nATTai - The rAgA with which most of the carnatic concert use to start with. It is a wonderful rAgA to start with. The beauty of the rAgA lies in the swaras ri and ga. Both the swaras add beauty and majesticity to the rAgA. The concerts if started with this rAgA, will be very appealing.
This rAgA is a derived or janya rAgA of the 36th mElakarthA rAgA, chala nATTai. The arOhanam avarOhanam of the rAgam is given below:
S R3 G3 M1 P N3 S
S N3 P M1 G3 M1 R3 S
Popular krithis in this rAgA are:
- JagadAnandakArakA (1st pancha ratna kriti by TyAgarAjA)
- swAminAtha paripAlayAsumAm - Muthuswamy Dikshithar
- MahA gaNapatim - Muthuswamy Dikshithar
- ninnaE bhajana - TyAgarAjA
- and lot more
Muthuswamy Dikshitar kritis has no demarcation between nAttai and chala nAttai. According to him nAttai means, chala nAttai and he has defined chala nAttai to be a part of asampUrna (or incomplete) mElakarthA. These rAgAs have all swarAs, but not in proper order.
Cine songs like chennai senthamizh from M.Kumaran S/O Mahalakshmi, peygala nambadhe from Mahanadi, First para of the song vendriduvEn in the film Agathiyan are all set to nAtA rAgam.
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