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Raag · midnight – 3 am · Pathos

शिवरंजनीShivranjani

Bhoopali with a komal Ga: five swaras, Sa Re komal-Ga Pa Dha, and all of them sorrowful.

This landscape is drawn from the raag: the far mountain rises with its aaroh and falls with its avaroh, and the near hills follow its pakad.

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About these soundsMeend makes the harmonium and santoor sounds itself. They aren’t recordings of real instruments, so they sound close, but not quite the same. They are here to let you hear how the swaras go.The tanpura and tabla are recordings of real ones.
SRGMPDNशिवरंजनी

Tap a swara to hear it

Thaat
Kafi
Jati
Audav–Audav
Vadi and samvadi
Pa and Sa
Left out (varjit)
Ma and Ni
Its hour
midnight – 3 am, 3rd prahar of the night
Its mood
Pathos

Shivranjani has five swaras: Sa, Re, komal Ga, Pa and Dha. It is Bhoopali with its Ga lowered, and that one change turns Bhoopali's calm into deep sorrow. It is much loved in light music, and Meend's library places it in Kafi thaat.

Hear it

Aaroh
SRGPDS
Avaroh
SDPGRS
Pakad
SRGRSDS

How it moves

Pa is its vadi and Sa its samvadi.

Up to komal Ga
SRG
Re, home
RS
From Dha below
DS
Up to taar Sa
GPDS
High, to taar komal Ga
DSRGRS

Its hour

1st prahar of the day, 6–9 am12nd prahar of the day, 9 am – noon23rd prahar of the day, noon – 3 pm34th prahar of the day, 3–6 pm41st prahar of the night, 6–9 pm12nd prahar of the night, 9 pm – midnight23rd prahar of the night, midnight – 3 am34th prahar of the night, 3–6 am4midnight6 amnoon6 pmnightdayShivranjanimidnight – 3 am
3rd prahar of the night, midnight – 3 am. Its hour’s other raags: Bageshree, Malkauns, Darbari Kanada, Miyan ki Malhar, Kirwani.

Shivranjani is played late at night, in the third prahar.

On the bansuri

  • S
  • R
  • G
  • P
  • D
  • S
Its swaras on the bansuri, from Sa to taar Sa: a dark hole closed, a half-dark one half closed. Every swara’s fingering, in your key →

Look-alikes

SRGMPDNशिवरंजनीShivranjaniVadi Pa, samvadi Sa · midnight – 3 am
Shivranjani’s pakad
SRGRSDS
SRGMPDNभूपालीBhoopaliVadi Ga, samvadi Dha · 6–9 pm
Bhoopali’s pakad
GRSDSRGPGDPGRS
Shivranjani has komal Ga; Bhoopali has Ga.

Durga has five swaras too, with Ma in place of Ga:

SRGMPDNशिवरंजनीShivranjaniVadi Pa, samvadi Sa · midnight – 3 am
Shivranjani’s pakad
SRGRSDS
SRGMPDNदुर्गाDurgaVadi Ma, samvadi Sa · 9 pm – midnight
Durga’s pakad
MPDMRRMPDMRS
Shivranjani has komal Ga; Durga has Ma.

Practise it

  1. Long notes on Pa and komal Ga.
  2. The aaroh and avaroh.
  3. Paltas in its five swaras, in threes.
  4. The pakad and the phrases.
Komal Ga and Pa, held
G–––––––P–––––––
In threes, up and down
SRGRGPGPDPDS
SDPDPGPGRGRS

All ten alankars in Shivranjani, to hear in your Sa →

A short aalap
SRG–RS––
DSRG––––
GPDS––––
SDPGRS––
A riyaz of Raag Shivranjani

Meend starts it with Aaroh–Avaroh, Pakad, Paltas in Shivranjani, Aalap and Bandish, 27 minutes a day, and listens as you play: each swara of the notation lit as it is played, the time kept, a lotus grown petal by petal.

Make it my riyazor check your playing on the tuner

Questions

How is Shivranjani different from Bhoopali?

One swara: Shivranjani's Ga is komal, Bhoopali's shuddh.

Which swaras are left out of Shivranjani?

Ma and Ni.