Multani (raga)

Multani is a Hindustani classical raga. The newer raga Madhuvanti was inspired by Multani.

Re, Ga, Dha komal and Ma tivra.

Re and Dha should be weak.

Vadi - Pa

Samvadi - Sa

Arohana - Ni Sa Ma ga Ma Pa Ni Sa

Avarohana - Sa Ni dha Pa Ma ga re Sa

Pakad - Ni Sa Ma Ga Ma Pa Ma Ga Ma Ga Re Sa

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Multani

Multani may refer to:

Saraiki dialect

Saraiki (Shahmukhi: سرائیکی), is the southern dialect of Western Punjabi of the Indo-Aryan language family. It is spoken by 20 million people (2013) across the South Punjab, southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and border regions of North Sindh and Eastern Balochistan, with some 70,000 migrants and their descendants in India, who migrated as a result of the partition of British India, as well as overseas, especially in the Middle East. Saraiki is also spoken by some Hindus in Afghanistan, though the number there is unknown.

It follows the standardized Punjabi Shahmukhi script for writing. The name "Saraiki" (or variant spellings) was formally adopted in the 1960s by regional social and political leaders who undertook to promote Saraiki dialects of the Punjabi language.

Etymology

The word sarāiki likely originated from sauvīrā, or Sauvira, a kingdom name in ancient India which was also mentioned in the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata. By adding adjectival suffix -kī to the word sauvīrā it became sauvīrakī. The consonant v with its neighboring vowels was dropped for simplification and hence the name became sarāiki. Although George Abraham Grierson reported that sirāiki (that was the spelling he used) is from a Sindhi word sirō, meaning "of the north, northern", Shackle asserts that this etymology is unverified. Another view is that sarāiki originates from the word sarai.

Multani (caste)

The Multani are a Muslim, Sikh and Hindu community found in the states of Gujarat and Punjab in India.

History and origin

The community derives its name from the city of Multan, situated in Pakistan. Multani literally means an inhabitant of the city of Multan. They are said to have immigrated from Multan during the reign of Sultan Mahmud Begada. The Multani are said to have originally belonged to the cotton/ salt traders community. They are further divided into four territorial groupings, the Zhalmed (those from Ahmadabad, the Gohilvad (from Surat), the Chorasi (from Rajkot) and the Kathiawari (from Kathiawar). Each division consists of ten to twelwe clans. For example, the Zhalmed Multanis have the following clans, the Hamod, Makhyola, Chauhan, Phor, Ghori, Vakani, Phanota and Solanki. Like many Gujarati Muslim communitues, they maintain the principles of gotra exogamy.

The ruling family of the former princely state of Zainabad were members of the Multani lineage.

Present circumstances