raagawheel

Mela 25Bana chakraM1

Mararanjani

The name is the number

Mararanjani

Mama5rara252 reversed25

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

SSR2R2G3G3M1M1PPD1D1N1N1SS (upper octave)

SS (upper octave)N1N1D1D1PPM1M1G3G3R2R2SS

How to know it

A rarely heard scale whose bright upper half sinks into a soft, plaintive suddha dhaivata–nishada close.

Hear it in songs

  • Manasa Sri Ramuni

    Tyagaraja

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  • Sharavati Tata Vasini

    Muthuswami Dikshitar · Rupakam

    Dikshitar composed under the asampurna mela name Sharavati, his school's equivalent of mela 25.

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