From: cco.caltech.edu!vidya (Vidyasankar Sundaresan)
Newsgroups: rec.music.indian.classical
Subject: Re: Melakarta system (was Re: Koteeswara Iyer's krithis in all melakarta) ragams
Date: 10 Nov 1992 10:06:17 GMT
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In article <BxHCC8.Go2@news.iastate.edu> tmohan@iastate.edu (Thyagarajan  
Mohan) writes:
-          In the new system,PandhuvaraaLi is named as Kaamavardhani.The  
new 
- MaeLa Chakra is given by Govindaachchaar,not Govinda Dikshithar.

Sorry about that goof up. Govinda Dikshita was a different person from  
Govindacharya of the Melakarta system. Also something I said about being  
Pachchimiriam Adiappayya is not correct. Adiappayya was more or less  
contemporaneous with the Trinity. Venkatamakhi predated them quite a bit. 

I think
- Venkatamahi also strictly followed Katapayaadi Sankhya.For that  
reason,he also
- called Kaedhaara GowLa as Harikaedhaara GowLa etc .As you rightly  
said,the 
- `Periodic Table' pattern is given by Venkatamahi where the correct  
Swaras were
- also indicated.For him all the seven notes should be present in the  
raga.They 
- shouldn't be Bhaashaangam.
- 
-         The 58th maeLa was called as Daesi Simhaavaram,not Hamsa  
Simhaavaram
- (sankhya).

Hamsasimharavam also fits in with the sankhya (ha and ma). I mentioned  
this because this is the name I remember from a book I once read. 


not only w.r.t MaeLakartha,his naming many other ragas are also 
- different.Let me add on some thing.
- 
- Venkatamahi         Govindaachchaari
- ~~~~~~~~~~~         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Poorvi KalyaaNi     Gamakakriya.

This should probably be the other way round. Gamakakriya is the name used  
by Dikshitar in the kriti Meenakshi me mudam dehi, so I would guess that  
Gamakakriya is the name under Venkatamakhi's nomenclature and Purvi  
Kalyani in Govindacharya's system. 

- Daevagaandhaaram    KarNataka Daevagandhaari.(Now used as Aabhaeri.The  
original
-                     Aabhaeri uses Sudhdha Dhaivatham,again that of  
Dikshithar,
-                     `VeeNaaBhaeri').

Interestingly, Musiri Subramania Iyer has recorded the famous kriti  
Nagumomu in Abheri in which he uses the Shuddha dhaivata in just one
sangati. The chatusruti dhaivata is used otherwise. 

- 
- Daevakriya          Sudhdha Saavaeri.
- 
- Siva PandhuvaraaLi  Subha PandhuvaraaLi
- 
-       Muthuswami Dikshitar should be aware of the new tradition.He used  
the 
- name Haemavati in one of his songs as the `Raga Mudhra'
- 
-        The Janaka-Janya relation is also different in some  
cases.Accordingly,
- Mohanam is the Janyam of KalyaaNi,aanandha Bhairavi is the Janyam of  
20th MaeLa
- Naareereethi GowLa.BhoopaLam used the Saadhaarana Gaandhaaram(Janyam of  
Thoedi)
- The way of singing ragas are different.Brindhaavana Saaranga uses the  
rare 
- touch of Gaandhaaram(Ranga Pura Vihaara).Senchurutti(Junjudi)began to  
use the 
- Saadhaarana Gaandhaaram.Similarly,Kamaas began to use occasionally  
Kaakali  
- Nishaadham.Many of these are followed even today.The Muthuswami  
Dikshithar 
- School(Kallidaikkurichchi A.Sundaram Iyer)still uses some of these  
traditions.
- He seemed to have adopted some styles existing in Hendhusthaani Music.If  
his
- works are traced well,the origin of CarNatic Music and its styles may  
become 
- clearer.
-       He was the author of `Chathur Dhandi Prakasika'(I hope I'm not  
wrong this
- time).His Raga LakshaNa Geetham,especially in Maayaa MaaLava GowLa is  
very 
- famous.Later on,in a similar style,his son(!)Govinda Dikshithar Composed  
one in
- SankaraabharaNam.
- 
-      More informations may be added on to this.Thanks.
- 
- MOHAN
- 
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