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Melakarta Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | The scales are constructed as follows: out of the twelve semitones of the octave S, R1, R2=G1, R3=G2, G3, M1, M2, P, D1, D2=N1, D3=N2, N3, a melakarta raga must have necessarily have S and P, one of the M's, two of the R's and G's, and two of the D's and N's. |
 | | A raga which has the same scale as a Melakarta raga (or a subset thereof) is said to be a janya of it (janya means born or derived from). |
 | | Ragas whose notes are found in more than one melakarta raga are assigned janyas based on subjective notions of similarity. |
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