Ahir

Raag Ahir is a Hindustani morning raga outside the ten thaats that uses komal Re and komal Ni with shuddha Ma, Pa and Dha; accounts differ on its Ga. Komal means lowered and shuddha means natural, and a thaat is a parent scale. It is also written Raag Ahiri, and George Howlett lists Aheer and Aheeri.

In the notation here, lowercase marks a komal note. Deepak Raja, citing B. Subba Rao's Raga Nidhi, lists Ahir/Ahiri as S r G M P D n, with shuddha Ga. In that account Sa is the vadi, the most prominent note, and Pa the samvadi, its partner. Raja's 2008 analysis of Ahiri also discusses a treatment with komal Ga. George Howlett gives the scale with komal Ga, S r g M P D n, and the ascent and descent on this page follow his lines.

Raja places Ahir among the early-morning ragas. His list gives Ahir Bhairav the same notes as Ahir, with Ma as vadi and Sa as samvadi. Mohi Bahauddin Dagar describes an Ahir element inside Ahir Bhairav.

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