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Mela 7Netra chakraM1

Senavati

The name is the number

Senavati

Sesa7nana070 reversed7

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

SSR1R1G2G2M1M1PPD1D1N1N1SS (upper octave)

SS (upper octave)N1N1D1D1PPM1M1G2G2R1R1SS

How to know it

Todi's lower half capped by the vivadi D1–N1 pair — sombre, with an oddly flattened close to the octave.

Hear it in songs

  • Vandarul Ni

    Koteeswara Iyer · Chapu

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

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