बव मनोहरि

Raag Bava Manohari 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 Bava Manohari represents the deep connection between melodic structure and emotional expression that defines the Carnatic tradition.

Bava Manohari is a rare janya raag in the Carnatic classical tradition whose arohana and avarohana are not preserved in widely accessible musicological sources. The vast corpus of Carnatic janyas — running into several hundreds across the 72-melakarta system codified by Venkatamakhin in his Chaturdandi Prakasika (c. 1620) — includes many raags known only within specific guru-shishya lineages or regional manuscript traditions. Bava Manohari belongs to this category of peripheral, possibly localised raags that have not entered the mainstream sabha (concert-hall) repertoire. Without verified scale data the parent melakarta cannot be determined, so no Hindustani thaat equivalent is assigned. Manohari is a known Carnatic janya of the 22nd melakarta Kharaharapriya (Kafi thaat equivalent), and 'Bava Manohari' may be a variant or sub-type of Manohari, but the prefix 'Bava' and its exact scale are not documented in accessible sources.