Rules For Melakarta
Ragas must contain the following characteristics to be considered Melakarta.
- They are sampurna ragas – they contain all seven swaras (notes) of the octave in both ascending and descending scale
- They are krama sampurna ragas – that is the sequence is strictly ascending and descending in the scales, without any jumps or zig-zag notes
- The upper shadjam is included in the raga scale (ragas like Punnagavarali and Chenchurutti are not melakarta as they end with nishadham)
- The ascending and descending scales must have the same notes
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