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Mela 32Rutu chakraM1

Ragavardhini

The name is the number

Ragavardhini

Rara2gaga323 reversed32

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

SSR3R3G3G3M1M1PPD1D1N2N2SS (upper octave)

SS (upper octave)N2N2D1D1PPM1M1G3G3R3R3SS

How to know it

A rare vivadi mela whose Charukesi-like upper half sits over a tense, raised rishabham.

Hear it in songs

  • Shvetha Ganapathim

    Muthuswami Dikshitar

    Composed under the asampurna mela name Ragachudamani, the Dikshitar school's equivalent of mela 32.

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  • Kalangadhe Maname

    Koteeswara Iyer

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

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