SITAR (Search for Indian Thalas and Ragas)
Welcome to the on-line Raga, Thala, Composition search engine!
Here you will access a data base of compositions and the associated
ragas, thalas and composers. If your query does not return a result,
it is probably not there in the data base. (We have about 700 entries in
there now). When you do find the
relevant details, please enter them in for others to see!
Current entries correspond to our collections from the
"raga of the week" discussions. Just enter whatever information
you know and the entries that match your queries should print.
For example, Raga: Kalyani and Composer: Tyagaraja
should return all Kalyani compositions by Tyagaraja that are in
the data base.
Hope you find this useful, and I hope to see this grow.
Spelling Help
The database is quite fussy about spelling, so here is a guide:
Composers: Tyagaraja, Syama Sastri,Muthuswami Dikshitar, Muthiah Bhagavathar
Ragas: naata, kalyani, shankarabharanam, begada, Anandabhairavi
Thalas: adi, rupaka, jampa
If you get too frustrated ...
- The database is not case sensitive, so dont worry about that
- It does look for substrings. So if you dont know if it is
Purandaradasa or Purandaradaasa or Purandaradasaru,
please enter purand (Get the idea?)
- If you want to enter a lot of information into the database and
if the form to enter new data is tedious, please send me mail with the entries
in the format:
composition,raga,thala,composer
composition,raga,thala,composer
...
...
Email address: pramila_s@yahoo.com
Search only!
Enter New Data! (You need not enter all the fields)
Data will not be immediately available on the database. I will
incorporate them as soon as possible.