janya raagas contd........
you might have heard this song 'do re mi' in the movie sound of music.
let us continue with janya ragas. all the above janya ragas i mentioned like mohanam, hamsadwani are in pentatonic scale. that is having 5 notes like srgpd or srgpn.
in carnatic five note ragas are called audava ragas. six note ragas are called shaadava ragas.
that is having 5 notes in both aarohanam and avarohanam is audavam, and 6 notes up and down is shaadavam. we have already seen having all 7 notes is sampoornam.
there can be these combinations also. 5 in the up, 6 in the down; 5 in the up, 7 in the down, 6 in the up, 5 in the down, 6 in the up, 7 in the down,
7 up 5 down and 7 up and 6 down
ragas having less thatn 5 notes are also there but not classified.
now 5 up 6 down is called audava shadavam e.g malahari
5 up and 7 down is audava sampoornam e.g abheri
6 up and 5 down is called shadava audavam e.g koumothakam
6 up and 7 down is called shadava sampoornam .e.g asaveri thodi
7 up and 5 down is sampoorna audavam e.g kendha viksheba
7 up and 6 down is sampoorna shadavam. e.g kakavasantha
6 up and 6 down e.g sriranjani
5up and 5 down e.g. hindolam
janya ragas can be classified into three types.
1.upaanga raga
2.bhashanga raga
3.vakra raga
all the above examples of janya ragas (audava shadava etc) are upanga raga, meaning they are purely derived from their parent raga. that is they have only the swaras that their parent raga has.
a bhashanga raga is one, which has foreign notes (anya swaram) other than its parent raga, either in the ascent or descent or in both. a very good example is bhairavi. it has both the dha1(in descent) and dha2 (in ascent). whereas its parent raga natabhairavi(20th) has only dha1.
a vakra raga is one which does not have the swaras in the order. e.g in ananda bhairavi, the aarohanam is s g r g m p d p s. here before ri, which is the second swara, ga appears. again after dha, pa appears. this kind of misarrangement is called vakra prayogam. so either in aarohanam, or in avarohanam, or in both if the swaras are not arranged in order , it is called a vakra ragam.
1.upaanga raga
2.bhashanga raga
3.vakra raga
all the above examples of janya ragas (audava shadava etc) are upanga raga, meaning they are purely derived from their parent raga. that is they have only the swaras that their parent raga has.
a bhashanga raga is one, which has foreign notes (anya swaram) other than its parent raga, either in the ascent or descent or in both. a very good example is bhairavi. it has both the dha1(in descent) and dha2 (in ascent). whereas its parent raga natabhairavi(20th) has only dha1.
a vakra raga is one which does not have the swaras in the order. e.g in ananda bhairavi, the aarohanam is s g r g m p d p s. here before ri, which is the second swara, ga appears. again after dha, pa appears. this kind of misarrangement is called vakra prayogam. so either in aarohanam, or in avarohanam, or in both if the swaras are not arranged in order , it is called a vakra ragam.
