It then ceded popularity to the modern version of Asavari, which uses shudh ‘re’ but komal ‘ga’, ‘dha’ and ‘ni’. The original version of Asavari used all four komal swaras – much like Bhairavi. Asavari and its clones Jaunpuri and Dev Gandhar belong to late morning. One begins with Lalit at the crack of dawn, and goes on to the Bhairav family. Indian ragas have different times of the day assigned to them. Thanks Subodh for another excellent piece. As you enjoy this post, the experts are also called upon to throw light on the snake-Asavari connection. About the painting, he pointed out a unique feature: In all the paintings on Asavari, snake figures very prominently for some unknown reason. Subodh decodes the similar ragas Asavari, Jaunpuri and Dev Gandhar with his characteristic clarity. As credited by the V & A Museum, this is by an unknown artist from Hyderabad from 18 th century. The beautiful Ragamalika painting on Asavari Ragini, used as the thumbnail with the article, located by his daughter, is from the Victoria & Albert Museum, London collection, available on their website, which I have downloaded with their permission with grateful thanks. Therefore, I was extremely happy to find his article on my favourite ragas without any extra nudging from me. The reason for my hesitation was that these ragas might be too light for a connoisseur like him. ( I had once hesitantly asked Subodh whether he would be writing on Asavari and Jaunpuri in his series on articles on film songs based on classical ragas.
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