Janya raga · parent: 28. Harikambhoji

Dvijavanti

◐ Confidence: medium Last verified: 12 Oct 2026

Scale

Derived from the printed scale: shadava in the ascent and sampurna in the descent (6 notes up, 7 down); varjya: N in the ascent; none in the descent; vakra (zigzag) in both directions; bhashanga (borrows G2, outside its parent).

Beginner's explanation

Dvijavanti is a janya raga : it is derived from the melakarta Harikambhoji (number 28), which means it takes its notes from that parent's scale. It also uses a note from outside the parent (G2), which makes it a Bhashanga raga: that note is an foreign note to the parent scale.

Going up, its notes are S R2 M1 G3 M1 P D2 S'; coming down, S' N2 D2 P M1 G3 M1 R2 G2 R2 S N2 D2 N2 S. Its ascent uses 6 different notes and its descent 7. Notes of the parent that it leaves out are Varjya : N going up, none coming down. The path is Vakra (zigzag) in both directions: some notes are visited out of straight order.

If Sa is C on a keyboard, the notes it uses fall on C, D, E♭, E, F, G, A, B♭. This only shows where the notes sit: a raga is more than its notes, and its ornaments and phrases are not shown here.

A bit deeper

Its parent. Dvijavanti is placed under Harikambhoji (melakarta 28) by karnatik.com, the source for this page's parent. It uses all of the parent's notes.

A borrowed note. Dvijavanti uses G2 although its parent has a different G. In theory this is what makes a raga bhashanga. No single melakarta holds all of its notes, so its parent is the one it is felt to grow from, by convention.

Same notes, different raga. Madhavamanohari uses exactly the same set of notes as Dvijavanti but differs in the path, the ornaments or the phrases.

Why start here? How likely you are to meet it

●●○ (rating 2 of 3: 1 = met very often)

Rating 2 of 3 (editorial, a rough guide to how often you are likely to meet this raga): karnatik.com's tally of compositions per raga (based on a list of 38,000 songs) places it in the top 100, with 110 compositions. A 1 means met very often and 3 means met rarely. It says nothing about how hard the raga is to sing, which depends on its ornaments and is not rated here. The tally counts songs by raga name and dates from 2011.

Characteristic features

Key notes, characteristic phrases and ornaments are not recorded here yet: they could not be confirmed from two sources, and this site leaves them out rather than guess.

Where the notes sit

Related ragas

• 28. Harikambhoji
• Madhavamanohari

Compare with another raga

Notable compositions (titles only)

Songs listed for this raga on karnatik.com by composers covered on this site. Lists are community-compiled, so a missing song does not mean it does not exist. Talas are as the source names them; no lyrics are reproduced.

Purandara Dasa

• Kanasu Kandene Ata·Kannada
• Neneyiro Bhakta Adi·Kannada
• Pogabeda Ata·Kannada
• Poguvuducitave Adi·Kannada

Swati Tirunal

• Parama Bhadra
• Tarunijnyan Mp Chapu

How this was checked

• Sources agree: Scale of Dvijavanti: ascent S R2 M1 G3 M1 P D2 S'; descent S' N2 D2 P M1 G3 M1 R2 G2 R2 S N2 D2 N2 S. Sources: Royal Carpet: Carnatic Ragas. Only one source printed this scale (no match found in the second source), so it is not independently confirmed.
• Sources agree: Dvijavanti is a janya of melakarta number 28, Harikambhoji. Sources: Royal Carpet: Carnatic Ragas; Royal Carpet: Introduction to Carnatic Raga (the melakarta ragas). Parent per karnatik.com. The raga borrows G2 from outside the parent, which is what bhashanga means.