Any CM kritis on Hayagreevan?

ragam-talam · Post by **ragam-talam** » 29 Jun 2009, 21:26

Shri DA Joseph in this clip mentions that Hayagreevan is the guru to Brahma and Saraswathi, hence holds a very important position: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Ku66AW-c0

Are there any CM kritis on Hayagreevan? I have not heard of any so far.

Btw, the other videos of Shri DA Joseph on youtube are also very informative.
Part 2 talks about the importance of pranayama for daily life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmNz-Ah4qFU

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 30 Jun 2009, 00:12

VEdAnta dESikan's lines from his hayagrIva stOtram is taken up as an opener by a few vocalists: GnAnAnanda mayam dEvam nirmala spaTikAkrutim AdhAram sarva vidyAnAm hayagrIvam upAsmahE as SlOkam in the same rAgam of the first song.
I do not know if anything else exists. Wonder if Ambujam Krishna has composed one.

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 30 Jun 2009, 00:17

There is no reference to hayagrIva in any of Ambujam Krishna's songs.
There is one in a Dikshitar song:

simhAsana sthitE. rAgamAlikA. rUpaka tALA.

(rAga: saurASTra)
P: sihmAsanasthitE sundara guruguha nuta lalitE cidAnandanAthOham vandEham vandEham
(rAga: vasanta)
A: brahmAdi sakala dEvatArAdhita padayugaLE parashurAma parama bhAgavata pramukhOpAsita bagaLE
(rAga: suraTi)
C1: kamalEshanuta mangalE kavijana nata mangaLE mantriNI daNDinI samUhAdi mangaLE
(rAga: madhyamAvati)
2: hayagrIva kumbhajAdi pUjita nitya mangaLE niratishaya shubha mangaLE navanava vidha mangaLE

ragam-talam · Post by **ragam-talam** » 30 Jun 2009, 00:40

Thank you, Lakshman-ji. Has anyone sung this kriti?

Arasi - Thanks. Shri Joseph does mention the Vedanta Desikan verses in the video clip I referred to.

VK RAMAN · Post by **VK RAMAN** » 30 Jun 2009, 01:56

narayana navatharam hayagrivA -

http://www.acidplanet.com/components/em ... 635&T=2789

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 30 Jun 2009, 02:47

simhAsanasthitE is available at sangeethapriyA.org site, in Murthy's folder concert # 31 by Sanjay Subramaniam.

ragam-talam · Post by **ragam-talam** » 30 Jun 2009, 03:32

Lakshman-ji, I assume you are talking about this location:
http://www.sangeethamshare.org/murthy/0 ... 0.12.2006/

None of the files were downloadable! Not sure if there's some setting required to enable downloading.

bilahari · Post by **bilahari** » 30 Jun 2009, 03:37

R-T, you cannot use download manager or right click and "save target as" anymore to download from Sangeethapriya. You have to left-click on the link, type in the CAPTCHA words that pop up in a different window, and then save it directly to the target folder.

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 30 Jun 2009, 03:43

They told me that if you have Quicktime installed on your PC, the Captcha method won't work either.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 30 Jun 2009, 04:00

I have quicktime installed on my PC and the CAPTCHA works fine for me. It should not have anything to do with quicktime if you are simply saving the file. One other possibility is for whatever reason if quicktime is your default player for mp3, may be the problem occurs. ( I do not know really, I am just speculating ). It is easy to test it out, just reassing another player like vlc player as your default player for .mp3 files.

EDIT: I just tested it by changing my default player to quicktime. It still worked OK for me. So that it is not it.

rrao13 · Post by **rrao13** » 30 Jun 2009, 04:29

I dont know if by "Hayagreevan" you are referring to Lord Hayagriva, an avatara of ShrimanNarayana. He is represented as a Horse faced Lord.
Per Maadhva Siddhanta, Hayavadana is the form of the Lord and several compositions of Shri Vaadirajaru refer to This form. In fact, Shri Vaadiraaja teertha's ankita is Hayavadana. A famous composition that comes to my mind is "Kudhire Bandide" and you can find renderings of this song by Shri Vidyabhushana and Shrimathi M.S. Sheela, and I am sure that the Rudrapttinam brothers would have sung it as well.
BTW, Hayagriva, per Maadhva Siddhnatha refers to the unique Prasaada made as an offering to Lord Hayavadana.

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 30 Jun 2009, 11:07

Smt. Kalpakam Swaminathan renders 'simhAsanastitE' quite frequently in her concerts.

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 30 Jun 2009, 11:20

Some information about Sri Hayagreeva is available at http://www.ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archi ... /0166.html
Although considered as an avataram of Lord Vishnu, Hayagreeva is not considered as one of the dasavatarams. However, there is a reference in the opening line of Swati Tirunal's dasavataram piece:

kamalAjAsyAhritA nigamarASi hayagrIvA damana mInaSArIra mAmavodAra

keerthi · Post by **keerthi** » 30 Jun 2009, 11:49

mohan wrote: Although considered as an avataram of Lord Vishnu, Hayagreeva is not considered as one of the dasavatarams. However, there is a reference in the opening line of Swati Tirunal's dasavataram piece:

kamalAjAsyAhritA nigamarASi hayagrIvA damana mInaSArIra mAmavodAra

the hayagrIva referred to in the above ragamalika is a horse-faced demon who stole the vEda, and was killed by the MatsyamUrti of ViSNu.. It isn't a reference to the avatAra..

The concept of the ten AvatAra-s as a set is relatively new, and has been around for only some six hundred years.. the bhAgavata says there are infinite avatAra-s and gives the stories of atleast 24? of them including hamsa, nArada, vyAsa,kapila, hayagrIva, nara-nArAyaNa, yagna-purusha and some interesting ones like Bouddha and RSabhadEva - the first tIrthankara..

In this context, I am reminded of a funny story :

when I visited friends, who had just got a baby, and asked them what name they had in mind; they said 'Kapila'..

'Ah! after the great sage, father of sAnkhya philosophy..!Wonderful! ' I remarked..

'No,no!' they vehemently refused..'After the great cricketer!'

I think V.V.srivatsa has a krti on hayagrIva..

coolkapali · Post by **coolkapali** » 30 Jun 2009, 12:01

Lakshmanji, that link is extremely useful. Thanks. I am a devotee of Shri Deekshithar.

munirao2001 · Post by **munirao2001** » 30 Jun 2009, 12:57

Ragam-Talam,
Compositions on Hayagriva can be found in Dasarapadas. Saint and prominent Haridasa, Vadiraja has composed songs on Hayagriva.

munirao2001

srinivasrgvn · Post by **srinivasrgvn** » 30 Jun 2009, 18:27

keerthi wrote: In this context, I am reminded of a funny story :

when I visited friends, who had just got a baby, and asked them what name they had in mind; they said 'Kapila'..

'Ah! after the great sage, father of sAnkhya philosophy..!Wonderful! ' I remarked..

'No,no!' they vehemently refused..'After the great cricketer!'

Good one!

ragam-talam · Post by **ragam-talam** » 30 Jun 2009, 21:35

rrao13 wrote:I dont know if by "Hayagreevan" you are referring to Lord Hayagriva, an avatara of ShrimanNarayana. He is represented as a Horse faced Lord.

I believe I am referring to the same one.
In the video clip of DA Joseph that I cited earlier, he mentions that Hayagreeva doesn't get the importance he deserves in our households. I have not even seen a picture or moorthi of Hayagreeva as yet.
Or is the focus Shri Joseph places on Hayagreeva a bit misplaced? I would have thought if he was such an important deity, we would have had more kritis in his praise.

ragam-talam · Post by **ragam-talam** » 30 Jun 2009, 21:37

munirao2001 wrote:Compositions on Hayagriva can be found in Dasarapadas. Saint and prominent Haridasa, Vadiraja has composed songs on Hayagriva.

Lakshman-ji, do you have any listings available of these?

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 30 Jun 2009, 21:41

No I don't.

sridhar_ranga · Post by **sridhar_ranga** » 30 Jun 2009, 22:12

If L-ji's Tamil kriti archive is all-digital, running a search for phrases like "pari muganE", "pari mugap perumAnE", etc. might unearth kriti(s) on hayavadana, if any! (pari = horse.)

Vaguely remember hearing a pre-concert invocation song by a child containing such a phrase at a Nanganallur temple years ago. Of course alternate spellings for mugam/mugan with kh,k,gh in place of g should be tried! What I heard could have just been a Slokam in Tamil and not a Carnatic composition.

sridhar_ranga · Post by **sridhar_ranga** » 30 Jun 2009, 22:29

ragam-talam wrote: I would have thought if he was such an important deity, we would have had more kritis in his praise.

Just my pet theory: HayagrIva is popular mainly among followers of vEdAnta dEsikan and, as I understand from Shri RRao's post, followers of mAdhvAchArya. But advaitins rule the carnatic composing world

ragam-talam · Post by **ragam-talam** » 01 Jul 2009, 01:49

Sridhar, your theory is a plausible one.
Came across the following on the net:

And a write-up on Hayagriva: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayagriva
"There is no other auspiciousness which is greater than Hayagrivan. There is nothing more sacred than Sri Hayagrivan to destroy our accumulated sins. There is no God superior to Hayagrivan. There is no one who grieves after performing Saranagathi at the sacred feet of Hayagrivan.

He is called as Veda Moorthy. He is the Akararthan. He protects all creatures. He who taught knowledge to Goddess Saraswati. Without his grace, we cannot obtain good knowledge."

srinivasrgvn · Post by **srinivasrgvn** » 01 Jul 2009, 05:53

Well, it is quite sad to see that Lord Hayagreeva is unknown to many of you here. He is one of the most important deities for us Vaishnavites and writing an examination/starting any new activity is incomplete without going to a Hayagreevar temple. He is the god for education and he is the most superior. He is an avathara of Sriman Narayana himself. Although not one of the dashAvathAram, hayagrIvar is considered very holy and powerful. As mentioned by keerthi, there is no limit to the number of avathArAs that the Lord can take/has taken.

srinivasrgvn · Post by **srinivasrgvn** » 01 Jul 2009, 05:56

mohan wrote:
kamalAjAsyAhritA nigamarASi hayagrIvA damana mInaSArIra mAmavodAra

Well, as keerthi said, this above portion refers to a demon who stole the vEdAs.
It is quite contrasting to notice that Lord Hayagreeva was actually the protector of the vEdas!!
(Source: wikipedia) "Hayagriva is celebrated in the Puranas for rescuing the Vedas from the demons Madhu and Kaitabha and teaching them again to Brahma."