Carnatic Ragas

Raga List

Carnatic Scale - RAGAVARDHINI (C)

C
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E
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F
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C
Sa
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Ri3
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Ga3
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Ma1
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Pa
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Dha1
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Sa
Ragavardhini
Again a raga probably not familiar to many, Ragavardhini is the 32nd raga in the Melakarta system of Carnatic music. This second raga in the Ritu chakra having mnemonic name Ritu-Sri is referred to as Ragachundamani in Muthuswami Dikshitar school of Carnatic music. Apart from being the name given to a raga, the word Raganandhini also has another meaning in classical music. Ragavardhini also refers to a major part of the alapana of a raga.
Arohana: S R3 G3 M1 P D1 N2 S
Avarohana: S N2 D1 P M1 G3 R3 S
The swaras are shadjam, shatsruthi rishabham, antara gandharam, shuddha madhyamam, panjamam, shuddha dhaivatham and kaisiki nishadam. Jyoti swarupini, the 68th Melakarta raga is the prathi madhyamam equivalent of Ragavardhini.
Ragavardhini has a few janya ragas like Amudagandhari, Dhowmia, Hindoladarbar etc. Shifting the notes of this raga using Graha bhedam gives the raga Varunapriya. There are only very few movie songs set to this raga like Nillatha Vennila from the movie Aanazhagan and Kanna Vaa from Maragatha Veenai. In Malayalam, there is this one song Shabdamayee from the movie Sooryan in this rare raga.
 
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