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Mela 71Aditya chakraM2

Kosalam

also known as Kosala

The name is the number

Kosalam

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

SSR3R3G3G3M2M2PPD2D2N3N3SS (upper octave)

SS (upper octave)N3N3D2D2PPM2M2G3G3R3R3SS

How to know it

A near-Kalyani glow with a sudden vivadi glint at the second step.

Hear it in songs

  • Ka Guha Shanmukha

    Koteeswara Iyer · Rupaka

    The Kosalam entry in the Kanda Ganamutham 72-melakarta cycle.

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  • Kusumakara Shobhita

    Muthuswami Dikshitar

    Composed under the asampurna mela name Kusumakaram, the Dikshitar-school equivalent of Kosalam.

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In film music

  • Sundari Kannal Oru Seithi

    Thalapathi · 1991

    Famously weaves Kosalam together with Kalyani — an obscure vivadi mela smuggled into one of Tamil cinema's most loved songs.

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