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In Search of Truth

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Apr 17, 2002, 4:06:08 AM4/17/02
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Hi all,


can someone give me the arohanam and avorahanam of the raag Gara ?

Thank you.


Rajan P. Parrikar

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Apr 18, 2002, 10:05:43 PM4/18/02
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"In Search of Truth" <some...@something.com> writes:
>Hi all,
>
>
>can someone give me the arohanam and avorahanam of the raag Gara ?


Briefly -

Raga Gara (gArA) is a kshudra-prakriti rAga. The Aroha-avaroha
scarcely reveals its nature. Jha-sahab gives it as (M=shuddha):

S G M P G M D N S"::S" n D P M G R g R S n' D', n' S

The chief lakshaNA lies in the following sentence:

M G R g R S R N' S n' D'
(the nyAsa on mandra dhaivat in this manner is characteristic)

A sample chalan is:

S R N' S n' D', D' n' S G, M G R g R S D' n' G
M G M n D P M G M D N S", S" N D P M G, M G R g R S

As a kshudra-prakriti rAga, license is often taken with the
basic prayogas - both through creative phrasing and through
the introduction of vivAdi swaras ("Mishra Gara"). It is an
exceedingly melodious ("karNapriya," as Jha-sahab puts it) rAga.

To see how an AvirbhAva of Gara obtains from Khamaj, see
Jha-sahab's clip (Khamajspeak) in "In the Khamaj Orchard."

Now for a beautiful sample of Yeshwantrai Purohit, a promising
disciple of Omkarnath Thakur and a life cut short:

http://www.sawf.prohosting.com/rajan/ypurohit_gara.ram


Warm regards,


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Rajan P. Parrikar

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Apr 18, 2002, 10:51:03 PM4/18/02
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>Now for a beautiful sample of Yeshwantrai Purohit, a promising
>disciple of Omkarnath Thakur and a life cut short:
>
>http://www.sawf.prohosting.com/rajan/ypurohit_gara.ram


For more on Yeshwantrai, see:

http://www.sudeepaudio.com/artistes/ypurohit.htm


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naniwadekar

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Apr 19, 2002, 2:39:20 AM4/19/02
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Rajan P. Parrikar <parr...@yahoo.com> wrote -

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> Now for a beautiful sample of Yeshwantrai Purohit, a promising
> disciple of Omkarnath Thakur and a life cut short:
>
> http://www.sawf.prohosting.com/rajan/ypurohit_gara.ram
>
The notes accompanying Yeshwantrai Purohit's (lone?) LP stressed his
Kirana link. This LP must have been recorded in early 1960s,
just before the singer died, and it has this unusual feature
(for an LP) that the main raag on it (Malkauns or Darbari)
carries over to the other side also. I don't remember whether
the notes mentioned Omkarnath Thakur; Purohit may have taken taleem
from Omkarnath Thakur, but I think he was primarily known as
Kapileshwari-buwa's disciple.

- dn

ChristianAMR

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Apr 7, 2023, 4:50:55 PM4/7/23
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_a03zDc2Ac - Swar Raag Ras 36 - Raag Gara and its usage in popular music - Manoj Govindraj

ChristianAMR

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDICC1y97Ok - Shamik Bose - Mere to Giridhara Gopal " - " Raghupati Raghav "
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