From: tmohan@iastate.edu (Thyagarajan Mohan)
Subject: Re: Amrita Vahini ?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:41:05 GMT

In article <krisna.718901275@cs.wisc.edu> krisna@cs.wisc.edu (Krishna Kunchithapadam) writes:
>asrini@sanjuan (Anand Srinivasan) writes:
>>> janaki@cs1.bradley.edu (Venkata Nemana) writes:
>>> >
>>> >I had a small doubt...
>>> >Are the ragas Amrita Vahini and Amrita Varshini the same?
>>> >If not, what's the raga of "Sri rama Padama.. Nee Kripa 
>>> >chalune.."?
>>> >Can somebody give the details of the above ragas..
>>> >Thanks.
>>> >
>>>
>>> Sometime back someone posted all the melakartha ragas and
>>> some of their janyams out of which surprisingly there were
>>> two Amrithavahinis, for different melakarthas.  I guess 
>>> one of them might be Amrithavarshini (pure guess!).
>>> please correct, if i am wrong...
>>>
>>> Natabhairavai               -20     Gopikavasantham, Hindholam, Jingla
>>>                                     Manji, Amrithavahini, Saramathi
>>>
>>> Chitrambari                 -66     Amritavahini
>>>
>
>amRtha-vAhene and  amRtha-varSheNe  are, quite emphatically,  two
>different rAgas.
>
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>
>amRtha-varSheNe is formally classified as a janya of JAla varALe,
>the  39th  maeLa  rAga.  Due  to  the  use  of  gamakAs  that are
>reminiscent of a ShaT-sruthe Dhaivatha, it is also  considered  a
>janya of the 66th maeLa rAga, cethrAmbare.
   I wonder how you can classify Amrithvarshini as the janya of Jaala
VaraaLi which has Suddha Gaandhaara(r2 as Gandhaara).Also Amritha-
varshani is widely known as janya raga of 65th MaeLa KalyaaNi
though it can be formally considered as derived from Chithraambari.
I would like to clarify this which is similar to ragas like Mohanam
(Janya of 28;can be considered as derived from 29,64 or 65)

>amRtha-vAhene is a janya of naTa Bairave, the 20th maeLa.  It  is
>not  a  very  popular  rAga -- the most famous (and probably only
>widely sung) kRthe in this rAga is "SrE  rAma  pAdhamA,  nE  kRpa
>jAlunae,  centhAneke  rAvae",  by  thyAgarAja.  According to some
>legends, this kRthe was sung by thyAgarAja to  revive  a  drowned
>man  from  near death -- the name amRtha-vAhene is appropriate in
>this context.

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>
>The ArohaNa-avarohaNa of these two rAgas are:
>
>amRtha-varSheNe:        s g3 m2 p n3 S          S n3 p m2 g3 s
>        audava-audava,
>	reShaBa-Dhaivatha varja.
>
>amRtha-vAhene:          s r2 m1 p d1 n2 S       S n2 d1 m1 g2 r2 s
>        shAdava gAnDhAra-varja ArohaNa,
>	shAdava pan~cama-varja avarohaNa.
>
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>
>amRtha-varSheNe is a distinctive rAga, I feel that vejayaSre  has
>some similarity to it in its uththarAnga.
Though in principle there should be some similarity,the sanchaari 
are quite different.Unlike Amrithavarshini Vijayaschree doesn't give
scope for very elaborative aalapana.
 The kRthes in this rAga
>are too numerous to quote.  This  rAga  is  considered  to  be  a
>creation   of   muththusvAme  dhEkShethar,  who  sang  the  kRthe

>"AnandhAmRtha varSheNe, amRtha varSheNe, harAdhe-pUjethae shevae,
>BavAne"  when he was anguished to see a drought ridden landscape,
>during his travels.
>
>amRtha-vAhene  is  not  so  distinctive.  Traces  of   sAramathe,
>kOkela-varALe, naTa-Bairave all appear in the raga -- it is quite
>difficult to elaborate well.  [  For  those  interested,  an  AVM
>cassette released under the title of "thresThAye" features a full
>30 min exposition  of  amRtha-vAhene  and  the  kRthe  "SrE  rAma
>pAdhamA ..." by bAla muraLe kRShNa.
>
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>
>To confuse matters some more, there is  yet  another  name  space
>confounder  -- the rAga dhaevAmRtha-varSheNe, completely unallied
>to either of the two  rAgas  above.  This  rAga  is  a  janya  of
>Karaharapreya and the thyAgarAja kRthe "yevarane nEna encaedherA"
>is a popular example.
>
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>
>-- kRShNa
>
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>|       Krishna Kunchithapadam          krisna@cs.wisc.edu      |
>|       U of Wisconsin, Madison     				|
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   Thanks for giving the lakshana of Amrithavaahini.

Mohan


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