Just in time for Gowri & Ganapati festivals 2010

[ramakriya]

Wishing all rasikas a happy time during the festivals.

Here are links to couple of musical posts:

Vatapi Ganaptim Bhajeham - A little bit of history about this composition, with some nice pictures: http://neelanjana.wordpress.com/2010/09 ... -bhajeham/

Gouri Giriraja Kumari - This post is in Kannada. Even if you can't read Kannada, there is some nice music to listen to! : http://hamsanada.blogspot.com/2010/09/blog-post_09.html

(Thanks to 'Vainika' for the embedded video)

-Ramakriya

[csuresh]

Chalukya king ruling from Badami (then called Vatapi), Pulikeshi II invaded Pallava kingdom. In retaliation, in 643 AD, Pallava king Mahendra Varma invaded the Chalukya kingdom and laid seize on the Chalukya capitaland defeated Pulikeshi. During that time, a general of Pallava army by name Parnjyoti (also known as Siruttondan) took away the Ganapati idol from the temple atop the fort in Vatapi, and installed it in his hometown of Tiruchchengattangudi

The above information is partially wrong.It was "Narasimha Varma Pallava"(also called as "Maamalla") who invaded vatapi and defeated ""Pulekesi" to take revenge of his father's defeat.
"Paranjothi" his general took this"ganesha"idol and installed in his native village.
"Paranjothi" later become saiva saint"siruthondar" and he is one among the 63 nayanmars(saiva saints)
All tamil readers are familiar of the historical novel"sivakamiyin sabatham" of "kalki"
The above incidents are part of the novel.
The famous "mamallapuram" near chennai was completed during the time of"Narasimha Varma" so it was called as "Mamallapuram""

[ramakriya]

Thanks csuresh. I'll fix the name.

-Ramakriya

[venkatakailasam]

Nayakam Vinayakam-A song composed by His Holiness Sri Ganapati Sachchidananda Swamiji canbe listened at :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dxzq_wZRGs

Lyrics as under:

Nāyakam vināyakam
Raga : varāli tala : ādi (thisragathi) nāyakam vināyakam sarva siddhi dhāyakam mudghalādhi sēvitham bhajēmatham ganēshwaram sundharam sidhhi buddhi sundarēsha nandanam bhaktha bhandha mōchanam sarpa sūtra bhandhanam ...nāyakam vināyakam mūshika vāhanam sakala lōka veekshanam arka rūpa dhārinam ādhi shaktyā varanam ...nāyakam vināyakam raktha varna rūpinam viraktha loka bhāvitham ātma vidyā dhārinam nanda sachchidānandanam ...nāyakam vināyakam
venkatakailasam