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Suladi Sapta Tala · 29 aksharas

Sankeerna-jati Dhruva

Also called: Sankeerna Dhruva

Confidence: high Last verified:

Structure

I9 O I9 I9: 29 aksharas in one cycle.

I1beat2233445566778899O1beat2waveI1beat2233445566778899I1beat2233445566778899
29 aksharas. I = laghu, O = drutam, U = anudrutam. Highlighted box = the beat that starts each anga.
  1. 1 beat
  2. 2 2
  3. 3 3
  4. 4 4
  5. 5 5
  6. 6 6
  7. 7 7
  8. 8 8
  9. 9 9
  10. 10 beat
  11. 11 wave
  12. 12 beat
  13. 13 2
  14. 14 3
  15. 15 4
  16. 16 5
  17. 17 6
  18. 18 7
  19. 19 8
  20. 20 9
  21. 21 beat
  22. 22 2
  23. 23 3
  24. 24 4
  25. 25 5
  26. 26 6
  27. 27 7
  28. 28 8
  29. 29 9

Computed tones, evenly spaced. Real singing uses gamakas and may tune notes slightly differently.

Explanation

Sankeerna-jati Dhruva is one of the 35 talas of the Suladi Sapta Tala scheme. Its pattern is the Dhruva tala formula (I9 O I9 I9), and the sankeerna Jati makes each Laghu 9 beats long. That gives 29 aksharas in one Avarta .

How it is counted: A clap and eight finger counts, a clap and a wave, a clap and eight finger counts, a clap and eight finger counts.

The totals of all 35 talas were compared with three published sources (see "How this was checked").

How it is counted

A clap and eight finger counts, a clap and a wave, a clap and eight finger counts, a clap and eight finger counts. That is 29 aksharas in all. A laghu is a clap followed by finger counts (here 8), a drutam is a clap followed by a wave, and an anudrutam is a single clap.

A tala's beats can each be split into 3, 4, 5, 7 or 9 parts (the nadai; 4 is the usual). For this tala that makes 87 parts per cycle in tisra nadai, 116 parts per cycle in chatusra nadai, 145 parts per cycle in khanda nadai, 203 parts per cycle in misra nadai, 261 parts per cycle in sankirna nadai.

Where it is used

No songs or uses are recorded for this tala yet.

How likely you are to meet it

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

Rating 3 of 3 (editorial, a rough guide to how often you are likely to meet this tala): 0 of the songs listed on this site's raga pages (taken from karnatik.com) are in it. A 1 means met very often (100 or more) and 3 means met rarely (fewer than 10). It says nothing about how hard the tala is to keep, which depends on speed and on the song.

Related talas

How this was checked

  • Sources agree: Sankeerna-jati Dhruva has the structure I9 O I9 I9 and 29 aksharas. Sources: Tala System; Tala (music). Generated from the anga formula and the jati, then compared with the formula printed for it in Online Bharatanatyam's table and the total printed for it in Wikipedia's matrix. Both match.
  • Partly agree: A laghu is a clap and finger counts, a drutam a clap and a wave, an anudrutam a single clap. Sources: Talas - The Sapta Tala System; Tala (music). The two sources agree on the claps and finger counts; they describe the second beat of the drutam differently (a wave, or a second clap with the palm up).

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