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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