Mela 45Vasu chakraM2
Shubhapantuvarali
also known as Subhapantuvarali, Sivapantuvarali, Pantuvarali
The name is the number
Shubhapantuvarali
The 'Sh' here is palatal śa = 5, not retroflex ṣa = 6. The name Pantuvarali is also applied to mela 51 (Kamavardhini) in some traditions.
Every mela name encodes its own number — how the katapayadi sutra works.
SSR1R1G2G2M2M2PPD1D1N3N3SS (upper octave)
SS (upper octave)N3N3D1D1PPM2M2G2G2R1R1SS
How to know it
The tradition's great voice of grief and longing — slow, weeping phrases that composers reach for at moments of deepest pathos; its rasa is karuna, shoka, bhakti.
Hear it in songs
Ennalu Urake
Tyagaraja
'How long must I stay idle?' — Tyagaraja pleading with Rama, a signature of the raga's anguished bhakti.
Sri Satyanarayanam
Muthuswami Dikshitar · Rupaka
Dikshitar's raganga krithi for this mela under its asampurna name, Sivapantuvarali.
Velanai Vere Gathi
Koteeswara Iyer · Misra Chapu
From Kanda Ganamutham, the 72-mela cycle on Muruga.