Purvi

Purvi is the defining raga of its own thaat and one of the few ragas to combine both signature accidentals at once: komal Re and komal Dha alongside tivra Ma. Ga and Ni stay shuddha throughout, which is what keeps Purvi from collapsing into the sound of its close relatives Marwa and Puriya. Six notes rise — Sa itself is generally avoided in the ascent — while all seven appear in descent, where a brief, characteristic touch of shuddha Ma against the otherwise tivra-Ma texture gives the raga a distinctive, momentarily consonant color. Traditionally performed in the late-afternoon sandhi prakash, the same transitional light around sunset shared with Marwa, Purvi has a serious, inward character and is considered less commonly performed today than it once was.