Ragam HAMSANADAM (Raga of the Week(?))

[Swami Pallasena]

Ragam HAMSANADAM
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Arohanam: sa ri ma pa da ni sa
Avarohanam: sa ni da ni pa ma ri sa
(ri gi mi dhu nu)

A shadava vakra shadava janya raga derived from 60th mela
Nitimati. Svaras taken: chatusruti ri prati ma shatdruti dha, suddha ni
(Ga varjaym)
A vivadi raga in which both Shatsruti Dha and Kakali ni occur.
Jeeva swaras: Ni, ri
A raga that shines in madhyamakala sanchara
(B. Subbar Rao notes that in the Hamsanada as rendered at present,
the Shatsruti Dha is not used.
(sa ri ma pa ni sa -- sa ni pa ma ri sa);
even in this simplified form, it is very pleasing.

Subbarama Dikshitar has never discussed Hamsanadham. He only gives
Nishadam as Mela No. 60 (asampoorna paddhathi). Perhaps Muthuswami
Dikshitar was never aware of Hamsanadam.

Compositions
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Bantureeti kolu, Adi (Tyagaraja)
Neeye Paramukahma, Adi (Papanasam Sivan)
Bharama I Bakunia,Adi (G. N. Balasubramanyam)
Kripanidhe, Misra Chapu (Muthiah Bhagavathar)
SivanaR Maman kulira, Khanda Chapu (Arunagirinathar)
Arumarum, Adi (Arunagirinathar)
Kalyanarama, Adi (Uthukkadu Vnkatasubba Iyer)
Anbunirai, Adi (N.S.Chidambaram)
Kandanai NInaindu,Adi (N. S. Chidambaram)
Bhaskara Koti,Adi (Lakshmi Krishna)

Recently, T V Sankaranarayanan, Mandolin U.
Srinivas, Seshagopalan, etc have rendered RTP in Hamsanadam.
Sometomes Hamsanadam appears as a Ragam in the Ragamalika
swvara segment in an RTP.
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Narayanaswami (sw...@fermat.math.mun.ca)