There is also the jati.  Jati is the number of notes used in the rāga.

There must also be the ascending and descending structure. This is called ārohana /avaroha.

Another characteristic is that the various notes do not have the same level of significance. Some are important  

and others less so.   The important notes are called vādi and samvādi.

There are often characteristic movements to the rāga.   This is called either pakad or swarup. 

In addition to the main characteristics of raga, there are some other less important ones. For instance rāgas have traditionally been attributed to particular times of the day.   They have also been anthropomorphize into families of male and female rāgas (rāga, rāgini, putra rāga, etc.).   There is a tendency to downgrade the importance of these aspects due to their irrational and unscientific nature.  

All Rāgas have two predominant notes governing the musical scale: these are the vādi and the samvādi.  The vādi is the most important note in a Rāga and this note is sounded clearly again and again.  It is the note that determines the character of the Rāga.  The samvādi is the second note of importance and its position is at an interval of a fourth or fifth away from the vādi note.