SSG3G3M2M2PPN3N3SS (upper octave)
SS (upper octave)N3N3PPM2M2G3G3SS
How to know it
Audava–Audava
Jeeva swaras — the life notes:M2M2N3N3
Shimmering and rain-laden — the prati madhyama and kakali nishada give this pentatonic an electric, monsoon-sky brilliance; its rasa is adbhuta, bhakti.
Family
Parent · Mela 66ChitrambariHear it in songs
Anandamritakarshini
Muthuswami Dikshitar · Adi
The raga's defining kriti; legend holds that when Dikshitar sang the phrase 'varshaya varshaya' at drought-struck Ettayapuram, rain fell.
Sudhamayee Sudhanidhe
Harikesanallur Muthiah Bhagavathar
A sparkling 20th-century kriti that has become the raga's other concert staple.