Mela 16Agni chakraM1
Chakravakam
The name is the number
Chakravakam
Chaca6kraka161 reversed16
English 'Ch' here is ca = 6. In the conjunct 'kra', tradition counts ka = 1 (not the cluster-final ra), giving 16.
Every mela name encodes its own number — how the katapayadi sutra works.
SSR1R1G3G3M1M1PPD2D2N2N2SS (upper octave)
SS (upper octave)N2N2D2D2PPM1M1G3G3R1R1SS
How to know it
Warm and gently melancholic — a pleading, early-morning tenderness beloved of film composers; its rasa is Karuna, Bhakti.