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HarishankarK
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shankarank wrote:Combining first of 1 & second of 2 - Ghost and bull would make - beGada -> peye kada (Tamil)!! :lol: But Ghost and ball not striking yet.
Not correct :D And by the way it's Ghost sings at a ball and not bull. Word bull is in the next puzzle which you have already solved.

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A blue bird that steals the heart.
Neelamati
Neela (neelkanth Bird) + mati (मति)

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manohari comes close to stealing the heart.. though that means stealing the mind. Of all manoharis not sure which one will fit the blue bird.

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shankarank wrote:manohari comes close to stealing the heart.. though that means stealing the mind. Of all manoharis not sure which one will fit the blue bird.
You are on the right track and very close.
I think from carnatic music context budhdhi means mind and manam or mano is heart. Maname - is heart - manadai - also heart, Manase - heart again - are all used in tamil film songs and at times in krithis also.

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Pratyaksham Bala wrote:
A blue bird that steals the heart.
Neelamati
Neela (neelkanth Bird) + mati (मति)
Not correct. I didn't know there was a raga called Neelamathi. Neelamani I know.

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Easy ones! Find the Ragas :-

1) Mr. Cash
2) Causeway
3) It rains cows

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Is number 3 Gowdamalhar?

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Good attempt. But, No.

Clue: English+Tamil

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Is no. 1 Dhanashri?

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Is no3. Kosalam ( Ko + Jalam)?

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And no. 2 - boobalam ( earth+bridge).
Actually these are not easy, after all! :)

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HarishankarK wrote:Is no. 1 Dhanashri?
Excellent; but 50% of what I had in mind.
Shri is correct !

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HarishankarK wrote:Is no3. Kosalam ( Ko + Jalam)?
Good attempt.
Jalam is water. You may look for rain !

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HarishankarK wrote:And no. 2 - boobalam ( earth+bridge).
Actually these are not easy, after all! :)
Excellent !
Congratulations !

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No1 = Srimani?
Didn't know that such a Ragam exists. Thanks to you now I know.

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HarishankarK wrote:No1 = Srimani?
Yes !
Perfect.
Congratulations !

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Simple ones:

Stone elephant (my kids pronounced them exactly that way!).

Ladder of whom?

Fire arm, half a good bye.

Fight, person, fly.

Tranquil, teach!

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Ladder of whom?

Huseni!

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Stone eliphant

Kalgada!

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Fire arm, half a good bye

Ghanta!

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Stone elephant - Kalyani

Fight, person, fly - war-al-i ?

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Sukumar and Ananth,

You both got them. You got stone elephant (kalyANi), Ananth :)

PB would have got my first set of clues for varALi. Then I changed them. Fight and lion (ALi, a rarely heard word in our everyday tamizh).

The clue words are--'give up or take on sounds somewhat close to the exact words! Here are two more:

Stone, suffering.

Way, bhArat, wail.

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shankarank wrote:A dog on a tight leash! - intelligible only to people of a certain narrow state!

<< In case this didn't get noticed as a quiz to be tried - just annotating it once more - it is aimed at a narrow set of forum members from a narrow state of India>>
Let me give out the answer since people have moved on - paTTi viduvarAtu

paTTi - in Malayalam is dog.

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Thanks, Shankarank. MalayALap paTTi! More languages, the merrier.

The ones with sanskrit based words are the easiest to guess??

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arasi wrote: lion (ALi, a rarely heard word in our everyday tamizh).
I think you mean Yaali?

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if anyone wants to try solving these raga name riddles -

1. Ghost sings at a ball.

2. Saturn adorning a mighty bull - Gangeyabhushani.

3. A blue bird that steals the heart.

4. Too many saws.

5. Respect your male teacher, to get liberation.

Please ask if you want clues :)

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ALi is also yALi.

1: 'ghoul'ipantu?
4: bahu, but saws? an't tell (so, can't be bahudAri, which would be many ways).

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HarishankarK wrote:4. Too many saws.
Desavali - the 'sa' avali (the row of sa's).

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No both are not correct.

No.1 clue - think English + English (what sound does ghost make?)
No.3 clue - three letter name for a blue bird, second part you already got that right
No.4 clue - what's another single word for too many, just prefix saw to that
No.5 clue - focus on the last word, it's sanskrit equivalent - the name of the raga is almost synonymous to that word.

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This one should be easier - and covered in posts earlier elsewhere:

Raga name:

Lips never meet!

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Niroshta

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Yes Sir!.

About your Blue Brid - Only three letter word prefixing a manohari is kamala Manohari that I know - I searched in vain in this book for anything matching: https://books.google.com/books?isbn=8120818423 . Seems like a nice book to read to children.

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Look for three letter english name for a bird associated with being blue in colour. Then you'll get it.

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Jay ?
Jayamanohari ?

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Item 4:
Bhimpalas
Palas Kafi

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I know this one would be quite tough, I can give some additional clues.

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So many red herrings for a non-Telugu:
A ragam (not this one),
A day,
The master-lord? (Misheard, probably)
Quick, find the krithi!
(Alone or working together)

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The last two lines point to the ragam, albeit in a silly transliteration.

The first four lines, to a famous krithi. In fact, they refer to the first three words of the pallavi.

Two ragas are involved, one is that of the krithi, other one is a word in the pallavi. Both these are super six level ragas.

The kriti is sung often by the DKP/DKJ school.

Do ask me if you are still stuck. Our WhatsApp group solved it in 30 minutes!

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Pratyaksham Bala wrote:Jay ?
Jayamanohari ?
Perfect ! Congratulations !

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Pratyaksham Bala wrote:Item 4:
Bhimpalas
Palas Kafi
Not correct. Sorry.
Clue - one word to replace 'too much'as an adjective.

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Ananth wrote:I know this one would be quite tough, I can give some additional clues.
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So many red herrings for a non-Telugu:
A ragam (not this one),
A day,
The master-lord? (Misheard, probably)
Quick, find the krithi!
(Alone or working together)
Please give some more clue - it's very hard.

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I think these clues should help you:
"Two ragas are involved, one is that of the krithi, other one is a word in the pallavi. Both these are super six level ragas."

There is just one set of six famous melakarta ragas which have a mathematical relationship. I guess this should be easy. Once you got that, it's just a question of identifying a pallavi containing one of these six raga names, set in another of the six ragas.

The krithi ragam can also be got from,
"The quick grouping".

Important, every word/phrase in the question provides some useful clue to the answer.

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Ananth wrote: 04 Aug 2016, 09:15 I think these clues should help you:
"Two ragas are involved, one is that of the krithi, other one is a word in the pallavi. Both these are super six level ragas."

There is just one set of six famous melakarta ragas which have a mathematical relationship. I guess this should be easy. Once you got that, it's just a question of identifying a pallavi containing one of these six raga names, set in another of the six ragas.

The krithi ragam can also be got from,
"The quick grouping".

Important, every word/phrase in the question provides some useful clue to the answer.
OK, it has been a long time, let me provide the answer:

Chani Todi Theve - Harikambodhi.

A Telugu kriti with a pallavi line that gives wrong clues to a non-Telugu.
Chani - is not Sani (Saturday)
Todi - the other ragam
Theve - for a Tamilian especially can sound like dEvE
Hurry, combo-the --> Quick Grouping.

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5) Saramathi?

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1) Bho-balam --> Bhoopalam

4) Sa-Very --> Saveri

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rAgam : Will cut your hands and hug you!

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An open book ( or an open board or an open forum) exam - just to test how closely people follow various forums ;) :

A bright one in the south that spills into another bright one from the North! :lol: :lol:

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shankarank wrote: 06 Jul 2017, 01:23 rAgam : Will cut your hands and hug you!
Kharaharapriya?

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Yes Sir! That is correct!

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What raga results from the cool breeze of
Image

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Malayamarutham!

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Here's another one:

Very similar to Mountain Dew, it is also similar to a region of Romania :)

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