Chi.Ravikiran dear, The Shloka of Panchadasha-gamakas starts with ‘Svarsya kampo gamakaha….’. Here two terms, Kampita and Gamaka are furnished to help us categorise these things. More over, there is slight difference between these two. If you go through all the details of these oscillations along with the audio-files of my CD, AMS Easy Methods-2007, with patience and perseverance, you can understand these things more. Till now, nobody ever tried to categorise or define or symbolise all the oscillations of our music irrespective of 15 or 10 or any other number of Gamakas to make them accessible and follow even to a common musician. Even though I am not a competent person, seeing my quest, you may not believe, the Almighty had driven me in doing all such things.
In western music only the shake which we can all it Kampita is used and they won’t use Gamaka at all. I hope you will mind the difference between shake and movement of Kampita and Gamaka respectively. Thus I have categorised this aspect and accordingly while the Kampita has the relation with the adjacent upper or lower note only Gamaka has the relation beyond that.
If we were to go even further, the Shankarabharana Ri starts from S and goes to GRGR and the Da will be like P,SDSD. My only request would be to refer to these lalita-kampita and deergha-kampita, since all these still fall under the broad category of kampita. In technical terms, gamaka (from root word gam - to move/go) is more a generic name which has been incorrectly used as an alternative to kampita for many years.
In this respect I cannot agree with you. If you want to sing the Gamaka of Rishabha alone without mixing it with Shadja you must sing ‘grgr’ and in the same manner, for Dhaivata you, in fact, are supposed to sing ‘ndnd’ but, in our music, as Kakali-nishada must always be the dependent on Shadja you have to sing ‘sdsd’. If you call them ‘Lalitha-gamaka and Sampradaaya-gamaka’ it would be apt but not ‘lalita-kampita and deergha-kampita’ at all. More over, you must note that the Gamaka should always start from the upper note to the lower note to maintain certain discipline.
While categorising these oscillations to make a difference between the shake and the movement our ancestors have very correctly and aptly used the words Kampita and Gamaka. But, most unfortunately, our lethargic and lazy people never cared in standardising our things of our music even in the interest of our kids and posterity. For our lethargy, lazyness, inefficiency, ignorance etc., etc., we need not abuse our ancestors always.
Chi. Arun dear, At the first instance you must know the basic-inter-relation of 12 notes which I have named it, ‘Dvaadasha svaragathasthaana kampita gamakaanubandham’ and furnished in the beginning of the chapter ‘Kampitas & Gamakas’ in the pdf files of my CD, AMS Easy Methods-2007. And then proceed further. amsharma