Mela 64Rudra chakraM2
Vachaspati
The name is the number
Vachaspati
Vava4chaca646 reversed64
English 'ch' here is ca = 6 (vācaspati), not cha = 7.
Every mela name encodes its own number — how the katapayadi sutra works.
SSR2R2G3G3M2M2PPD2D2N2N2SS (upper octave)
SS (upper octave)N2N2D2D2PPM2M2G3G3R2R2SS
How to know it
Broad, sunny and expansive — a major scale with a lifted fourth and a softened seventh.
Hear it in songs
Pahi Jagajjanani
Swati Tirunal
One of the most performed Vachaspati kritis on the concert stage.
Paratpara Parameshwara
Papanasam Sivan
Bhushavatim
Muthuswami Dikshitar
Composed under the asampurna mela name Bhushavati, the Dikshitar-school equivalent of Vachaspati.
Iha Para Sukha
Koteeswara Iyer · Rupaka
The Vachaspati entry in the Kanda Ganamutham 72-melakarta cycle.