raagawheel

Mela 31Rutu chakraM1

Yagapriya

The name is the number

Yagapriya

Yaya1gaga313 reversed31

Every mela name encodes its own number — how the katapayadi sutra works.

SSR3R3G3G3M1M1PPD1D1N1N1SS (upper octave)

SS (upper octave)N1N1D1D1PPM1M1G3G3R3R3SS

How to know it

A stark vivadi scale — bright gandharam hemmed in by the raised rishabham and flattened upper notes.

Hear it in songs

  • Kalavati Kamalasana Yuvati

    Muthuswami Dikshitar

    Composed under the asampurna mela name Kalavati, the Dikshitar school's equivalent of mela 31.

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  • Shambho Sadashiva

    Koteeswara Iyer

    From Kanda Ganamutham, Koteeswara Iyer's Tamil krithi cycle covering all 72 melakartas.

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