music), same as DHKM.
 Among ragas at the 30th place mentioned above, ragas appeared only on instrumental is 12, only on vocal 13 and common, 18. Total number is 43. The scale constitution of the 43 ragas are shown in attached sheets. Number of common ragas appeared on both DHKM and Disc is 35. Ragas which did not appear on DHKM are Basant, Bhairav, Puriya, Ragesvari(or Ragesri), Sankara, Suddh Kalyan, Suddh Sarang.(The scale constitution of these ragas are shown in attached sheets). Comparing DHKM and IDisc, the same 35 ragas appeared on both. It is difficult to determine whether "preference" of raga changed with the generation only by this result.
 Raga frequency ranking integrated instrumental music and vocal is shown in Table-20 and the order 30th place in Table-21.　
 Number of ragas to appear more than twice is 234 in Table-20. Number of ragas to appear only once in IDisc is 233 of total 461. It can be said that more than half of ragas are performed rarely.

Table-21
　As Table-16 shows, Sindhu Bhairavi is counted as Bhairavi and ragas named Misra are counted as original ragas such as Bhairavi, Pilu, Khamaj, Pahadi, Sivranjani, Tilang, Kirvani and so on.
This Table-21 shows the best 30 ragas of Hindustani music CD in 2004.