Janya raga · parent: 29. Dheerasankarabharanam

Navaroj

Also written or called: Navroj

◐ Confidence: medium Last verified: 12 Oct 2026

Scale

Derived from the printed scale: sampurna in both ascent and descent (7 notes up, 7 down); vakra (zigzag) in both directions; bhashanga (borrows G1, R3 and N2, outside its parent).

Beginner's explanation

Navaroj is a janya raga : it is derived from the melakarta Dheerasankarabharanam (number 29), which means it takes its notes from that parent's scale. It also uses notes from outside the parent (G1, R3, N2), which makes it a Bhashanga raga: those notes are foreign notes to the parent scale.

Going up, its notes are P D2 N3 S R2 G3 M1 P; coming down, M1 G1 R3 S N2 D2 P. Its ascent and descent each use 7 different notes (Sampurna ). 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, D, E♭, E, F, G, A, B♭, 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. Navaroj is placed under Dheerasankarabharanam (melakarta 29) by karnatik.com, the source for this page's parent. It uses all of the parent's notes.

A borrowed note. Navaroj uses G1, R3 and N2 although its parent has a different G, a different R and a different N. 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.

Other names. Sources also give these names or spellings: Navroj.

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 135 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

• 29. Dheerasankarabharanam

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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.

Annamacharya

• Jo Accutananda Lali Telugu

How this was checked

• Sources agree: Scale of Navaroj: ascent P D2 N3 S R2 G3 M1 P; descent M1 G1 R3 S N2 D2 P. Sources: Royal Carpet: Carnatic Ragas; List of Janya ragas. The ascent and descent printed by karnatik.com match the scale in Wikipedia's table.
• Sources agree: Navaroj is a janya of melakarta number 29, Dheerasankarabharanam. Sources: Royal Carpet: Carnatic Ragas; Royal Carpet: Introduction to Carnatic Raga (the melakarta ragas). Parent per karnatik.com. The raga borrows G1, R3 and N2 from outside the parent, which is what bhashanga means.