What are melakarta raagas?t
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Mēḷakarta is a collection of fundamental musical scales (ragas) in Carnatic music (South Indian classical music). Mēḷakarta ragas are parent ragas (hence known as janaka ragas) from which other ragas may be generated. A melakarta raga is sometimes referred as mela, karta or sampurna as well, though the latter term is inaccurate, as a sampurna raga need not be a melakarta (take the raga Bhairavi, for example).
In Hindustani music the that is equivalent of Melakarta. There are 10 that's in Hindustani music, though the commonly accepted melakarta scheme has 72 ragas.
##Ragas must contain the following characteristics to be considered Melakarta.
They are sampurna ragas – they contain all seven swaras (notes) of the octave in both ascending and descending scale
They are krama sampurna ragas – that is the sequence is strictly ascending and descending in the scales, without any jumps or zig-zag notes
The upper shadjam is included in the raga scale (ragas like Punnagavarali and Chenchurutti are not mēḷakarta as they end with nishadam)
The ascending and descending scales must have the same notes
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