Mela 72Aditya chakraM2
Rasikapriya
The name is the number
Rasikapriya
Rara2sisa727 reversed72
Every mela name encodes its own number — how the katapayadi sutra works.
SSR3R3G3G3M2M2PPD3D3N3N3SS (upper octave)
SS (upper octave)N3N3D3D3PPM2M2G3G3R3R3SS
How to know it
The most extreme scale in the system — every variable note at its sharpest, giving an intense, incandescent character.
Hear it in songs
Arul Seyya Venum Ayya
Koteeswara Iyer · Adi
The final kriti of the Kanda Ganamutham 72-melakarta cycle, and the best-known concert piece in Rasikapriya.
Sringara Rasamanjarim
Muthuswami Dikshitar
Composed under the asampurna mela name Rasamanjari, the Dikshitar-school equivalent of Rasikapriya — the raga mudra opens the kriti.