Hindolam

Being symmetrical in its ascending and descending scales, it lends itself very well to improvisation and is therefore popular at concerts.

It is a pentatonic scale (audava-audava rāgam[1][2] in Carnatic music classification—audava means 'of 5').

Its ārohaṇa-avarohaṇa structure (ascending and descending scale) is as follows (see swaras in Carnatic music for details on below notation and terms): This rāgam uses the swaras sadharana gandharam, shuddha madhyamam, shuddha dhaivatam and kaisiki nishadam.

Mahesh Mahadev, Raghuram This section covers the theoretical and scientific aspect of this rāgam.

For more details and illustration of this concept refer Graha bhedam on Mohanam.