| A SYNONYMOUS
RAGAS
As we have seen before,
different names have been assigned to the same ragam by various
sources, leading to some confusion on the part of listeners and performers
alike. This problem is very evident when one compares the compositions of Thyagaraja and
Muthuswamy Dikshithar, since the former used the Kanakaangi-Rathnaangi scheme of
Govindacharya while the latter followed the Kanakaambari-Phenadhyuthi
scheme (which did not require sampoorna melakartas). In the case of Janya ragas also, there are
some discrepancies in the names as well as definitions used in the two
systems. The following list contains the names of the melakartas in the
Kanakaambari - Phenadhyuthi scheme. Some of the names are marked with an asterisk (*) to
indicate that they refer to the same raga as in the Kanakaangi - Rathnaangi scheme. Thus,
Catamaran, which is marked, is the same as the corresponding (56th) melakarta, namely,
Shanmugapriya. Detecting such correspondence is tricky since different
sources often fier conflicting definitions for the same ragam. The indicated
correspondences were obtained after a careful scrutiny of the songs as given in
Rangaramanujam Iyengar's Krithi Mani Malai.
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