Gopala Gokula Vallabhi - RAGA NAME?

hariharan · Post by **hariharan** » 08 Sep 2008, 16:15

The famous bhajan kirtan of Thulsidas "Gopala Gokula Vallabhi priya" is sung by sri. OS Arun in his album "Bhajans" . The raga in which he had sung this bhajan song, resembles to be rag Hemant of 29 Mela, when I followed the song in the keyboard. (SGMDNS - SDPMGMRS).
But also at times resembles a Hindustani raga. Can any rasika clarify on my doubt.
The song "Mailee chadar Odke kaise" : Is this song is in rag "Misra Kamaj"? and the Meera Bhajan "chalo man Gangajamuna teer" song is sung in the rag 'Pahadi" Please help.
Thank you.

kmrasika · Post by **kmrasika** » 08 Sep 2008, 18:09

The bhajan is from the collection of poems on kr.shNa by tuLasidAsa called kr.shNa gItavaLi.

I think the rAga is named "vallabhi" (from ShankarAbharaNam scale: http://www.karnatik.com/ragasv.shtml#vallabhi) per Dr BMK but they're others that contend it is ShyAm kalyAn(you can hear the ArOhaNa and avarOhaNa here: http://www.itcsra.org/sra_raga/sra_raga ... raga_id=79).

hariharan · Post by **hariharan** » 08 Sep 2008, 22:13

Thank you. What are the other 2 song's raga. Please post. Thanks again in advance.

sammukeshav · Post by **sammukeshav** » 10 Sep 2008, 10:00

i learned "gopala gokula" from shri O S Arun and he said the raga's name was mishra hemanth.

Samrakshana

kmrasika · Post by **kmrasika** » 10 Sep 2008, 12:26

Not sure about the former, but the latter is a very popular bhajan of mIrA's and is in pahADi.

hariharan · Post by **hariharan** » 10 Sep 2008, 18:11

It is named as 'Misra Hemant' because of use of M2 note in the avarohanam (SDPM2 and M1 in GM1RS) Am I correct?

VK RAMAN · Post by **VK RAMAN** » 10 Sep 2008, 19:19

Here is an audio by Jayshree: http://www.smashits.com/songs/carnatic/ ... ASHRI.html