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Mela 55Disi chakraM2

Shamalangi

also known as Syamalangi, Shyamalam, Shyamala

The name is the number

Shamalangi

Shasha5mama555 reversed55

Śyāmalāṅgī: the sibilant is śa = 5 (not ṣa = 6).

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

SSR2R2G2G2M2M2PPD1D1N1N1SS (upper octave)

SS (upper octave)N1N1D1D1PPM2M2G2G2R2R2SS

How to know it

A shadowy, rarely heard vivadi scale — a minor-tinged lower half that closes on the clashing shuddha dhaivata–nishada pair.

Hear it in songs

  • Shyamalangi Matangi Namaste

    Muthuswami Dikshitar · Adi

    Composed in Shyamala, the Dikshitar-school asampurna name for mela 55; a hymn to the goddess Matangi with the raga name in the opening words.

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