Gowri Ragam

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sekhart
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Gowri Ragam

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Hello All

Namastay. I saw in SangeetaSampradaayaPradarsini that the raga Gowri is Bhashanga. Am not referring to GowriVElavali or GowriManohari. Am referring to Gowri. I saw a couple of people singing this in sangeethapriya.org (dikshitar's gowri giriraja), but, they are singing the song just like saveri and mayamalawagowla. Incidentally Gowri is a janya of mayamalawagowla.

In which swaram is Gowri bhashanga?
Secondly, can someone point me to a good sketch of this ragam? Thank u

Sekhar

ratanabhinav
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Re: Gowri Ragam

Post by ratanabhinav »

Vanakkam thiru. Sekar
Gowri is janya of 15 malavagowla
It has arohana avarohana S R1 M1 P N3 S/N3 D1 P M1 G3 R1 S
Suddha rishabam, shuddha madhyamam, antara gandharam, shuddha daivatam kakali nishadam feature in this ragam
Yes,
The song gowri girirajakumari is by dikshitar. It is a rare song

Here i have a link to rendition of Gowri Girirajakumari by Smt. Kalpakam Swaminathan. She is an authority on such compositions.

https://youtu.be/rJ7JGp3zH0M
I am indeed baffled on seeing arohana avarohana of gowri is Sangeeta Sampradaya Pradarshni. It is given as s r m p d n s/s n d p m m p m g r s. Here is the link http://ibiblio.org/guruguha/ssp_7to12.pdf.
I want to point out to you that there are many more such paradoxes I have seen, I have written about in my post http://www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=27649

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