Recently i came across a raga called KANNADA Bangala, a Janya Ragam of Maya Malava Gowla and is very much similar to Malahari..with a scale...SRMPDS SDMPMGRS and malahari..we have SDPMGRS as avarohanam..Very interesting raga and i heard a kriti composed by Sri.Muthuswamy Dikshitar in the praise of Renuka Devi( The creator of Parashurama), a superb composition and i heard this kriti rendered by Mr.Prasanna Venkatraman , a leading carnatic Vocalist (student of My Guru..TR.Balamani and Sanjay Subramanyam) in Sringeri Sharada matt, Chembur, Mumbai. The song starts with Renuka devi and a brilliant composition starting with D, D,..... gives a great effect. This raga closely resembles with a Hindustani raga Gunkari or Gunkali with a scale of SRMPDSSDPMRS....!!! Ilayaraja composed a cine piece in this raga in the film (Tanduvitten ennai---Name of teh song..Kannukulle ) wherein he brigns out the another aspect called graha bedam , when we take 'R" as Shadjam we will get Amritavarshini from the scale...!!!The composition of this song remnisces both Gunkari and Amritavarshini.
After the inspiration and beauty of this RENUKA DEVI song, we requested our Guruji to teach us this kriti and she started teaching this Kriti...a great time we had after hearing/learning this kriti.
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