Basant
Indian Classical Raga
basant, also known as vasant, is a Hindustani raga of thaat pUrvi. The name comes from the Sanskrit word vasant, meaning spring. It is an old raga and appears in the Guru Granth Sahib, where it is the forty-ninth raga in the sequence. Variants noted include shuddha basant, adi basant, basant bahAr, and hindol basant.
Scale
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Close relatives
Ragas whose scale differs from Basant's by a note or two.
- Indumati
leaves out R1 coming down
- Maruva
uses M1 instead of M2
- Pratapa
leaves out D1 coming down
- Bhanudhanyasi
adds R1 going up; uses G2 instead of G3
- Bhogavasanta
adds R1 going up; leaves out P coming down
- Ghanasindu
uses M1 instead of M2; adds P going up