Mela 57Disi chakraM2
Simhendramadhyamam
also known as Sumadyuti
The name is the number
Simhendramadhyamam
Traditionally analyzed si = sa = 7, and 'mhe' read as ma = 5 (the ha of the cluster is discounted).
Every mela name encodes its own number — how the katapayadi sutra works.
SSR2R2G2G2M2M2PPD1D1N3N3SS (upper octave)
SS (upper octave)N3N3D1D1PPM2M2G2G2R2R2SS
How to know it
Grand and plaintive at once — a harmonic-minor darkness lifted by the prati madhyama, suited to slow, weighty elaboration; its rasa is Karuna, Bhakti.
Hear it in songs
Needu Charanamule
Tyagaraja · Misra Chapu
Ninne Nammitinayya
Mysore Vasudevachar · Misra Chapu
Perhaps the most performed Simhendramadhyamam krithi on today's concert stage.
Kamakshi Kamakoti Peethavasini
Muthuswami Dikshitar · Rupaka
Composed in Sumadyuti, the Dikshitar-school asampurna name for mela 57.
Rama Rama Guna Seema
Swati Tirunal · Adi
Unnaiyallal
Koteeswara Iyer · Adi
From Kanda Ganamutham, his 72-melakarta cycle.