Emotional Discovery
Rāga Mood Map
Western music discovery is genre-based. Carnatic music is emotion-based. Each rāga carries a rasa — an emotional essence that resonates with specific feelings. Click a rasa to discover its ragas, hear their scales, and find the music that speaks to your mood.
Discover by Rasa
The nine emotional essences (navarasa) of Bharata's Nāṭyaśāstra. Tap a rasa to hear the ragas that carry it.
Ragas whose display name differs from the catalog id (e.g. Ṣaḍja → Kanakāṅgi, Bhairava → Dhenukā) are mapped to the closest melakarta slot for audio previews. Names without a catalog entry show “no preview”.