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After finding out how a raaga can make you feel, you are not ready to perform it yet. Each raaga actually has an appropriate time to be performed!

Here is a brief compilation of the times and some raagas corresponding to them. You can find more about each time in the glossary.

Time of day	Time	Ragas
Early Morning	before sunrise 4-6am	ghanakaala raagas bhoopaaLam bowLi
Morning	after sunrise 6-9am	bilahari dhanyaasi kEdaaram
Forenoon	before noon 9am-noon	asaavEri dEva manOhari saavEri
Midday	noon-1pm	madyamaavati maNirangu shree
Afternoon	1-4pm	bEgaDa mukhaari
Evening	end of day 4-7pm	ghanakaala raagas aananda bhairavi naaTTai kurinji poorvi kalyaaNi shanmugapriyaa vasantaa
Night	7-10pm	kEdaara gowLa neelaambari
Sarvakaalika	any time of day	bhairavi kaambhOji kalyaaNi shankaraabharaNam

The last set, the sarvakaalika raagas, are common raagas and can be performed at any time.

You'll find that compositions are also composed - many lullabies are sung at night and are therefore composed in neelaambari. Other songs are morning songs and composed in bhoopaaLam.

Performers always conclude a concert with madyamaavati. Though it is intended to be a midday raaga, it is said to appease the gods and nullify any inconsistencies in singing raagas at the wrong time.

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