Mela 14Agni chakraM1
Vakulabharanam
The name is the number
Vakulabharanam
Vava4kuka141 reversed14
Every mela name encodes its own number — how the katapayadi sutra works.
SSR1R1G3G3M1M1PPD1D1N2N2SS (upper octave)
SS (upper octave)N2N2D1D1PPM1M1G3G3R1R1SS
How to know it
An exotic, plaintive colour familiar to Western ears as the Phrygian dominant sound of flamenco and Middle Eastern music.
Hear it in songs
E Ramuni Nammitino
Tyagaraja
Nambinen Aiyya
Koteeswara Iyer · Adi
From Kanda Ganamutham, his 72-melakarta cycle on Muruga.
Prasanna Venkateswaram Bhajare
Muthuswami Dikshitar
Dikshitar's school calls this mela position Vativasantabhairavi, its asampurna form.