A curiosity about AbhOgi is that I could not find it anywhere in the SSP when looking for it - I found Sriranjani, but right next to it where I thought AbhOgi would be, there it isn't. So no separate Dikshitar special edition then... and we may declare it did not actually come from their school itself.
Here's an article by Charulatha Mani on it -
http://charulathamani.blogspot.com/2012 ... bhogi.html
For a rAgA with a simple symmetrical scale, allowing all its notes to be sung with plenty of gamaka or plain vanilla, admitting all the linear and non-linear possibilities that give pentatonic rAgAs their vast potential, AbhOgi simply seems to have become popular only after Thyagaraja composed in it, after which GKB composed sabhApatikku vEru deivam (the story is that he was inspired by the Thyagaraja kriti 'manasu nilpa').
When graha bhEdam is carried out on M1, AbhOgi yields valaji. M1->S, D2->G3, S->P, R2->D2, G2->N2, P->S -- and one example of how these 2 can overlap can be seen in "yAkE nirdaya" (MLV's version specifically) at this point :
https://youtu.be/1P13T9HmgBY?t=179 - that's actually valaji, sounding like AbhOgi.
So more of the recording sharing coming below :
A folder from Sangeethapriya :
http://www.sangeethamshare.org/sripathy ... as/Abhogi/
MMI singing sabhApatikku vEru deivam of GKB ;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K286EizdqvI (avarukku samAnam AgumA?)
Sri lakshmi varAham has been confirmed not to be actually Dikshitar's (or anyone in his parampara), but let's just have it up here :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzGe65CIEFk - MS Amma
MLV giving manasu nilpa the full works :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mWdG27R9vc
And again, giving AbhOgi the extended works :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsiA4O1FPMM - RTP (recording a step sharp).
I was looking for MDR, and I found this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0g18y9il_Y - nannu brOva.
And here's MSG, playing as only he can with a very HM slant :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGLcyqZ5mMs
Speaking of HM, AbhOgi is one of CM's exports to the HM world, where it's simplicity and adaptability has become so popular that all Youtube searches are throwing up far more results in HM rather than CM
- soon people might start thinking that Abhogi is a HM rAgA that is also sung in CM!! So I'm putting this one up here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOliStHosL0 - Oh yes, Bhimsen Joshi! He has sung it aplenty.
However, at the end of the day, my opinion is that AbhOgi has been rather underutilized and under-explored and under-composed in - big weighty compositions have not really been composed in it. And it has always stood somewhere in the shadow of Sriranjani (which is older and still kicking as ever). If things continue like this, HM might explore it more than we do.