Mela 23Veda chakraM1
Gourimanohari
also known as Gaurimanohari, Gowrimanohari
The name is the number
Gourimanohari
Gouga3rira232 reversed23
Every mela name encodes its own number — how the katapayadi sutra works.
SSR2R2G2G2M1M1PPD2D2N3N3SS (upper octave)
SS (upper octave)N3N3D2D2PPM1M1G2G2R2R2SS
How to know it
Graceful and quietly bright — a minor scale that keeps lifting toward the kakali nishada.
Hear it in songs
Guruleka Etuvanti
Tyagaraja
Tyagaraja's meditation on the indispensability of a guru — the piece that anchors this raga in the concert repertoire.
Kaumari Gaurivelavali
Muthuswami Dikshitar
Composed in Gaurivelavali, the Dikshitar school's asampurna name for the 23rd mela.