Saveri

Also known as: Savari, Sāvēri, Saveri ragam, Saveri raagam

Janya raga of melakarta 15 — audava-audava

Saveri is a gamaka-laden, bhashanga rakti raga built on an audava-sampurna scale (five notes ascending, seven with vakra prayogas of gandhara/nishada descending in its full classical form, though this app's simplified S R1 M1 P D1 pentatonic captures its core skeleton). It evokes karuna rasa (compassion/pathos) tinged with shanta and bhakti bhava, giving it an almost supplicating, pleading quality even in a wordless alapana.

Gamaka

Swara	Style	Hold allowed	Oscillation	Notes
S	steady	yes	—	Shadja is the tonic anchor, sung as a plain steady pitch that opens and closes phrases without oscillation.
r	kampita	no	-40 to 40 cents	Rishabha (R1) is one of Saveri's two jeeva (life) swaras and is always rendered with a light kampita oscillation rather than held flat, commonly in phrases like S R S.
m	kampita	no	-45 to 45 cents	Madhyama (M1) is a principal nyasa point rendered as a long, slow deergha-kampita, contributing much of Saveri's characteristic melancholic weight.
P	steady	yes	—	Panchama is a stable nyasa point usually sung comparatively plain, serving as a steady pivot between the oscillating rishabha and dhaivata.
d	kampita	no	-45 to 45 cents	Dhaivata (D1) is the second jeeva swara and a nyasa point, sung with a sustained deergha-kampita oscillation central to the raga's pathos-laden character.

Common pitfalls

Singing rishabha (R1) and dhaivata (D1) as plain, unornamented pitches; both are jeeva swaras that must carry their characteristic kampita oscillation or the phrase loses Saveri's identity and starts to sound like a generic pentatonic scale.
Flattening madhyama's slow, sustained (deergha) kampita into a quick shallow shake, which drains the raga of its characteristic weight of pathos.
Over-applying gamaka to panchama, which is conventionally kept comparatively plain as a stable pivot between the oscillating rishabha and dhaivata; excessive ornamentation there muddies the raga's stability.
Confusing this raga with the closely related Shuddha Saveri / Karnataka Shuddha Saveri, which share a similar-looking arohana skeleton but differ in avarohana note usage and gamaka treatment, leading to borrowed phrases that don't belong.
Using chatushruti rishabha or other non-shuddha inflections borrowed from other ragas instead of the required shuddha rishabham (R1).

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saveri — Confirms arohana S R1 M1 P D1 S / avarohana S N3 D1 P M1 G3 R1 S, janya of Mayamalavagowla, jeeva swaras rishabha and dhaivata, and karuna rasa.
https://www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2318 — msakella's detailed post on gamaka/kampita categorization cites Saveri's shuddha-rishabha and shuddha-dhaivata explicitly as examples of kampita oscillation (patterns 'S r1 - S r1' and 'P d1 - P d1').
https://darbar.org/raga/saveri/ — Corroborates arohana/avarohana and rakti-raga mood (shanta, karuna, bhakti bhava). It lists gandhara alongside madhyama and dhaivata as characteristic notes rather than rishabha and dhaivata; this is treated as the outlier since Wikipedia and the rasikas.org gamaka discussion independently agree on rishabha+dhaivata as the two jeeva swaras, and gandhara falls outside this app's reduced 5-swara (S r m P d) scope for Saveri.

Parent scale

Saveri is a janya (derived) raga of the melakarta Mayamalavagowla (melakarta 15) — it draws its swarasthanas from that parent scale.

Related ragas

Ragas that share Saveri's family, scale, or swaras: Malahari · Mayamalavagowla · Dhenuka · Ganamurti · Gayakapriya · Hanumatodi.