Melakartha Raagas - Why is it only 72 in number ?

Topic started by Darsana (@ host31.mumbai.tcs.co.in) on Tue Dec 10 07:22:29 .
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I am music lover and carnatic vocal student.
I have learnt that melakartha scheme classifies 36 ragas into madhyama and next 32 in prathi madhyama. We have swaras like shadsruthi rishabham, sudha gaandhaaram, shadshruthi dhaivatham and shudha nishaadam. Why are we not having any swaras like mA sang in the place of Ga.
I mean some ragas with swara

S R1 G1 M4(ie G2) p d n s
S R2 G1 M4( ie G2) P D N S
S R1 G3 M3(ie G1) P D N S

ETC. We will have a set of raagas here with all 7 swaras (distinct) in aarohana and avarohana and obeying all other rules of melakartha raagas. In fact some old vidwans (Eg : Aattoor Krishnapishaaradi in his malayalam book "Sangeetha chandrika) have pointed out some of the raagas.
Whay are these not accepted ?
Some people say that you don't get the beauty of the raag in them. But for that have anybody tried out these combinations ? We can very well distinguish these raagas when we read it in instrument.
Any clarification please.
Regards,
Darsana


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