raagawheel

Mela 33Rutu chakraM1

Gangeyabhushani

The name is the number

Gangeyabhushani

Gaga3ngega333 reversed33

In the conjunct 'ṅge', the last consonant (ga) carries the value.

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

SSR3R3G3G3M1M1PPD1D1N3N3SS (upper octave)

SS (upper octave)N3N3D1D1PPM1M1G3G3R3R3SS

How to know it

Ornate and glinting — vivadi rishabham below, the augmented-second dhaivata–nishada leap above.

Hear it in songs

  • Evvare Ramayya

    Tyagaraja

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  • Varadaraja Avava

    Muthuswami Dikshitar

    Composed under the asampurna mela name Gangatarangini, the Dikshitar school's equivalent of mela 33.

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