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Mela 51Brahma chakraM2

Panthuvarali

formally Kamavardhani — the name that encodes 51

also known as Pantuvarali, Kasiramakriya

The name is the number

Kamavardhani

Kaka1mama515 reversed51

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

SSR1R1G3G3M2M2PPD1D1N3N3SS (upper octave)

SS (upper octave)N3N3D1D1PPM2M2G3G3R1R1SS

How to know it

Intensely devotional and poignant — the raised madhyama pulling against the flat rishabha and dhaivata gives it a pleading, prayerful ache; its rasa is Bhakti, Karuna.

Hear it in songs

  • Siva Siva Siva Enarada

    Tyagaraja · Adi

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  • Appa Rama Bhakti

    Tyagaraja · Rupaka

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  • Ramanatham Bhajeham

    Muthuswami Dikshitar · Tisra Eka

    Composed in Kasiramakriya, the Dikshitar-school asampurna name for mela 51; on Ramanathaswamy of Rameswaram.

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In film music

  • Om Sivoham

    Naan Kadavul · 2009

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  • Ninnai Charanadainthen

    Bharathi · 2000

    A Subramania Bharati poem of surrender to the divine mother, set by Ilaiyaraaja in Panthuvarali.

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