The eleventh chakra is called Rudra after the 11 Rudras.

The tenth chakra is called Disi due to the 10 directions.

The ninth chakra is known as Brahma due to the existence of nine brahmas.

The eight chakra is known as Vasu after the eight sons of Ganga.

The seventh chakra is called Rishi after the Saptarshis.

The sixth chakra is called Rutu as there are six seasons in nature.

The fifth chakra is called Baana owing to the 5 arrows used by Kamadeva.

The fourth chakra is called Veda as the Vedas are four.

The third chakra is named agni due the existence of 3 agnis according to our scriptures (namely fire, lightning and sunlight ).

The second chakra is called Netra owing to the fact that we have two eyes.

The first chakra is named Indu which means moon owing to the fact that the earth has only one moon.

Sequence of the Rishbham вЂ“ Gandharam combinations in the following The above given chart follows the notation sequence given in the Each chakraДЄccomodates 6 unique combinations of S R G M P D N.

Repeating the same Rishabham вЂ“ Gandharam experiment withДaivatam and Nishadam, we get 6 unique combinations.

These areД®ach chakra will accomodate a unique combination of Daivatam and Multiplying with theД®arlier division we get 12 unique combinations of S R G M. Rishabham has a lower frequency than Gandharam. Let it be noted that the Raga format has to be in ascending order ofДЇrequencies. There are 6 possible combinations of the 3 Rishabhams Shuddha madhyamam - the lower of 2 ma's (M1), used in the first 36 melakartas, which corresponds to F natural in the Western key of CДetermine all possible combinations of Rishabham and Gandharam in a Prati madhyamam - the higher ma, M2, used in the second 36 melakartas and their janyas, which corresponds to F# of the Western key of C Pratimadhyama ragas based on the madhyamam they use. We can broadly divide the ragas into Sudhamadhyama ragas and The ascending and descending scales must have the same notes.The upper shadjam is included in the raga scale (ragas like Punnagavarali and Chenchurutti are not melakarta as they end with nishadham).They are krama sampurna ragas вЂ“ that is the sequence is strictly ascending and descending in the scales, without any jumps or zig-zag notes.They are sampurna ragas вЂ“ they contain all seven swaras (notes) of the octave in both ascending and descending scale.Ragas must contain the following characteristics to be considered Melakarta. Raga, is a set of scales from which other ragas may be generated. A Melakartha, also known as Mela or Janaka There are 72 parent scales in Carnatic Music.They are called Melakartha Ragas and are systematically classified in a scheme. вЂњpвЂќ with a dot below is the lower p below the adhara shadja.ДЄarohana (ascending Scale): Sa, Re, Ga, Ma, Pa, Dha, Ni,Sa.ДЄvarohana (descending Scale): Sa, Ni, Dha, Pa, Ma, Ga, Re, Sa. Wavy lines: These are rarely used to indicate that the notes should have gamakasДots: A dot below a swara indicates a lower note and a dot above the

Underlines: Underlines indicate that the swaras should be sung together and faster within a particular beat They indicate where to give pause within the boundary of A hyphen is mostly used in varnas just to indicate how the swaras Ll Double vertical parallel lines indicate the end of an avarta of tala L A simple vertical line represents the end of an angha. Lower case notes- Just one akshara kala or note Note the difference in shadjas in the example below. Some websites also use upper case to denote upper A semi colon represents two akshara kalas or space for 2 notes , A comma indicates the space of one akshara kala or note. In this post I have tried to explain mostД¬ommonly used punctuation marks and tala symbols. Often music notes confuse us with the punctuation marks, upper caseДЄnd lower case letters.

Carnatic music theory notes