Gamaka Types

Question 1

Gamaka meaning

Answer 1

Gam = movement

Question 2

Kalapramanam

Answer 2

Tempo

Question 3

Who came up with it?

Answer 3

Sharangadeva in the “Sangita Ratnakara”

Question 4

Tiripa or Nokku

Answer 4

Stress pronounced on a note
“punch”

Question 5

Sphurita

Answer 5

stress when doing jantaswara

Question 6

Kampitha

Answer 6

Oscillation with a higher or lower note
3 types (leena, andolitha and plavitha)

Question 7

Leela

Answer 7

slowly sliding to a second note (4 kalas)

Question 8

Andolitha

Answer 8

slowly sliding to a second note (8 kalas)

Question 9

Plavitha

Answer 9

slowly sliding to a second note (10 kalas)

Question 10

Ahata

Answer 10

To strike a note
two types (rava and khandippu)

Question 11

Rava

Answer 11

Flicking the note up or down

Question 12

Khandippu

Answer 12

When going from one note to the other, using a middle note as a crutch

Question 13

Vali

Answer 13

most commonly used in veena but also vocal when one note becomes an oscillation, the oscillation can be with multiple notes
G,,, to mgmgmg
m in saveri

Question 14

Ulasita

Answer 14

used in veena, smooth glides

Question 15

Humpita

Answer 15

increasing in singing volume by using stomach voice

Question 16

Kurula

Answer 16

a curl circle effect
srgrs in mohana

Question 17

Tiribhima

Answer 17

instuments, strumming that cauing harmonious notes, kinda like guitar strumming

Question 18

Mudritha

Answer 18

singing with mouth closed

Question 19

Namita

Answer 19

instumental only
playing with lower volumer for small note shifts

Question 20

Misrita

Answer 20

combination of 2+ gamakas