Sunadavinodini

Sunadavinodini is a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is an audava rāgam. It is a janya rāgam, as it does not have all the seven swaras. This raga was discovered by Mysore Vasudevachar.

Structure and Lakshana

Sunadavinodini is a symmetric rāgam that does not contain rishabham and panchamam. It is a pentatonic scale. Its structure is as follows :

[Arohana|] :
[Avarohana|] :

Sunadavinodini is considered a janya rāgam of Gamanashrama, the 53rd Melakarta rāgam, though it can be derived from 2 other melakarta rāgams, Kalyani or Kosalam, by dropping both rishabham and panchamam.

Popular compositions

Sunadavinodini rāgam lends itself for elaboration and exploration and has many compositions. Here are some popular kritis composed in Sunadavinodini.

Devadhi deva sri vasudeva by Mysore Vasudevacharya
Samagana sunadavinodini by G Gururakacharya
Sanatani sri sunadavinodini by [Kalyani Varadarajan|Mrs Kalyani Varadarajan]
Sri Venugopala by Anonymous
vagadhishvari devi vara-muni-gana-vandite by Bharani

Related rāgams

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

''Graha bhedam''

Sunadavinodini's notes when shifted using Graha bhedam, yields 2 other pentatonic rāgams, namely, Shivaranjani and Revati. See Graha bhedam on Shivaranjani for more details and an illustration.

Scale similarities

Hamsānandi is a popular rāgam which sounds similar to Sunadavinodini and has the shuddha rishabham extra when compared to it. Its ' structure is :
Amritavarshini is another popular rāgam which has the panchamam in place of the dhaivatam when compared to Sunadavinodini. Its ' structure is :