My fault! It is dhrta mrga.What is 'dhrta kara ' referring to?
Could it be: nata aya kara? - One who bestows good fortune to devotees.vRta hayakara mukha
mukha paramandahAsam is a separate phrase.
Kharaharapriya is one of the earliest ragas known to man - T has composed numerous brilliant songs in it. Since MD and SS were not known to have employed it, the CM world thought it was unknown.So does this explode the myth that Kharaharapriya was unknown before Thyagaraja?
OVK's handling of Kharaharapriya is brilliant I have presented this piece in Carnatica's Album, Sahityaanubhava (taken from a live vocal concert with RKSK and Guruvayur Dorai sir). I have presented the grand rAsa kEli vilAsa in another vocal album (18 Steps - with Delhi Sundar, Aiyappan Venkataraman, T H Subhashchandran and Ganesh Kumar, produced by the SSVT, Washington folks) where the composer has inserted a short chittaswara in the middle of the charanam, as a part of the lyrics (but not as swarakshara).How does OVK handle the raga?