Kanada (family of ragas)

Kanada (Hindustani pronunciation: [ˈkänəɽä ˈrägäŋg], (ISO 15919/IAST: Kānaṛā rāgaṅg Hindi: कान्हड़ा,Tamil: கானடா, Bengali: কানাড়া)) also known as Kanhada is a group of ragas in Indian Classical Music . They are all believed to be derived from the Carnatic music raga Kanada. Some scholars suggest that all the raga's in the Kanada family are derived from individual aspects of Kanada. Shudda Kanada/Darbari Kanada is one of the most familiar raga's in the family and is considered to have the highest romantic,melancholy and longing aspect of Kanada in it.

Ragas in this group belong to different thaats, but particularly to the Asavari or Kafi thaat.
Sadharana/Komal Gandhar (Ga) and Chaturshruti/Shudda/Komal Dhaivat (Dha) are vakra (zigzag) in descent and are used in phrases like gMR and dnP.