Abhogi

Abhogi (pronounced ābhōgi) is a raga in Carnatic music and has been adapted to Hindustani music. It is a pentatonic scale, an audava or owdava raga. It is a derived scale (janya raga), as it does not have all the seven swaras (musical notes). Ābhōgi has been borrowed from Carnatic music into Hindustani music and is also quite popular in the latter.

Structure and Lakshana

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Ābhōgi is a symmetric pentatonic scale that does not contain panchamam and nishadam. It is called an audava-audava raga, in Carnatic classification, as it has 5 notes in both ascending and descending scales. Its ārohaṇa-avarohaṇa structure is as follows

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ārohaṇa: S R2 G2 M1 D2 S

avarohaṇa: S D2 M1 G2 R2 S

The notes used are shadjam, chathusruti rishabham, sadharana gandharam, shuddha madhyamam and chathusruthi dhaivatham. Ābhōgi is considered a janya raga of Kharaharapriya, the 22nd Melakarta raga, though it can be derived from Gourimanohari too, by dropping both panchamam and nishadam.

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Popular compositions

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Abhogi is a scale that is used for compositions in a medium to fast tempo. This scale has been used by many composers and there are lots of compositions in classical music. It has been used to score film music too. Here are some popular compositions in Abhogi.

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Evvari bodhana, a popular varnam by Patnam Subramania Iyer

Sri Lakshmi varaham by Muthuswami Dikshitar

Manasu nilpa by Thyagaraja

Sabapatikku veru deivam by Gopalakrishna Bharathi

Nekkurugi unnai by Papanasam Sivan

Sri mahaganapathe by N S Ramachandran

Manujudai putti by Annamacharya

sumasara haravara by saint gnanananda teertha (sri ogirala veera raghava sarma)

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Sriranjani is a rāgam which has kaisiki nishadam in both ascending and descending scales in addition to the notes in Ābhōgi. Its ārohaṇa-avarohaṇa structure is S R2 G2 M1 D2 N2 S : S N2 D2 M1 G2 R2 S

Shuddha Saveri is a rāgam which has the panchamam in place of the gandharam. Its ārohaṇa-avarohaṇa structure is S R2 M1 P D2 S : S D2 P M1 R2 S

List of compositions in Abhogi

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sumasara haravara sudati

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adi sri saint gnanananda teertha ( sri ogirala veera raghav sarma garu), the saint composer of 20 th century

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Arohana & Avarohana

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Arohana (order of ascending notes in the scale): S R G M D s

Avarohana (order of descending notes in the scale): s D M G R S

Vadi & Samavadi

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Vadi: Sa

Samavadi: Ma

Jeeva Swaras

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G and D

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