Sunadavinodini


Sunadavinodini is a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is an audava rāgam. It is a janya rāgam, as it does not have all the seven swaras. This raga was discovered by Mysore Vasudevachar.

Structure and Lakshana

Sunadavinodini is a symmetric rāgam that does not contain rishabham and panchamam. It is a pentatonic scale. Its structure is as follows :
Sunadavinodini is considered a janya rāgam of Kalyani, the 65th Melakarta rāgam, though it can be derived from 2 other melakarta rāgams, Gamanashrama or Kosalam, by dropping both rishabham and panchamam.

Popular compositions

Sunadavinodini rāgam lends itself for elaboration and exploration and has many compositions. Here are some popular kritis composed in Sunadavinodini.

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Effect

This raaga can induce the presence of being under parental care for children and experience their affection

Related rāgams

This section covers the theoretical and scientific aspect of this rāgam.

''Graha bhedam''

Sunadavinodini's notes when shifted using Graha bhedam, yields 2 other pentatonic rāgams, namely, Shivaranjani and Revati. Graha bhedam is the step taken in keeping the relative note frequencies same, while shifting the shadjam to the next note in the rāgam. See Graha bhedam on Shivaranjani for more details and an illustration.

Scale similarities