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Melakarta Ragas Janya ragas are Carnatic music ragas derived from the fundamental set of 72 ragas called Melakarta ragas, by the permutation and combination of the various ascending and descending notes. The process of deriving janya ragas from the parent melakartas is complex and leads to an open mathematical possibility of around thirty thousand ragas. Though limited by the necessity of the ...
Swara (Sanskrit: स्वर) or svara [1] is an Indian classical music term that connotes simultaneously a breath, a vowel, a note, the sound of a musical note corresponding to its name, and the successive steps of the octave, or saptanka.
The mēḷa system of ragas was first propounded by Raamamaatya in his work Svaramelakalanidhi c. 1550. He is considered the father of mela system of ragas. Later, Venkatamakhin, a gifted musicologist in the 17th century, expounded a new mela system known today as mēḷakarta in his work Chaturdandi Prakaasikaa. [3]
Kanakangi scale with shadjam at C. It is the 1st rāgam in the 1st chakra Indu.The mnemonic name is Indu-Pa.The mnemonic phrase is sa ra ga ma pa dha na. [1] Its ārohaṇa-avarohaṇa structure (ascending and descending scale) has all shuddha swaras, as follows (see swaras in Carnatic music for details on below notation and terms):
Mayamalavagowla scale with shadjam at C. Venkatamakhin defines its lakshana thus: . pūrṇō māḻavagouḻākhyaḥ sa grahō gīyatē sadā. Mayamalavagowla is the 3rd raga in the 3rd chakra, Agni.
Chakravakam scale with Shadjam at C. It is the 4th melakarta in the 3rd chakra- Agni.The mnemonic name is Agni-Bhu.The mnemonic phrase is sa ra gu ma pa dhi ni. [1] Its ārohaṇa-avarohaṇa structure (ascending and descending scale) is as follows (see swaras in Carnatic music for details on below notation and terms):
Kalyani scale with Shadjam at C. It is the 5th ragam in the 11th chakra Rudra.The mnemonic name is Rudra-Ma.The mnemonic phrase is sa ri gu mi pa dhi (or 'di') nu. [2] Its arohana-avarohana structure is as follows (see swaras in Carnatic music for details on below notation and terms):
Śaṃkarābharaṇaṃ scale with shadjam at C. It is the 5th rāga in the 5th Chakra Bāṇa.The mnemonic name is Bāṇa-Ma.The mnemonic phrase is sa ri ga ma pa da ni sa [1] Its ārohaṇa-avarōhaṇa structure is as follows (see swaras in Carnatic music for details on below notation and terms):