Syama Sastri compositions on Meenakshi Amman

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Meenalochani
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Syama Sastri compositions on Meenakshi Amman

Post by Meenalochani »

Dear Members,

I know for the fact that Syama Sastri composed krithis mainly on Kamakshi Amman. I know that he also composed some krithis on Meenakshi Amman. Can someone give me a complete listing of krithis composed on Meenskshi Amman?

Thank you,

Meenalochsni

mahavishnu
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There are supposedly 9 Meenakshi navaratna kritis.
The 8 below are identified to be part of this series (TNS has given an extensive lec-dem on this topic. You can find it on the Parivadini channel on youtube). The status of #8 is in this sequence is not verified.

1. mInalOcanA brOva – dhanyAsi – mishra capu

2. sarOjadaLanEtrI – sha”nkarAbharaNam – Adi

3. dEvI mInanEtrI – sha”nkarAbharaNam – Adi

4. marivErE – Anandabhairavi – mishra cApu

5. dEvI nIdu pAdasarasamulE – kAMbhOji – Adi

6. mAyammA –Ahiri – Adi

7. nanubrOva lalitA – lalita – mishra cApu

8. rAvE parvatarAja kumAri - kalyANi- Adi

There are several others. Please refer to the Syama Sastri thread under Vaggeyakkaras.
@mods: could you please move this query to that thread too? Thanks!

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Re: Syama Sastri compositions on Meenakshi Amman

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Mahavishnu Sir,

Thank you very much for the information on Syama Sastri's Meenakshi Amman krithis by Dikshitar

Meenalochani

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Re: Syama Sastri compositions on Meenakshi Amman

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Syama Sastry's Meenakshi Navaratna malika Krithis by
Padmabhushan, Sri Syama Sastry Sangeetha Ratna
Madurai T.N. Seshagopalan with Shertalai Sivakumar- Violin, B. Ganapathyraman - Mridangam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwjrp4k_7Xs
Last edited by parivadini on 06 Jan 2016, 16:48, edited 2 times in total.

CRama
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Parivadini- you have given the title Padmabhushan to Syama Sastry. But he deserved Bharat Rathna.

Million thanks for your webcast of the above programme.

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CRama - I guess it is corrected. Syama Sastri Sangita Ratna is one of the titles of Shri. TNS.

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Oops. I stand corrected

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Title for Syama sastri?!

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