Mohanam

Mohanam (Kannada: ಮೋಹನ; Tamil: மொஹனம், mullaippann) is a rāgam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music).One of the first scales employed by the ancient Tamils was the Mullaippann(3BCE), a pentatonic scale composed of the notes sa ri ga pa da equivalent to C, D, E, G and A in the western notations. These fully harmonic scales, constitutes the raga Mohanam in the Carnatic music style.It is an audava rāgam (or owdava rāgam, meaning pentatonic scale). It is a janya rāgam (derived scale), as it does not have all the seven swaras (musical notes).