SSG2G2M1M1PPN2N2SS (upper octave)
SS (upper octave)N2N2PPM1M1G2G2SS
How to know it
Audava–Audava
Jeeva swaras — the life notes:G2G2N2N2
Poised between pathos and brightness — a minor-pentatonic glow that works in all three octaves; its rasa is karuna, bhakti.
Family
Parent · Mela 22KharaharapriyaSibling janyas of Kharaharapriya
- AbheriAudava–Sampurna
- AbhogiAudava–Audava
- DarbarShadava–Sampurna (vakra avaroha)
- HuseniSampurna–Sampurna (vakra aroha) · Bhashanga
- KanadaShadava–Shadava (vakra avaroha)
- KapiAudava–Sampurna (vakra avaroha) · Bhashanga
- MadhyamavatiAudava–Audava
- ManiranguAudava–Shadava
- MukhariShadava–Sampurna (vakra aroha) · Bhashanga
- NayakiShadava–Sampurna (vakra)
- ReetigowlaShadava–Sampurna (vakra)
- SivaranjaniAudava–Audava
- SriAudava–Sampurna (vakra avaroha)
- SriranjaniShadava–Shadava
Hear it in songs
Entha Nerchina
Thyagaraja · Adi
'However much one learns...' — Thyagaraja on the limits of mere erudition.
Subrahmanyena Rakshitoham
Muthuswami Dikshitar
Sung under the Dikshitar-school name Udayaravichandrika, which shares this raga's notes.
Himagiri Thanaye
Harikesanallur Muthiah Bhagavathar · Adi
A hugely popular composition on Devi, often one of a student's first kritis in this raga.