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THE
MELAKARTA SCHEME
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melakarta ragas in which vivadi swaras appear are called as vivadi
melakartas. Thus all melakartas of
Indu, Ruthu, Rishi and Aditya chakras as well as all
melakartas with Pa or Sha designation are vivadi melakartas. The Pa
and Sha designated ragas have a vivadi swara
in their uttarangam while the Indu, Ruthu, Rishi and
Aditya chakra ragas have a vivadi
swara in their purvangams. Thus, there are 40 vivadi melakartas, out
of which 8 have two vivadi swaras and the rest one vivadi swara
each. If a melakarta system is constructed without the vivadi
melakartas, a number of fairly common ragas will have to be treated
as being outside the system
(eg. Gaanamurthy, Jhaalavaraali). Further, janya ragas like Naata will
have no associated melakarta, exposing the limitations of the classfications
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