Mela 56Disi chakraM2
Shanmukhapriya
also known as Chamaram
The name is the number
Shanmukhapriya
Ṣaṇmukhapriyā: ṣa = 6; in the conjunct 'nmu' the last consonant (ma) counts.
Every mela name encodes its own number — how the katapayadi sutra works.
SSR2R2G2G2M2M2PPD1D1N2N2SS (upper octave)
SS (upper octave)N2N2D1D1PPM2M2G2G2R2R2SS
How to know it
Majestic and devotional with a martial edge — the raga of Muruga, equally at home in thunderous krithis and brooding film scores; its rasa is Veera, Bhakti.
Hear it in songs
Siddhi Vinayakam Anisham
Muthuswami Dikshitar · Rupaka
Composed in Chamaram, the Dikshitar-school asampurna name for mela 56; one of Dikshitar's best-known Ganesha krithis.
Saravanabhava Ennum Thirumandiram
Papanasam Sivan · Adi
On Muruga — 'Shanmukha' (six-faced) is Muruga himself, making the mela's name doubly apt.
Sugame Sugam
Koteeswara Iyer · Adi
The Shanmukhapriya entry in Kanda Ganamutham, his 72-melakarta cycle on Muruga.