Tana and Riri

Tana and Riri is an Indian story about two girls born around 1564, who were asked to sing in the court of Akbar.

When Akbar's court singer, maestro Tansen's preceptor died, he sang the raag "Deepak".

The effect of singing this raag is said to be that the singer starts feeling an incurable heat in his/her body.

Finally the commander in chief of their army, Amjadkhan, came to Vadnagar and learned of the two sisters Tana and Riri who were proficient singers and could cure Tansen (expert of raag dipak) by singing raga Malhar.

When Akbar learned of it he apologised to their father and asked Tansen to develop a new genre of pieces named in honor of Tana-Riri.