Sucaritra
Indian Classical Raga
Sucharitra is the 67th melakarta raga of Carnatic music, the first raga in the Aditya chakra. Its scale uses shatsruthi rishabham, antara gandharam, prati madhyamam, shuddha dhaivatham and shuddha nishadham. It is rarely performed. In the Muthuswami Dikshitar school of Carnatic music it is known as Santana Manjari.
Scale
ArohanamS R3 G3 M2 P D1 N1 S
AvarohanamS N1 D1 P M2 G3 R3 S
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Close relatives
Ragas whose scale differs from Sucaritra's by a note or two.
- Asrtaranjani
leaves out D1 going up
- Damarugapriya
leaves out M2
- Dhatuvardhani
uses N3 instead of N1
- Dhautapancamam
uses N3 instead of N1
- Dhavalambari
uses R1 instead of R3
- Dhavlambari
uses R1 instead of R3