Published - January 06, 2011 08:27 pm IST
Ustad Alauddin Khan. Photo: special arrangement
LEGEND of DEEPAK
One afternoon, legend has it, Emperor Akbar asked Tansen to render Deepak to light the palace lamps. Tansen commenced meditating on raga Deepak, but before doing so he asked his daughter Saraswati to meditate on Megh so that there would be a heavy downpour of rain to cool his body which would have become overheated
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