Swathi Thirunal

Carnatic composers (other than performing vidwans)
rshankar
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Post by rshankar »

arasi wrote:He did, perhaps...
Who is the 'he'? The Prince or the maharAjA?

arasi
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Post by arasi »

Ravi,
The prince...

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Post by Lakshman »

Umesh wrote:
There is a famous jathiswaram in ragamalikai/m.chapu known to dancers. It is a composition of the Thanjavur quartette... or so I thought, until I heard this:

http://www.swathithirunal.in/htmlfile/265.htm
The jatisvaram in question is in the book "Tha Tanjore Quartette" by K.P.Kittappa & K.P.Sivanandam.
I think many of the tanjai nAlvar's compositions are attributed to ST.

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rshankar
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In a book written by Smt. Mrinalini Sarabhai (Darpana Publication) on bharatanATyam, she mentions that Sri Swati Tirunal composed in hindi, malayalam, telugu, tamizh and marAThi.

Can we have examples of his compositions in tamizh and marAThi?

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Post by keerthi »

Vidya Raja wrote:Hi,

I want the recording of the kriti "Pahi tarakshupuralaya" in raga Jaganmohini - Adi - Swati Tirunal.

swathitirunal.org, has the lyrics in malayalam and also no mp3 is available. Please help
look at the following url - it gives a charsur release where Smt. parassala ponnammal has sung the song you want.. You can buy either the CD or the song alone..

http://www.charsur.com/charsur/index.ph ... ts_id=2710

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rshankar wrote:In a book written by Smt. Mrinalini Sarabhai (Darpana Publication) on bharatanATyam, she mentions that Sri Swati Tirunal composed in hindi, malayalam, telugu, tamizh and marAThi.

Can we have examples of his compositions in tamizh and marAThi?

In compilations of ST's songs, are included songs composed by scholars he patronised; and some of these may have been in TamiL and marAThi..

1. TKGovinda rao's book gives a TamiL varNaM - sAmi unnaiyE nAn migacvum nambinEnE.. couldn't find any marAthi..

ragam-talam
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Post by ragam-talam »

A 4-part documentary on ST is now available at youtube:
Part 1/4 ; Part 2/4 ; Part 3/4 ; Part 4/4
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R-T: The first link takes us to Pandit Jasraj's Bhairav.

Here is a link to the Part1: http://www.youtube.com/user/Musique4eve ... RTJT_Pfq3w

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sorry about that... corrected.

ksrimech
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Post by ksrimech »

Thanks R-T

vidya
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Post by vidya »

MuhanaprasAntyaprAsa vyavastha is a sanskrta work on prosody attributed to Swati Tirunal.
It deals with the alankaras of muhana, prasa and antyaprasa in musical compositions in sanskrta.The examples that are cited in this work are from the compositions of mArgadarshi seShayyangar (introduced in the first paragraph as 'Sesha ramanuja kavi). And this work also provides us a source to validate and identify some of seShayyangar's compositions.

Thanks to Dr.P.P.Narayanaswami for making this work available. (A translation effort is underway and will be made available soon)

http://guruguha.org/wp-content/uploads/ ... muhana.pdf

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Post by mannari »

dear madams and sirs, I think T K Govinda Rao's "Compositions of Maharaja Swathi Thirunal " is an authority and contains almost all the compositions of the genius in detail written in the language of that particular composition, Engilish and in Sanskrit

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Post by charuraghavan »

Hi Folks,
Could somebody please enlighten me about the Hindustani compositions of this prince among poets?

Regards,
Charu

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Post by abhiadya »

Hi,

I am looking for mamavasada janani in kanada ragam with notations, any help in this regard would be of great help. If available in any book, please let me know the book name.

Ananth

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Post by mohan »

abhiadya - T K Govinda Rao's book "Compositions of Maharaja Swathi Thirunal" has notation for most of Swati Tirunal's compositions

USrasika
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Post by USrasika »

Dear all,
Does anyone have the lyrics to "Ambhoja Nabha"?
Thanks!
Hari.

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USrasika wrote: Does anyone have the lyrics to "Ambhoja Nabha"?
Lyrics courtesy of Sri Lakshman Ragde:

ambhOjamAbha. rAgA: bhairavi. tripuTa tALA.

P: ambhOjanAbha mAm pAlaya satatam ambhOjAlayAjAnE
A: jambhavairi vandita jalaja lOla lOcana kumbha sambhava vinuta kuntIsuta sArathE
C1: bhujanga shayana hari krSNa bhujanga vairiratha gOpi
bhujanga bhAma sangaranga bhujangavara kAliyadamana
bhujanga lOka vAsinuta bhujanga varada dEva dEva
bhujanga bhUSaNa sannuta lIla bhujanga rUpa sankarSaNa
2: lOla lOla vanamAla nIla surabhilavAla
lAlasita nija jAla pAlitasura vairi jAla
bAla sUrya sama cEla bAlagOpa dhrtashaila
pAlita gO gOpAla jAla jita shishupAla


Dr BMK has retuned this in kharaharapriya rAga, misra capu tAla. You can find his version on youtube.

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Thanks! Yes, I was there in thiruvananthapuram for it!

USrasika
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though i remember it being longer (more lyrics) when I heard it...

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Post by Lakshman »

There is a cararNa missing here (which I added later):

nanda nanda vibhO mucukundAnandakara sunanandanaya nija lIlA
manda nIla vAsudEva kundasuma surucira mandahAsa virAjita
mandaradhara gOvinda sundara shubhAnE

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Post by venkatakailasam »

SwaATi TirunAL krtimAla-1947- compiled by Semmengudi Srinivasa Iyer with a forward by Sir CP Ramaswamy Iyer...PDF file.

http://www.mediafire.com/view/1hzm5scdb ... -1947-.pdf

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p-SWATHI 077-KVN--krupayA_palaya-cArukEsi-SWATHI...


http://www.mediafire.com/listen/o39au6u ... SWATHI.mp3

keerthi
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Vidushi T.S.Satyavathi speaks about the excellence of Swati Tirunal's songs here.

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Post by sweetsong »

Extremely rare and beautiful bhajan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak3MkEDogwk

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RSR
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May I know if Swathi Thirunaal composed any song in Malayaalam?

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Post by Pratyaksham Bala »

RSR wrote:May I know if Swathi Thirunaal composed any song in Malayaalam?
Yes, more than 60 in Malayalam.
http://www.swathithirunal.in/compo_language.htm#mal

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Pratyaksham Bala -> thanks for the information.

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Great writeup by PRince Rama Verma on Swati Tirunal , very articulate and building up a strong case for the terrific navarathri festival. Having said I have to respectfully disagree with Rama Vema when he says "So it would make sense to sing all the lines once and repeat the whole stanza rather than sing one line and repeat it again for second sangathi , which would make no sense at all.". Actually better solution is to DO BOTH and Not Either. Writeup in THe Hindu dated Oct 04,2019 in The Hindu. This is duplicate post of rama verma thread , I wanted this to also stay in ST thread.
https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/ ... 584591.ece

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.
Spreading Carnatic Music through movies - once again.

Bhogindra Sayinam by Sikkil Gurucharan in the Tamil movie 'Sarvam Thaalamayam'.
https://youtu.be/SyAqzteUtiM?t=1

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Swathi Thirunal

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Just checking: is the authorship of these two compositions accepted as this composers' own?
1. pālaya sadā in naḷinakānti
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cDVpUeIfreo
2.rāmacandra raghunandana in nīlāmbari
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bqh5Tw99_Cw

I understand two attributed to him, nityamaśrayē in rītigauḷa and japata japata in sindhubhairavi are credited to his maternal uncle, Iratyimman Thanpi.

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Re: Swathi Thirunal (songs unheard are sweeter by far ??!)

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Songs unheard are sweeter by far ?? to quote an english poet..

I feel that Carnatic performers over the years have NOT done justice to the majesty of Maharaja’s compositions.

The episode relating to "BhAvayAmi RaghurAmam" in sAveri needing to be heard in all its glory (and then seemingly becoming a rAgamalikA after that is already perhaps three-quarters of a century old)...setting aside all other sensitivities that may arise from my quoting this particular example, I want to make following observation....

The Maharaja and Tyagaraja (and I believe unlike Dikshitar or Syama Sastri) are the best examples of
uninhibited tone-poets unleashing a musical torrent of chaste words and ideas in multiple stanzas /charanams.

I feel that these tone-poets' vision at the point of creation is a direct channel to the source of nAda…the totality of this feeling is captured in the kritis they have brought forth…

In some ways the pancharatna aradhana is a nod to Tyagarajas massive output but ignores his other great and variegated kritis !

See Tyagarajas many-splendored arabhis or todis , just the tip of this iceberg, that have wilted into oblivion...
...ditto for Maharaja ...

Has anyone ever heard the other two charanams in the timeless “sArasAkSa paripAlayamAm”, other than the one that starts with “bhima sevya tava” ??

Has anyone ever heard the charanams beginning with “sakala kalAlaya shAradA himakara sadrsha”
Or “jyOtirmaya navahArAyita sajjyOti shatantra vibhUSitE” in the great Devi Navaratri SankarAbharanam Devi Jagatjanani..i doubt it….it is pretty much either the charanams starting with “VinApustaka dhArinI..” or occasionally “arunatarA dhara..”

Fortunately the GopAlaka PAhimAm revagupti (Maharaja would be immortal if this was his only kriti ! ) was so irresistible in the variety of its stanzas that in 200 plus years most self-respecting vidwans/vidushis have preserved all of them !!
here is MSS caressing this with her sweet voice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln0cewhgV70
How wonderfully Maharaja has a sprightly tillana right after waking up, no languid stretching in bed for him and revagupti unlike bhupalam forgets any pathos of the night that has passed !!

Same cannot be said for pAhi gopanandana bhushAvali (Once again, Maharaja would be immortal if this was his only kriti ! ) ..I could go on and on and on with examples…

Maybe the rise of instruments (and instrumentalists) is contributing to this dilution ?

We should properly pay homage to the composers inspiration as true rasikas and even (I believe) as performers. Even apart from the additional ideas captured in the words, the very usage of different words brings additional dimension to the music, in terms of inflections, gamakams, gait etc.

Perhaps the yearly festival to Maharaja should actively insist on performers/invitees exercising their musical training on these unheard charanams..?

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a follow-up to my previous post

[1] sArAsAksha paripAlayamAm- less heard charanam
quite by chance I found a fine effort which at minute marker 23 does the rarer charanam
"bhOgibhOga kalitAtma nivAsa vibhO .." of Maharajas masterpiece (one of them).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfvJzEzDhTk

ps.. The entire concert itself is very good quality, the humility and youth refreshing, as is the lack of narcissism

[2] along these lines ...ALL 3 stanzas are rendered of evergreen (and extensive) Dorakuna properly done in Bilahari
and not Kalyani
..the singer obviously an expert..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gInzSBR1p0

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Re: Swathi Thirunal (Nava Vidha Bhakti 9 kritis)

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The Nava vidha (9 ways) bhakti set of the Maharaja done effortlessly by an expert, who was leading female student of Semmangudi )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt991B1ZjR8

First one in Bhairavi leads to all the others...begada !, sahana ! bilahari etc..

can be compared to Devi Navaratri Bhairavi of Maharaja or his other spectacular (and extensive ) Bhairavis
chapalasampadaniha - pada varnam, chintayAmi te and about 3-4 other big ones !!!

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Re: Swathi Thirunal (Devi Navaratri Day 1 -2020)

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the Maharajas great vision of Devi (Day 1 of Navaratri)

we obviously need special prayers this year..no better way than the Devi Navaratri series of Maharaja

Day 1 Devi Jagatjanani in Shankarabharana
veena
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llGyZ_2gpQY

vocal 1

KNRS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW_FR67rIRI

vocal 2
MSS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFObZkF2RGs

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Re: Swathi Thirunal (Devi Navaratri Day 2 -2020)

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the Maharajas great vision of Devi (Day 2 of Navaratri)

Day 2 "pahimAm sri" in Kalyani

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1_USr-OpHs

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the Maharajas great vision of Devi (Day 3 of Navaratri)

Day 3 "devi pAvanE" in sAverI

MDR-TNK-UKS (who better)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWrtYWKfll8

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Re: Swathi Thirunal (Devi Navaratri Day 4 -2020)

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the Maharajas great vision of Devi (Day 4 of Navaratri)

Day 4 "bhArAti mAmava" in Todi

Alathur Bros.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFjRmmBgdiA
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Folks, there are beautiful videos being uploaded by IMPL of Vid. Amrutha Venkatesh singing the Navaratri kritis everyday
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_ ... 4984269895

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Re: Swathi Thirunal (Devi Navaratri Day 5 -2020)

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the Maharajas great vision of Devi (Day 5 of Navaratri)

Day 5 "janani mAmava" in Bhairavii

Trichur Bros.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSXW-6toRbA

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Re: Swathi Thirunal (Devi Navaratri Day 6 -2020)

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the Maharajas great vision of Devi (Day 6 of Navaratri)

Day 6 "saroruhAsanajAye !" in Kamavardhani

KVN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZe4qA5MZBA

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the Maharajas great vision of Devi (Day 7 of Navaratri)

Day 7 "janani pAHi sadA" in suddha sAverI

Radha-Jayalakshmi
https://youtu.be/7EmGFbH42A8

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the Maharajas great vision of Devi (Day 8 of Navaratri)

Day 8 "pAHi jananai satatam" in nAtakuranjI

a young vainika ! ( WARNING ! diabetes alert....too sweet !! WARNING ! )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtpfkDMdtcg

Bombay sisters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aiwSMa2NsY

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Re: Swathi Thirunal (Devi Navaratri Day 9 -2020)

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the Maharajas great vision of Devi (Day 9 of Navaratri)

Day 9 "pAHi parvata nandini" in Arabhi

a young vainika !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U81vYNV4bg

N Savita
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOuA5l-md-s

Akkarai sisters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWpfSXT3S4Q

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Re: Swathi Thirunal (the other Devi kritis)

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The few-other Devi kritis of the Maharaja

there are only a handful of other kritis (other than magnum opus Devi Navaratri set)
by Maharaja to the Devi...(mostly deshya ragas seen in the raga choice for the half-a-dozen or so kiritis)

kAnadA - mAmava sadA janani
Huseni - pAhimam brihannAyikE
Hamsanandi - pAhi jagat janani pAhimAm
Vachaspati - pAhi jagat janani santatam
KApi - vihara mAnasA rAmE
NAtakuranji - mAmava sadA varadE

maybe also

sAtura kAmini which I have heard very nicely done in yamunA kalyani
(although it is sometimes sung in Kalyani)

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some examples of Shiva kritis of Maharaja

There are few (all exceptional) kritis , maybe in all 10-12 only, by Maharaja to the Shiva deity....

the dancing shiva in Nrityati Nrityati in sankarabharana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7EG0Dzufj4

and in kedAram paramAnanda natana
(which seems to have been influenced by the Dikshitar kedAram !)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94vkyg_Ik7M

the waking shiva in pArvati nAyaka - bauli ! (fine example by SS !!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRd-OL9k5SY

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