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Mela 13Agni chakraM1

Gayakapriya

The name is the number

Gayakapriya

Gaga3yaya131 reversed13

Every mela name encodes its own number — how the katapayadi sutra works.

SSR1R1G3G3M1M1PPD1D1N1N1SS (upper octave)

SS (upper octave)N1N1D1D1PPM1M1G3G3R1R1SS

How to know it

A stark, rarely heard scale whose bright antara gandhara sits over a darkened upper half.

Hear it in songs

  • Nada Nilai

    Koteeswara Iyer

    From Kanda Ganamutham, Koteeswara Iyer's cycle of Tamil krithis on Muruga covering all 72 melakartas.

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  • Ramachandra Bhaktam Bhaja Manasa

    Muthuswami Dikshitar

    Dikshitar composed in the asampurna equivalent of this mela, which his school calls Geyahejjajji.

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