Happy Krishna Jayanthi!

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 15 Aug 2006, 18:18

16th August is Krishna Jayanthi.

There are lots of songs on Lord Krishna ... some famous ones include:

Ganamurthy, Ganamurthy, Thyagaraja
Venugana, Kedaragowla, Thyagaraja
Elara krishna, Kambhoji, Thyagaraja
Santhanagopala, Khamas, Dikshitar
Sri Krishnam, Thodi, Dikshitar (but disputed)
Enna tavam, Kapi, Papanasam Sivan

Most krithis of Purandaradasa, Oothakadu Venkatsubbier and Narayana Theertha

kaapi · Post by **kaapi** » 15 Aug 2006, 19:05

Mohan,
enna tavam was composed by ambhujam krishna.

srkris · Post by **srkris** » 15 Aug 2006, 19:30

Uh??? No, it is by Sivan.

Here is one of the songs Mohan has listed above (Venugana Loluni). It is not one of the all-time best renditions, but it is by Chembai

http://rapidshare.de/files/29491479/Ven ... i.m4a.html

If you dont have iTunes player, you can use media player classic (http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/filepilot/win ... alt149.exe) to play m4a/mp4/aac files like the above.

kaapi · Post by **kaapi** » 15 Aug 2006, 19:40

srkris. Thanks. Mohan sorry for the "wrong correction".

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 15 Aug 2006, 22:26

guruvAyUr appanE appan- reetigowlai - Ambujam Krishna

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 15 Aug 2006, 23:58

Ambujam Krishna:

gAna mazhai pozhiginRAn kaNNAn--rAga mAlika
jagattinaik kAttiDum janArdanA--yamunA kalyANi
nI pOy azhaittu vADi--kApi
kaNNAniDAm eduttu sollaDi--rAga mAlikA
kaNDaduNDO vAn mugilE?--rAgamAlikA
enna solli azhaittAl--kAnaDa
aravinda pada malar nOgumO?--kApi

and many more...

Ecstacy · Post by **Ecstacy** » 16 Aug 2006, 09:42

Nanda Gopala Yamunakalyani Dikshitar

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 16 Aug 2006, 09:53

some unfamilair ones
http://rapidshare.de/files/29564385/bal ... varene.mp3
dooru maduvarane krishnayyana-bmk
http://rapidshare.de/files/29559950/som ... _ganam.mp3
krishna ganam-somu
http://rapidshare.de/files/29560909/kal ... AM-GNB.mp3
mohana krishna-kalyanraman
and some familiar

http://rapidshare.de/files/29559479/mlv ... hnayya.mp3
baro krishnayya-mlv
http://rapidshare.de/files/29561482/ned ... -KAMAS.mp3
santhanagopalam-nednuri

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 16 Aug 2006, 10:35

coolji,

vidurana manege sri krishna bandante--nanna manege krishna banda gAna koNDU...

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 16 Aug 2006, 13:38

http://rapidshare.de/files/29571311/23- ... na-Dkj.mp3
dkj-kandu kandu nee yenna
http://rapidshare.de/files/29575263/mlv.mp3
mlv-kelano haree thalano--aaneyu karedare adee moola bandanthe-yamanelli kanenendu ...
http://rapidshare.de/files/29577226/Sun ... Kishan.mp3
saigal ..
http://rapidshare.de/files/29578308/KC_DEY.MP3
kc dey singing -panghat pe kanhayya ...

arasi...
ravi started the whole thing ..
i will stop only when he sings mangalam !!

:D

Vocalist · Post by **Vocalist** » 16 Aug 2006, 14:58

Hopefully no Mangalams for a while in that case...

To add to the Ambujam krishna list:
Kanna Vaa-Ragamalika (though also sung in Maduvanthi)

The list of Oothukkadu's & Purandaradasar's are endless.

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 17 Aug 2006, 07:12

anup jalota celebrates .. in his own style.
the doordarshan track
http://rapidshare.de/files/29632855/ANUPJALOTA.MPG
(thank God I had the sense to record these two decades ago.One look at what TV has to offer to us these days and I shudder...)

the mp3 track
deleted(since the same has been sung in a commercial tape too),coolk

venkatpv · Post by **venkatpv** » 17 Aug 2006, 07:58

IMHO, the benchmark!!

http://rapidshare.de/files/29686672/02_ ... a.mp3.html

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 17 Aug 2006, 08:35

venkatp,

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 17 Aug 2006, 08:51

TNS tuned this song as a rAga mAlikA when Ambujam Krishna was with us.
Is it necessary to change the ragA (s) of a contemporary composition? I don't know. After all, both the composer and the one who tuned the song would have agreed on it, don't you think?

Suji Ram · Post by **Suji Ram** » 17 Aug 2006, 12:09

I am presenting OVK's swAgatam krSNA on violin learnt for Gokulaashtami..

http://rapidshare.de/files/29700358/swA ... A.mp3.html

The version is that of my aunt which I heard as a kid. corrections welcome!

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 17 Aug 2006, 14:14

I close my contribution with

two lovely meera bhajans

http://rapidshare.de/files/29700439/Kab ... _Kedar.mp3
http://rapidshare.de/files/29707960/vee ... -MEERA.mp3

Vocalist · Post by **Vocalist** » 17 Aug 2006, 15:04

arasi, I've heard both S.Kalyanaraman & Bombay Jayashree sing it in maduvanthi (though I prefer the popular rAgamAlikA)

I'm guessing Bombay Jayashree added Kalyanaraman's version to her repertoire. I wonder whether Kalyanaraman tuned it himself back then or it was tuned even before his time (perhaps it was tuned at the same time as TNS did)

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 17 Aug 2006, 21:37

Arasi,
I assume this is a composition by Ambujam Krishna, right? The reason I ask is that in a commercial recording (in madhuvantI) of this song, the composer is identified as Chitra Balraj...I know that much of the information on the inlay-cards is not worth the paper it is printed on, but I was very curious. Was this then re-tuned in madhuvantI later?
Ravi

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 18 Aug 2006, 20:59

Ravi,
Could it be that Chitra Balraj has another song starting with the same words?
Or, is it one of those inlay card mess ups, as you point out? It is TNS's tune for Ambujam Krishna's composition in kApi, sAma, vasanta, nIlAmbari, surati.
Our Lakshman's book lists a kaNNA vA vA by Bangalore Mukund in sri ranjani and a kaNNA kaNNA too, by him.
There is a N.S.Chidambaram's composition kaNNA kaNNA enRu.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 18 Aug 2006, 21:42

vocalist,
I do not know about the madhuvanti version. Kalyanaraman I hear has sung 'kaNDa nAL mudal' about vElan in madhuvanti (not Ambujam Krishna's).

Rigapada · Post by **Rigapada** » 16 Sep 2006, 18:01

srkris wrote:Uh??? No, it is by Sivan.

Here is one of the songs Mohan has listed above (Venugana Loluni). It is not one of the all-time best renditions, but it is by Chembai

http://rapidshare.de/files/29491479/Ven ... i.m4a.html

If you dont have iTunes player, you can use media player classic (http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/filepilot/win ... alt149.exe) to play m4a/mp4/aac files like the above.

m4a, mp4 and aac songs as above can be played in Winamp natively.
--Rigapada

srkris · Post by **srkris** » 16 Sep 2006, 19:51

Thanks Rigapada. Is it a coincidence that Sri Vaishnavas observe Janmashtami today, and you chose to revive this thread by responding on the same day?

Rigapada · Post by **Rigapada** » 17 Sep 2006, 16:52

Thank you, srkris.
In the music program organised on Krishnastami, one song attracted me very much. Hope all of you will like it.

http://rapidshare.de/files/33427516/Jay ... h.mp3.html

--Rigapada

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 12 Aug 2009, 19:10

Best wishes for Krishna Jayanthi 2009!

VK RAMAN · Post by **VK RAMAN** » 12 Aug 2009, 19:16

http://www.acidplanet.com/components/em ... 665&T=8739 - nanda nandana bhakta chandana

VK RAMAN · Post by **VK RAMAN** » 12 Aug 2009, 19:19

http://www.acidplanet.com/components/em ... 021&T=8954 radhika jeevana

srinivasrgvn · Post by **srinivasrgvn** » 13 Aug 2009, 07:10

srinivasrgvn · Post by **srinivasrgvn** » 13 Aug 2009, 07:58

visaalam · Post by **visaalam** » 13 Aug 2009, 12:35

srinivasrgvn wrote:As usual, Krishna Jayanthi is not today, for us Vaishnavites. This occurs most of the times and people get totally confused when we lay footsteps weeks after the first janmAshtami. They are shocked to see us celebrating it after everything is over and then slowly, they realize that we are srIvaishnavAs! =)

While Vaishnavites celebrate the birth thithi for Rama, they celebrate the birth star for Krishna.
Smarthas celebrate birth thithi for both Rama and Krishna.

That is the difference.

VK RAMAN · Post by **VK RAMAN** » 13 Aug 2009, 19:58

Wyy no body is talking about murukku, cheedai, avil, veNNai etc which are very conspicuous part of KrishNa jayanthi? bhOjayanapriyas!

Suji Ram · Post by **Suji Ram** » 13 Aug 2009, 22:08

VK RAMAN wrote:Wyy no body is talking about murukku, cheedai, avil, veNNai etc which are very conspicuous part of KrishNa jayanthi? bhOjayanapriyas!

We celebrate on weekends here- cIDai will have to wait until Saturday
But for a change I decided to make it today this year instead of dinner

VK RAMAN · Post by **VK RAMAN** » 14 Aug 2009, 03:59

We will salivate when you dine today!

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 14 Aug 2009, 10:06

Had my full dose of sweet and savoury cheedai as well as Sweet avul

visaalam · Post by **visaalam** » 14 Aug 2009, 11:48

Had my uppu cheedai, vella cheedai, murukku, thattai and seeppi (anyone heard of that ??) along with theratti paal and paal payasam. A full course. Thanks to Lord Krishna

srinivasrgvn · Post by **srinivasrgvn** » 14 Aug 2009, 17:03

smala · Post by **smala** » 18 Aug 2009, 09:56

visaalam wrote:Had my uppu cheedai, vella cheedai, murukku, thattai and seeppi (anyone heard of that ??) along with theratti paal and paal payasam. A full course. Thanks to Lord Krishna

Did you make all that living in the U.S.? I envy you. Chellithana aval (vella aval with fresh thengai and ghee) and butter was my humble offering. Haven't had cheedai in years -- wish I could get some in the mail !

smala · Post by **smala** » 18 Aug 2009, 09:58

kAkai chiragunilE is great song for janmastami.........

radhastami coming up in less than two weeks.

gowri narayanan · Post by **gowri narayanan** » 18 Aug 2009, 13:40

my vella cheedai came out very well this time,karakara.uppu cheedai was a disappointment!appam,thenkuzhal and the 2 varieties of cheedais , aval with sugar and milk were offered to our krishna.

VK RAMAN · Post by **VK RAMAN** » 18 Aug 2009, 18:08

Now a days I think the local U.S India stores carry uppu cheedai, but not of the home made quality!

smala · Post by **smala** » 18 Aug 2009, 22:41

VK RAMAN wrote:Now a days I think the local U.S India stores carry uppu cheedai, but not of the home made quality!

It guess it depends on where in the U.S -- I didn't see any -- but then like you said homemade (we made ours in virgin fresh pressed coconut oil, with Coimbatore vennai) in the good old days) is simply the best ...

Here are two videos - slightly different recipes (I love the one with lots of coconut but the other is good too)......................http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya5-v7fTK7E.............http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NkSQPa9IAk

HarishankarK · Post by **HarishankarK** » 21 Aug 2009, 13:44

Vocalist wrote:arasi, I've heard both S.Kalyanaraman & Bombay Jayashree sing it in maduvanthi (though I prefer the popular rAgamAlikA)

I'm guessing Bombay Jayashree added Kalyanaraman's version to her repertoire. I wonder whether Kalyanaraman tuned it himself back then or it was tuned even before his time (perhaps it was tuned at the same time as TNS did)

I have heard both - these are 2 different compositions:
a. Bombay Jayashree sings - Kanna Vaa Mani Vaa - kaathirukkum yennai ....
whereas
b. Ambujam Krishna's composition goes like Kanna vaa Mani vanna vaa - kamala padham vaiththu.....

Guess Ambujam Krishna's composition has multiple charanams whereas the one sung by Bombay Jayashree (dunno whether Chitra Balraj is composer or not) has only 1 charnam.

sindhu · Post by **sindhu** » 21 Aug 2009, 15:42

gowri m'm

vella cheedai came out very well this time,karakara ... k(h)araharapriya(i)

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 21 Aug 2009, 19:11

Harishankar,
Ambujam Krishna's rAga mAlikai has the following rAgams:
kApi, sAma, vasanthA, nIlAmbari and surati.

gowri narayanan · Post by **gowri narayanan** » 21 Aug 2009, 21:41

Yes I do love kharaharapriya.Once in the navarathri mandapam KVN was singing satatam taavaka pada sevanam.The way he sang neraval at" mamahrudi vasa anisham madhusudana showre " made me cry.So much artha bhava pushti it had ,soaked in kharaharapriya.

annapoorne · Post by **annapoorne** » 07 Sep 2009, 19:02

Radha and Krishna

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49039993@N00/?saved=1

srinivasrgvn · Post by **srinivasrgvn** » 12 Sep 2009, 17:58

VK RAMAN · Post by **VK RAMAN** » 12 Sep 2009, 19:47

May Lord Krishna Bless every one. Here are my humble renditions:
Meghashyaamam
http://www.acidplanet.com/components/em ... 980&T=1064

shaataakaaram
http://www.acidplanet.com/components/em ... 980&T=1064

gobilalitha · Post by **gobilalitha** » 13 Sep 2009, 06:58

priyaram78, very happy krisnajayanthi(sorry, I omitted h). but that's how North Indians spell the Lord's name . gobilalitha

priyaram78 · Post by **priyaram78** » 13 Sep 2009, 20:10

Thanks mr.Gobilalitha. my son's first krishna jayanthi and so dressed him up as sri krishna and listened to many carnatic songs on krishna.