Revagupti

Revagupti is a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is a pentatonic scale. It is a janya rāgam, as it does not have all the seven swaras.
It is a morning rāgam. The similar scales in Hindustani music are Rewa and Bibhas.

Structure and Lakshana

Revagupti is a symmetric rāgam that does not contain madhyamam or nishādham. It is a symmetric pentatonic scale. Its ascending and descending scale is as follows:

Arohana| :
Avarohana| :

The notes used in this scale are shadjam, shuddha rishabham, antara gandharam, panchamam and shuddha dhaivatham, as per Carnatic music notation and terms for the swaras. Revagupti is considered a janya rāgam of Mayamalavagowla, the 15th Melakarta rāgam, though it can be derived from 5 other melakarta rāgams by dropping both the madhyamam and nishādham.

Popular Compositions

Here are a few songs composed in Revagupti.

Gopalaka Pahimam is popular krithi rendered in this raga nowadays, though originally it was set in the raga Bhupalam by Maharaja Swathi Thirunal
Rama Rama Pahi Rama by Maharaja Swathi Thirunal
Griha bala memi composed by Tyagaraja
Sada vinata sadare and Sharavana bhava guruguham by Muthuswami Dikshitar
Ni vera ganidhi and Purushottamuda by Annamacharya
Varnam-Aravinda Malarkanna by Seetha Raman
Varnam-Swayam Varenyam by Pallavi Subbayya Bhagavathar
Shri Ganeshwara by N. Ravikiran
Film Songs

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Related rāgams

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

Scale similarities

Bhupalam rāgam differs from Revagupti only by the gāndhāram. It uses sadharana gāndhāram instead of antara gāndhāram and its ' structure is S R1 G2 P D1 S : S D1 P G2 R1 S
Bhauli rāgam uses an additional nishadam in descending scale, in comparison to Revagupti. Its ' structure is S R1 G3 P D1 S : S N3 D1 P G3 R1 S
Karnataka Shuddha Saveri rāgam uses shuddha madhyamam in place of antara gandharam of Revagupti. Its structure is S R1 M1 P D1 S : S D1 P M1 R1 S