According to the passage, in the North Indian classical tradition, the raga remains greater than the artiste who invokes it. This implies an aesthetic which
Explanation:
Options 2,3 and 4 do not answer the question stem which is to determine whether the raga remains greater than the artiste who invokes it. The passage mentions, “...to an aesthetic that privileges the evanescent moment of performance and invocation over the controlling authority of genius and the permanent record. It is a tradition, thus, that would appear to value the performer, as medium, more highly than the composer who presumes to originate what, effectively, cannot be originated in a single person-because the raga is the inheritance of a culture.” Hence, the correct answer is option 1.
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