We will now see a few janya ragas of 20th Melakarta "Natabhairavai" (Please see from 58 upwards)
We will now see a few of janya ragas of 22nd melakarta "Kharaharapriya". (Please see from 53 upwards)
We will now see a few of the janya ragas of 29th melakarta "Shankarabharanam". (Please see from raga 48 upwards)
We saw examples of Sampoorna, audava-audava ragas and shadava-shadava ragas. We can have sampoorna-shadava, shadava-sampoorna, sampoorna-audava, audava-sampoorna, audava-shadava, shadava-audava, implying that notes in arohana-avarohana of janya ragas (upanga) that take only the notes of the parent raga can be, 7-6, 6-7,7-5,5-7,5-6,6-5, apart from 7-7,6-6 and 5-5 the examples of which we have seen.
The largest number of Janya ragas can be seen from the melakarta –Harikhambhoji-28th in the melakartha scheme.
We will now see a few of the janya ragas from this melakarta. (Please see from raga 44 upwards)
Now let us look at some shadava-shadava ragas (6 notes) (see above from raga 40 upwards)
Having got a glimpse of examples of 10 ragas belonging to the pentatonic scale we will take a look some of the Melakarta ragas, which are used to generate all the ragas we learn in Carnatic music today. (See above from Raga 11 upwards)
Let us start with some popular ragas with less than 7 notes in the arohanam-avarohanam scale.
First let us start with audava-audava (5-5) ragas.(Please see above from Raga 1 upwards)