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Mela 27Bana chakraM1

Sarasangi

The name is the number

Sarasangi

Sasa7rara272 reversed27

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

SSR2R2G3G3M1M1PPD1D1N3N3SS (upper octave)

SS (upper octave)N3N3D1D1PPM1M1G3G3R2R2SS

How to know it

Lush and bittersweet — a major scale shadowed by its lowered dhaivatam (the Western harmonic major).

Janyas of Sarasangi

Hear it in songs

  • Menu Joochi

    Tyagaraja

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  • Sowrasenesham Vallisham

    Muthuswami Dikshitar

    Dikshitar composed under the asampurna mela name Sowrasena, his school's equivalent of mela 27.

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In film music