Need for sahityam

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Rishabh V.
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Need for sahityam

Post by Rishabh V. »

Can someone please help me out with the lyrics of the song Meenakshi Kalyanam in raagamalika khanda chapu talam (sometimes rendered in adi talam as well)...
The starting of the song is something like this:
Poomanakkum paamanakkum pugazhmanakkum madhuraile then manakkum thirumanata konam kondal meenakshi devi vandal...

Lakshman
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Is an audio clip available?

kmrasika
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Post by kmrasika »

I gave a try to transcribe by listening to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmzlbDGboNM.

@Pratyaksham Bala or @rshankar , could you correct? @rshankar : Could you give the meaning? This seems a particular form of poetry-the first stanza seems to be about smells, second fame, third colours, etc.

pūmaṇakkum pāmaṇakkum pugaḻmaṇakkum maduraiyilē
tēnmaṇakkum tirumaṇattil
kōlam koṇḍāḷ mīnākṣi tēril vandāḷ

caṅgam vaitta pāṇḍiyargaḷ
tamiḻ vaḷartta madurayilē
tenṟal acaintu varuvatuppōl
vandu cenṟāḷ mīnākṣi-pandal vandāḷ-
maṇappandal vandāḷ

paccai vaṇṇa mēniyilē pavaḻa vaṇṇa paṭṭututti
cekka civanda cōkkaraiyē tēril vandāḷ mīnākṣi tērilvandāḷ

kālil kaṇtai kalakalakka kaivalaigaḷ caracarakka
pālum paḻamum parugiḍavē pakkam vandāḷ
mīnākṣi veṭkam koṇḍāḷ

tōlil paiṅgiḷi tūkkivara 
cundarar kai paṟṟivara
mēḍai cuṟṟi valam varavē
mella ciṟittāl mīnakṣi-muttu teṟittāl

aṇṇan kaṇṇan nīrpārkka 
aḻaku maṇṇan mālaiyiḍa 
aṅkayarkaṇ maṅgaiyarkku
maṅgaḷaṅgaḷ āḍiḍuvōm 
makimai colli pāḍiḍuvōm-mīnakṣi

rshankar
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Post by rshankar »

Will certainly try my hand at it! It’s beautiful....

Rishabh V.
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Post by Rishabh V. »

Thank you for the quick replies...
Here is another link having more of music, rendered in kalakshetra style:

https://youtu.be/LQ58MUNfu4M

At 1:39:37

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