Royal Carpet: Introduction to Carnatic Raga (the melakarta ragas)
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- Type
- website
- Level
- beginner
- Language
- en
- Cost
- free
- Topics
- melakarta, raga, katapayadi, chakra
What it is
A beginner-oriented page that tabulates the 72 melakartas by chakra with each raga's Ri, Ga, Dha and Ni variants and alternate names, and explains the katapayadi naming.
Why it is useful here
A second, separately compiled table of the 72 scales, used to cross-check the generated scales, and the source of alternate names.
Used on these pages
- 247 raga pages
- The 72-scale scheme
- Arohanam, avarohanam and scale shapes
- Parent and derived ragas
- The seven swaras
- The twelve swarasthanas
Verification
Status verified, checked on by http-fetch. Downloaded the page; the HTML title is 'Royal Carpet: Introduction to Carnatic Raga' and the page is headed 'The melakarta raagas'. All 72 entries were parsed and compared with the generated scales: 72 of 72 agree. The page footer shows 'updated on 09/24/2019'.