Mela 42Rishi chakraM2
Raghupriya
The name is the number
Raghupriya
Rara2ghugha424 reversed42
The second syllable 'ghu' counts its consonant gha = 4; the vowel does not matter.
Every mela name encodes its own number — how the katapayadi sutra works.
SSR1R1G1G1M2M2PPD3D3N3N3SS (upper octave)
SS (upper octave)N3N3D3D3PPM2M2G1G1R1R1SS
How to know it
One of the most extreme scales in the system — chromatic clusters at both ends give it a strange, glittering severity.