Mela 50Brahma chakraM2
Namanarayani
The name is the number
Namanarayani
Nana0mama505 reversed50
Every mela name encodes its own number — how the katapayadi sutra works.
SSR1R1G3G3M2M2PPD1D1N2N2SS (upper octave)
SS (upper octave)N2N2D1D1PPM2M2G3G3R1R1SS
How to know it
A rarely sung scale whose R1–G3–M2 opening recalls the Poorvi colour, turning darker at the shuddha dhaivata.
Hear it in songs
Narmada Kaveri Tiranilaye
Muthuswami Dikshitar · Misra Chapu
Composed in Namadesi, the Dikshitar-school asampurna name for mela 50; the text invokes the sacred rivers Narmada and Kaveri.
Een Maname
Koteeswara Iyer · Adi
From Kanda Ganamutham, Koteeswara Iyer's cycle of Tamil krithis on Muruga covering all 72 melakartas.