अनगन्

Raag Anagan is a complete scale with all 7 notes in both ascent and descent raga in the Carnatic classical music tradition.. With its Sampurna-Sampurna jati structure, this raag creates a distinctive tonal landscape. The predominant rasa is Peace/Tranquility (शांत), making it suitable for compositions that evoke peaceful, meditative emotions. It is traditionally performed during evening hours, and its melodic contour offers rich possibilities for alapana, kalpanaswaram, and creative improvisation.

As part of the rich tapestry of Indian classical music, Raag Anagan represents the deep connection between melodic structure and emotional expression that defines the Carnatic tradition.

Anagan is a Carnatic janya rāga with a Tamil name meaning 'the formless one' or 'one without a body' (a- = without, agam/akam = body or inner self). In Tamil Shaiva and Vaishnava poetry, this epithet is applied to the formless divine — Shiva as Nirguṇa Brahman, or Vishnu as the all-pervading spirit beyond physical form. The Sangam and Bhakti literary traditions of Tamil Nadu provided a rich lexicon from which Carnatic musicians drew rāga names. The raag's parent melakarta is not established in available published sources. It reflects the Tamil-Carnatic synthesising tradition in which rāga names carry theological and poetic weight alongside their musical function.