Hindust(...)n(...) R(...)gas-s Index will prove quite useful to all musicians, scholars and students of music who need to consult the main contemporary texts on r(...)ga-s descriptions, compositions and vist(...)ra-s.

Browsing through the many tables of contents of these works (often in several volumes or parts) in order to extract required information, is a time consuming activity and Moutal's book, although non-exhaustive, will be a tremendous time-saver for consultation.

The present work covers 3 260 bibliographical references of 704 names of r(...)ga-s found in 37  devan(...)gar(...) texts (in 86 volumes) by 23 major authors.