Mohanam Raga w/ Mahati Subramaniam | Dr L Subramaniam | Live at Athi Varadar, Kanchi

Mohanam Raga dedicated to the diety Athivaradar, (Varadharaja Perumal Temple, Kanchipuram) on the occasion of surfacing the idol after being submerged underwater for 40 years.
Dr L Subramaniam is accompanied by his sweet little granddaughter, Mahati Subramaniam (Violin).

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About the Ragam:
Mohanam is a rāga in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is an audava rāga (or owdava rāga, meaning pentatonic scale). It is a janya rāga of Harikamboji (28th Melakartha Raga). However, there are disputes about Mohanam being the janya of Sankharbharanam also because all the swaras present in the Arohana and Avarohana of Mohanam satisfy both the melakartha ragas.

ārohaṇa : S R₂ G₃ P D₂ Ṡ
avarohaṇa : Ṡ D₂ P G₃ R₂ S

The equivalent of Mohanam in Hindustani music is Bhoop (or Bhopali). It is one of the common pentatonic scales across the world and is very popular in East Asian and South-east Asian music, including China and Japan.

About the occasion:
About the Occasion:
Lord Athi Varadaraja Perumal deity of Kanchipuram Kanchi a temple town near Chennai in Tamil Nadu in South India famous for Temples and Silk.
Athivaradhar is actually a nine-feet long idol, made out of the divine fig tree, botanically identified as Ficus Racemosa Linn falling under the Moraceae family. According to legend, Goddess Saraswathi had a misunderstanding with her husband Brahma and in a fit of anger took away his divine wand to retrieve which he performed the Aswamedha yagna in the Athi forest (Fig forest), now Kanchipuram. Aided by the Asuras, the demons, Sarawati runs as the Vegavathi river and tries to interrupt the Yagna, when Vishnu emerges from the holy fire as Athivaradhar. Saraswati is pacified and the yagna continues. Viswakarma carves out a body for Athivaradar using a fig tree and He then agrees to stay in Kanchipuram atop the Elephant Hill.
Athivaradar is a wooden idol lying beneath the water which is taken out every forty years for worship.

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