Malayamarutam

Malayamarutam is a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is a janya rāgam, as it does not have all the seven swaras. This scale is used in Hindustani music in recent years by instrumentalists. This is a morning raga and regularly used in programmes and functions of the mornings.

Structure and Lakshana

Malayamarutam is a symmetric rāgam that does not contain madhyamam. It is a hexatonic scale. Its structure is as what follows :

[Arohana|] :
[Avarohana|] :

The notes used in this scale are shadjam, shuddha rishabham, antara gandharam, panchamam, chathusruthi dhaivatham and kaisiki nishadam. Malayamarutam is considered a janya rāgam of Chakravakam, the 16th Melakarta rāgam, though it can be derived from Ramapriya also, by dropping madhyamam.

Popular compositions

Malayamarutam is a pleasing scale, but has only a few compositions in classical music. It has been used to score film music as well. Here are some popular kritis composed in Malayamarutam:

Dhanyudevvado by Patnam Subramania Iyer
Manasa Etulorthune by Tyagaraja
Padmanabha Palitebha by Maharaja Swathi Thirunal
Karpaga Manohara by Papanasam Sivan
Karunaanidiye Eesha and Smarane Onde by Purandara Dasa
Thedi Kandene by Oothukkadu Venkata Kavi
Anumane Saamikindha by Arunachala Kavi
Dayai Puriya by Samuel Vedanayagam Pillai
Chandiran Oli by Subramania Bharati
Navaratna Vilasa by Kalyani Varadarajan

Related rāgams

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

Scale similarities

Valaji is a rāgam which does not have shuddha rishabham in both ascending and descending scales compared to Malayamarutam. Its structure is S G3 P D2 N2 S : S N2 D2 P G3 S
Rasikaranjani is a ragam that does not have the nishadham in both arohana and avarohana compared to Malayamarutam.