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Figure 21: Swaras of Aditya Chakra (1-4-5-7)
Many of the melakartas have alternate
names like in the example just cited and some of these are listed in
the Appendix. In addition, some of the common ones (like
Thodi) are listed with prefixes (Hanumathodi). This is in
accordance with the so called 'Katapayaathi' formula. Using this
formula, numerical values are assigned to consonants as listed in
the following table (the devanagari script is the basis upon which
this assignment is done). To find out what is the
location of a melakarta in the table, the first two consonants are
deciphered using the numerical assignment table and the resulting
number is inverted left to right. For example, consider
Hanumathodi - the first two consonants being Ha
and Na. Ha is assigned 8 and Na is zero. The
resulting number if 80 and after inversion, this yields the number
8, which is the melakarta number corresponding to
Hanumathodi. One must be careful in decoding prefixes - for example,
Thodi, Sankaraabharanam and Kalyaani are melakartas which
take on prefixes to identify their melakarta numbers but
Naata, Bhairavi and Kaambhoji are not melakartas but
actually janya ragas of Chalanaata, Natabhairavi and
Harikaambhoji respectively. The naming of melakartas in accordance
with the Katapayaathi formula is generally attributed to
Govindacharya. Govindacharya was well versed in astrology and the
Katapayaathi convention has been widely used in astrology for
centuries.
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