Revagupti

Revagupti (pronounced rēvagupti) is a rāgam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is a pentatonic scale (audava rāgam or owdava rāgam). It is a janya rāgam (derived scale), as it does not have all the seven swaras (musical notes).

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 (audava-audava ragam in Carnatic music classification – audava meaning 'of 5'). Its ascending and descending scale ( structure) 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
 * Griha bala memi composed by Tyagaraja
 * Sada vinatu sadare by Muthuswami Dikshitar
 * Ni vera ganidhi and Purushottamuda by Annamacharya

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