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1) deepakam

This is a Janya of Pantuvarali ( Kamavardhini ).  Its avarahonam is very similar to Pantuvarali with the difference of an additional Nishadam.  I have heard Sangeetha Kalanidhi GNB singing Kalala Nerchina of Thyagaraja Swamigal in this ragam.  In stead of taking it from other sources, I thought of sourcing it from the website given below where there is an elaborate write up about GNB, the teacher. ( on top of this link, there is a box in which the song is embedded; kindly double click and listen to the song

http://saidvk.blogspot.com/2013/08/selected-ragam-deepakam.html

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2) kumudakriya

http://saidvk.blogspot.com/2013/08/selected-ragam-kumudakriya-and.html

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3) nitimathi 

( janya...hamsanadham)

http://saidvk.blogspot.com/2013/08/selected-ragam-neetimathi-nitimati.html

This is a Melakarta ragam and once again a very rare one to be heard in concerts.  It is also called Nisshadam in the Deekshitar School.  When we hear this ragam, its closeness to Hemavathi and Dharmavathi could be felt. Though there are several songs available in this ragam, it is a mystery as to why it is not being used often.  However its janya ragam Hamsanadam is very popular and most of us immediately remember the popular Bantureeti.

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4)  neelamani

This is once again a rare ragam which is not used often in concerts.  It is a Janya of Sarasangi.  This is also called Neelasuri.  Once song which is often sung in this ragam and which is also very popular is "Enna Kavi Paadinaalum Undan Manam Irangavillai". When I heard this in radio, at different times, the announcers mentioned different ragams for this song.  On most of the occasions, it was mentioned as Neelamani and occasionally  as either Misrashivaranjani or Shivaranjani ( these two are janyas of Karaharapriya ). When I have checked the notes for these three ragams, the difference between Shivaranjani and Misrashivaranjani is very marginal in avarohanam.  Another ragam which sounds similar is Vijayanagari, which is a Janya of Dharmavathi. However the notes for Neelamani are quite different as given below:

As mentioned in the beginning, I got acquainted with this ragam after the soulful rendering of Ennakavi Paadinaalum by Madurai Somu.  I have heard it more than 40 years back at Devakottai in Skandashasti Festival.  As far emotional rendering goes, there are/were very few vidwans to compete with Somu

Most of us have heard Mahakavi Subramanya Bharathi's Ragamalika song Chinnanchiru Kiliye Kannamma. The seventh stanza of this song- Un Kannil Neer Vazhindal en nenjil udhiram kottudadi- is set in Neelamani.  Neelamani is the most appropriate ragam for these lines full of pathos!  The full song is rendered here by Maharajapuram Santhanam