DIKSHITAR-KRITIS-ANALYSIS

http://www.medieval.org/music/world/carnatic/dikshitar.html

(best summary reference)

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see

https://sites.google.com/site/cmhm4me/home/melakartha-keyboard

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There are 72 mela-kartha ragams. ( parent ragams)

If we adopt HM notation,

S R1 R2 G1 G2 M1 M2 P D1 D2 N1 N2 S

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as many as 40 of these parent ragams break the rule that r should be followed by g etc,

If a pattern like r1 r2 in successive notes occur, it is vivadhi ragam.

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If we reject them, we will get 32 parent ragams only. ( these are non-vivadhi)

They do not contain vivadhi combinations.

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My contention is that both Thyagaraja and muthuswami Dikshithar, preferred non-vivadi melakartha ragams.

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Which are such non-vivadi parent ragams?

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Let us first see the non-vivadhi with suddha madhyamam ( M1).

There are 16 ragams

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1) todi

2) dhenuka

3) natakapriya

4) kokilapriya

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5) vakulabaranam

6) mayamalavagowla

7) chakravakam

8) suryakantham

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9) natabairavi

10) keerravani

11) karaharapriya

12) gowrimanohari

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13) charukesi

14) sarasangi

15) harikambodhi

16) sankarabaranam

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( non-vivadi under M2) -PRATHI MADHYAMAM

1) bhavapriya

2) subpanthuvarali

3)shadvidhamargani

4) suvarnaanbi

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5)namanaratani

6) panthuvarali

7) ramapriya

8) gamanasrama (poorvikalyani)

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9) shanmugapriya

10) simmendramadhyamam

11) hemavathi

12) dharmavathi

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13) rishabapriya

14) lathangi

15) vachaspathi

16) kalyani

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