Sarang (family of ragas)

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The Sarang raga and all other ragas falling under this catogery are ragas in the Hindustani Classical music like other groups like the Malhar family and the Kanada family. The Sarang ragas are sung in the time period of early afternoon. This includes mainly of the folk music and songs. The Sarang raga and all other ragas falling under in this type depict the scenes of the Indian historic past events, for e.g. Raag Brindabani Sarang depicting Vrindavan or Lanadahan Sarang depicting Lord Hanuman singing this raga while burning Lanka with his tail, etc.

History

The main raag Sarang was created by Swami Haridas. The associated mythology being that he brought Lord Krishna to earth by singing this raga who took the form of an idol which can still be seen in Mathura. It may be so that raag Sarang is also called as Brindabani Sarang or Vridavani Sarang depicting that Lord Krishna being assoiated as Vrindavan as he lived there. This raag is sung mostly in the Mathura region.

List of ragas in the Sarang family

Following is the list of the ragas in the Sarang Family :

Ambika Sarang
Badhamsa Sarang / Badhans Sarang
Barhams Sarang
Dhulia Sarang
Kauns Sarang
Lankadahan Sarang
Madhu Sarang
Madhumad Sarang
Madhyamad Sarang
Maru Sarang
Miyan Ki Sarang
Raganga Sarang
Salang
Salang Sarang
Samanta Sarang
Sampurna Sarang
Sarang / Brindabani Sarang / Vrudavani Sarang
Sarangi (raagini)
Saraswati Sarang
Shuddha Sarang
Shuddha Sarangi
Shyam Sarang

Note

You must have noted that the raga Gaud having a suffix of Sarang is not been listed in the list. The reason for this is Raga Gaud Sarang doesn't have any characters of the Chalan of the raga Sarang. It is a complete different raga

Detailed historical information about some ragas

1. Raga Sarang - The associated mythology of raga Sarang is that 'being that he (Swami Haridas) brought Lord Krishna to earth by singing this raga who took the form of an idol which can still be seen in Mathura. It may be so that raag Sarang is also called as Brindabani Sarang or Vridavani Sarang depicting that Lord Krishna being assoiated as Vrindavan as he lived there. This raag is sung mostly in the Mathura region.'

2. Raga Lankadahan Sarang - Lanadahan Sarang depicts Lord Hanuman singing this raga while burning Lanka with his tail. In the Ramayan, when lord Hanuman goes in search of Devi Sita, he on purpose, let himself take, by the soldiers in the palace of king Ravan. King Ravan punishes Lord Hanuman by burning his tail. But clever lord Hanuman flies of and with the help of his burning tail, burns the whole of The Golden Lanka ! While burning Lanka, Lord Hanuman sings the raga Lankadahan Sarang. The word Lankadahan means Burning of Lanka this raga was sung with the aang of raga Sarang so it is called the Lankadahan Sarang or Lankadahani Sarang.

3. Raga Madhumad Sarang - The only difference between raga Brindabani Sarang and Madhumad Sarang is the Brindabani Sarang has both, the Komal and the Shuddha Nishad (Ni) but Madhumad Sarang has only the Komal Nishad.

4. Raga Miyan ki Sarang - Miyan ki Sarang is same as raga Sarang. It was sung beautifully by Miyan Tansen and so it is called Miyan ki Sarang. Ragas like Todi, Malhar, etc. have the prefix of Miyan too.

5. Raga Saraswati Sarang - Saraswati Sarang is simply a mixture of ragas, Saraswati and Sarang.

6. Kauns Sarang - Kauns Sarang is just a mixture of ragas, Malkauns and Sarang.

7. Maru Sarang - Maru Sarang is a mixture of ragas, Maru (Putra raga) and Sarang.

Reference

The Sarang family